if you where to point a 3rd ESX host to the VSAN what ip would you point it to? The primary or the # 1 vsan?

so what happens when #1 dies #2 picks up Vsan #1s ip? And all is good

What about commercial usage. I think, that this is ideal solution for small bussines - two ESX servers with local storage, ESX standard + VC Foundation. HA solution for great price.

Do you offer commercial support for XVS or do you suggest this appliance only for testing purposes?

Did anybody test complete recovery of vSAN? I try import new XVS appliance, add fresh disk, but can´t sync data from working node to new installed??

Thanks

I send you email about support. I will test it once more. Thank you.

I'm trying to understanding how this works... Couple questions.

If I have my ESX host with a 72GB RAID 1 volume (hosting ESX OS and a small Datastore1) and a 280GB RAID 5 volume, I'm assuming I would want to setup the SAN VM on my small Datastore1. I'd then create an additional hard disk for the SAN VM of, for example, 250GB. I'd want this 250GB hard disk to be located on my RAID5 volume. But, I'm not sure I understand this correctly when I read your MS Word document (it mentions using the "Store with virtual machine" option when adding the 2nd disk). I think I'm a bit confused as I never setup a VM with indepedent disks either and maybe that's where I'm confused. Trying to grasp this...

Also, about the replication feature between local disks on each ESX host... If my production VM are stored in the LUN off the SAN VM, and the SAN VM is continuously replicating the data from one ESX DAS to the other ESX DAS, how does this effect performance? Wouldn't this replication also hinder the performance of my VMs? (this isn't an Extravirt question really, just a general question about this kind of technology).

JR

I can't seem to figure this out. I'm trying to test this but am running into a problem when I try to get my VM a heartbeat IP address. I am trying to use 10.0.0.5 for the IP address but it says, "Invalid Option" when I do this.

I'm working on test boxes, so they aren't configured exactly as I like but... my configure is with a single NIC in each ESX host.

My 1st ESX server has a single vSwitch0 which has ServiceConsole1 at 192.168.1.5/24, ServiceConsole2 at 10.0.0.11/8, VMKernel at 10.0.0.1/8.
My 2nd ESX server has a single vSwitch0 which has ServiceConsole1 ata 192.168.1.6/24, ServiceConsole2 at 10.0.0.12/8, VMKernel at 10.0.0.2/8.

Why is it erroring when I try to set a custom IP address? If I manually enter 192.168.1.x/24 range for the IP, then it accepts it, but I really don't want to use 192.168.1.x/24 for the network. I typically set all my backend iSCSI networks up on 10.0.0.0/8.

Any advice here? Frustrated.
JR

More issues with this....

It seems like when rebooting either of my ESX hosts, whether sometimes doing clean shutdowns or simulating a server crash by pulling the plug, the 2 LVS nodes do NOT want to communicate anyone and do not even offer up iSCSI. When I try started the LVS nodes, the iSCSI storage never comes online. Furthermore, going into the LVS node menu and selecting Start Node never ends up synchronizing with the other node. The only thing it says is

" 0: cs:standalone st: secondary/unknown ds:consistent/dunkown r----

ns:0 nr:0 dw:0 al:0 bm:0 lo:0 pe:0 ua:0 ap:0

resync: use: 0/31 hits:0 misses:0 starving:0 dirty:0 changed:0

act_log: used:0/127 hits:0 misses:0 starving:0 dirty:0 changed:0

BOTH nodes are showingthe identical thing. Again, the iSCSI storage is not online.... The only way I can seem to fix this is to reset both nodes and reconfigure both nodes (I can't find a way OUT of that screen when it's trying to sync... ctrl-c, etc. nothing worked to get back to the menu...).

ON a side note, aside from THIS issue, I am having problems wiht the sole VM that is running on Node1. It's a Win2003 VM and is constantly crashing and becoming unpingable for no apparant reason.....

Is there ANY support available for this? I know it's free.. but I would like to introduce this to a couple clients, however I can't really do so if I'm having problems even getting this up and running.

Please advise. a bit frustrated with this...

JR