Topics regarding Inverted Pyramids Of Doom
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Here is yet another one...
Single Storage node and two compute nodes.
@scottalanmiller is already on the topic.
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There was another one this morning that I need to track down the link for. It was three computer nodes on a single NetApp FAS2020, which is a decent small NAS and far better than what most people use for these things in an SMB, but still not what you would hope to see. But the OP, in that case, came at it from the fear of what he had, not that he thought that it was a good idea.
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@Garyw provided one today, very good one from a software coupling perspective:
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Don't have the details but yet another lost MSA / DotHill SAN where the controllers did nothing to protect them:
http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1309837-desperate-lost-config-on-msa-2012i
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Currently looking for a "Shared Storage" on the cheap to replace his Synology that has 3 hosts and 40VMs attached to it.
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@brianlittlejohn said:
Currently looking for a "Shared Storage" on the cheap to replace his Synology that has 3 hosts and 40VMs attached to it.
Why is it always these setups that use VMware?
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@johnhooks Because that is the name that they know... at least for Virtualization.
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@johnhooks said:
@brianlittlejohn said:
Currently looking for a "Shared Storage" on the cheap to replace his Synology that has 3 hosts and 40VMs attached to it.
Why is it always these setups that use VMware?
That is how "HA" is sold by storage vendors, VMWare with a SAN.
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@brianlittlejohn said:
@johnhooks said:
@brianlittlejohn said:
Currently looking for a "Shared Storage" on the cheap to replace his Synology that has 3 hosts and 40VMs attached to it.
Why is it always these setups that use VMware?
That is how "HA" is sold by storage vendors, VMWare with a SAN.
Where do places draw the line between and IT professional and someone who sets something up that a vendor told them about?
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@johnhooks said:
@brianlittlejohn said:
@johnhooks said:
@brianlittlejohn said:
Currently looking for a "Shared Storage" on the cheap to replace his Synology that has 3 hosts and 40VMs attached to it.
Why is it always these setups that use VMware?
That is how "HA" is sold by storage vendors, VMWare with a SAN.
Where do places draw the line between and IT professional and someone who sets something up that a vendor told them about?
They don't... most places think they are one in the same.
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@johnhooks said:
@brianlittlejohn said:
Currently looking for a "Shared Storage" on the cheap to replace his Synology that has 3 hosts and 40VMs attached to it.
Why is it always these setups that use VMware?
When someone is being guided by salesmen, the factors will remain the same. VMware is what makes someone money, as is selling HA features and SANs. The thing that makes someone try to sell one piece makes them try to sell all of them. All part of the same "being taken advantage of by sales people".
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@johnhooks said:
@brianlittlejohn said:
@johnhooks said:
@brianlittlejohn said:
Currently looking for a "Shared Storage" on the cheap to replace his Synology that has 3 hosts and 40VMs attached to it.
Why is it always these setups that use VMware?
That is how "HA" is sold by storage vendors, VMWare with a SAN.
Where do places draw the line between and IT professional and someone who sets something up that a vendor told them about?
I've been wondering about this as well. There are a LOT of people claiming to be IT people that are really just "IT buyers" who can't even tell when they are buying something reasonable or not.
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So they're using a DS1815+ for 3 servers to host 40 VMs. Then they say something like this..
"It also has some serious iscsi network performance issues and it seems Synology just isn't taking the business sector serious enough with their roadmap."
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yeah, he has no idea what he is doing.... needs all these features today and is going to give them up someday when he goes to NetApp.
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@johnhooks said:
So they're using a DS1815+ for 3 servers to host 40 VMs. Then they say something like this..
"It also has some serious iscsi network performance issues and it seems Synology just isn't taking the business sector serious enough with their roadmap."
Wait... why would you use iSCSI... doesn't VMWare recommend NFS for shared storage?
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Indeed BOTH VMware and Synology suggest NFS!!
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Not that I am saying that shared storage is the right solution here but if you are going to do bad things you may as well do them right.
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yeah, bad setup of a bad design.
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