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ToreTrygg
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HA for my system

Hello!

I have asked it on other communities, but the question is still open, so please:

I have ESXi on my two Intel Xeon servers with running ESXi on`em. There are about 60 clients+16 thin clients in the network. We`ve got 100TB data storage . We`re using SQL DB with crytical data and Exchange 2010 CCR . We`ll use tape device for backup.

What iSCSI target do supports High Availability for my project?

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AntonVZhbankov
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Take a look at Starwind


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Hi,

if you have enough money and want HA and secure your data.

Teke e.g. HP Storage (SAS HDDs) and a software like datacore sanmelody or sansymphony for mirroring,

Good luck!

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ToreTrygg
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Unfortunately my budget can`t afford purchsing HP storage.

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AntonVZhbankov
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Take a look at Starwind


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milos77
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I'm using openfiler as iScsi target (www.openfiler.org) and it works fine. Support Raid, network interface bonding, logical volume.

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krowczynski
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Maybe this will be interesting for you?

http://www.open-e.com/service-and-support/product-compatibility/vmware/

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ToreTrygg
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Openfiler is Linux based solution, and I`m preffering Windows. And it`s reliability is not too high, as I know.

The same issue is to Open-E. But I know that it supports HA, so I`ll take a look.

Anton, if I get right you worked with StaWind. Can you tell something about it?

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DSTAVERT
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If reliability is important don't just look at software and don't let your familiarity with Windows keep you from making good overall choices. What platform do you currently have for storage? 100TB is a big chunk for a simple collection of disks. You dismissed a suggestion of an HP server and disks as not something you can afford. If you don't have a solid, reliable platform with good disk performance to store the data you won't have a reliable HA solution and that is the purpose of HA in the first place. Reliability.

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TobiasKracht
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Hello! If you are interested in high availability storage you can take a look to StarWind 5. New version of this software will provide new kind of storage - active-active with automatic failover and failback with fastsync. You have a first look at StarWind 5 at special page here.

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ToreTrygg
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The part of data is keeped on clients HDDs, everything else - on Dell disc arrays. We`re planning also to use tape drives for backup.

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DSTAVERT
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What are you going to use to host the iSCSI software? You have two hosts which means that HA is dependent on the single remaining host to support the load of both hosts or at least a portion of them. What do you envision your HA strategy to be?

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ToreTrygg
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For now I`m not so interested in VM HA, as in Shared storage HA. I'm planning to increase server park. Also I`d like to have access to servers from remote site.

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Again what will you host your storage on. You weren't interested when you were presented with an HP server and disks? Are you after software? Hardware? What do you mean about remote access? Do you mean replicated storage across a WAN?

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AntonVZhbankov
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>As I know it don`t support HA yet:

Starwind 5.0 with HA comes on 1st of November.


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ToreTrygg
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I`d like to use software solutions.

Under remote access I meant

remote access for managing target.

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DSTAVERT
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Are you wanting to use a Virtual Machine to host your storage solution? How much data needs to be shared and replicated?

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ToreTrygg
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Thank you for all of your responses, especially Anton and Tobias. I'm using[ StarWind|http://www.starwindsoftware.com/starwind] now.

It is reliable bundle solution for SMB, I believe.

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