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JasonXiaoJun
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vSphere design: what's the best practice to setup HA NFS over two vsphere server(physical machine) and a shared FC storage array

Currently I have two Dell R730 machines and a Dell M3800f storage array.

ESXi was installed on the two Dell R730 machines. vCenter 6.5 installed as a VM.

Five virtual machines up and running on two servers. To create persistent volume, we need setup a NFS server. We tried a DRBD+Pacemaker but this easy to fall into brain split situation.

Like to know if there have any best practice how to setup a HA NFS on top of two servers with vSphere installed and a shared FC storage array between two physical servers.

Thanks.

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parmarr
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Best practice for HA applicable to HA NFS since NFS datastore can also be configured as heartbeat datastore.

https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/techpaper/vcha65-perf.pdf

Sincerely, Rahul Parmar VMware Support Moderator
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