VMware replacement

[jst-acc]

Hi Guys and Girls,

We don't like where vmware is going with the Broadcom. So we are looking for replacement.
I think proxmox is great solution the only problem we have is the storage.
In my opinion this is the time to have a good solution for this. And you will takeover the world.

A normal vmware environment has a central storage (san) and has luns on local machines. So the machines are only compute.
The storage in vmware is VMFS, this storage can write and read from a lun on all machines in a vmware cluster.

I want to replace vmware with something else, I am not searching for opensource and are willing to pay but there is no alternative.
Often I see Ceph, wat a cool storage system is. But that is not the solution.
I was looking at GF2, wat looks great, but is not supported.

So my question is, I have a (big)SAN and lot of compute nodes, what is the best solution?

 

[itNGO]

Use your SAN like before and connect your Proxmox-Nodes to ist... it's just another LVM then, which can be shared....
To check for compatibility, what SAN are you currently using?

 

[jst-acc]

I have Pure store and dell powerstorage and more dell stuff.

 

[itNGO]

I have Pure store and dell powerstorage and more dell stuff.

Have a look here:
https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/proxmox-dell-powerstore.145414/

Basically, create new Volumes on your Powerstorage, map them to your PVE-Nodes, which need a local boot-drive and format the LUNs LVM thick. (Thin has issues with powerstorage and does not support snapshots) and you are good to go for migration-tests...

I guess Pure Store should be the same.....

 

[jst-acc]

Cool I will test it