Hi folks,
i have some questions regarding an upcoming migration to a 4-Node ESXi Cluster.
actual system:
I have several Windows Cluster Systems running (SQL- and Fileservercluster consisting of 2 nodes each). The problem is that the cluster datastore is an iSCSI-target which is mounted on vm-guest-level. The iSCSI-Target ends on a single nas (QNAP TS-U1679-RP). In future, i wish to migrate the clusterstorage directly to vSAN.
My question: Do i use the RDM feature of ESXi or is it better to use a vSAN datastore in conjunction with the Windows-Cluster Feature? The Windows Cluster itself is running on Windows Server 2012 R2.
Any suggestions are highly appreciated.
HTH
If you want to run a Windows Failover Cluster on ESXi you will use an RDM. But when you use vSAN you could migrate those RDMs to vSAN. See this article: Migrating VMs with shared RDMs to vSAN | Migrating to vSAN | VMware
If you want to run a Windows Failover Cluster on ESXi you will use an RDM. But when you use vSAN you could migrate those RDMs to vSAN. See this article: Migrating VMs with shared RDMs to vSAN | Migrating to vSAN | VMware
Thanks for the reply,
so the correct answer to my question would be "it depends". :smileylaugh: