Greetings:
Are any of your (The Planet) customers using the Cloud Storage you offer as part of a VMWare, XenServer, or Virtual Iron cluster where the Cloud Storage/SAN allows for live migration, live recovery, etc?
If so, do you have network diagrams et all along with case studies for how that is working for them as well as The Planet?
Thank you.
Full Version: Cloud Storage - SAN questions
Are you talking about vSphere?
I don't know how ESX can link to the Cloud storage TP offers.
You need an iSCSI connection with at least a 1 gbit switch (Cisco) to a SAN to have reliable SAN storage solution.
My extent of VMware is a few PE R900 servers connected via redundant 2960G Cisco's to an Equallogic SAN.
I don't know how ESX can link to the Cloud storage TP offers.
You need an iSCSI connection with at least a 1 gbit switch (Cisco) to a SAN to have reliable SAN storage solution.
My extent of VMware is a few PE R900 servers connected via redundant 2960G Cisco's to an Equallogic SAN.
QUOTE (dynamicnet @ May 27 2009, 06:20 AM) 
Greetings:
Are any of your (The Planet) customers using the Cloud Storage you offer as part of a VMWare, XenServer, or Virtual Iron cluster where the Cloud Storage/SAN allows for live migration, live recovery, etc?
If so, do you have network diagrams et all along with case studies for how that is working for them as well as The Planet?
Thank you.
Are any of your (The Planet) customers using the Cloud Storage you offer as part of a VMWare, XenServer, or Virtual Iron cluster where the Cloud Storage/SAN allows for live migration, live recovery, etc?
If so, do you have network diagrams et all along with case studies for how that is working for them as well as The Planet?
Thank you.
How were you planning to use CloudNAS for live migration/restoration of VMs?
QUOTE (ajz4221 @ May 27 2009, 05:47 PM)
Are you talking about vSphere?
I don't know how ESX can link to the Cloud storage TP offers.
You need an iSCSI connection with at least a 1 gbit switch (Cisco) to a SAN to have reliable SAN storage solution.
My extent of VMware is a few PE R900 servers connected via redundant 2960G Cisco's to an Equallogic SAN.
I don't know how ESX can link to the Cloud storage TP offers.
You need an iSCSI connection with at least a 1 gbit switch (Cisco) to a SAN to have reliable SAN storage solution.
My extent of VMware is a few PE R900 servers connected via redundant 2960G Cisco's to an Equallogic SAN.
It really depends on what the goal is here. I'm not sure it is the right product for what dynamicnet is trying to do. But it should work on ESX if you install it in each VM, or on the Host itself. It would definitely be interesting to see how well it would perform in this condition.
iSCSI isn't necessary to use cloudNAS. It uses a fuse file system to connect directly to the local Planet-1 node. So essentially you get a mount point to shovel data into.
http://www.theplanet.com/cloud-storage
Interesting...
I honestly don't see the point of it.... elaboration or example?
Greetings James:
I'm just looking into how The Planet's offering can be best utilized.
If it could be used for iSCI, then it could be an economical foundation for VMWare, Virtual Iron, XenServer in terms of recovery, migration (almost all solid virtualization software now allows for automated migration of vps nodes between physical servers using a SAN/NAS).
Thank you.
QUOTE (James Jhurani @ May 29 2009, 04:58 AM)
How were you planning to use CloudNAS for live migration/restoration of VMs?
I'm just looking into how The Planet's offering can be best utilized.
If it could be used for iSCI, then it could be an economical foundation for VMWare, Virtual Iron, XenServer in terms of recovery, migration (almost all solid virtualization software now allows for automated migration of vps nodes between physical servers using a SAN/NAS).
Thank you.
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