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IsilonSD Edge with vSAN
Hello,
I'm looking for help with a deployment IsilonSD Edge on vSphere/vSAN. There doesn't seem to be much documentation about deploying cluster in this scenario.
I have 3 hosts with 18 spinning disks and 6 ssd.
1) Do you deploy vShere/vSAN in the normal manner first using all the disks to create one datastore?
2) Does Isilon share the physical disks with vsan or do you create vmdk's for the isilon nodes on the vsan datastore?
3) What storage policy do you set on the vmdk's for the nodes located on vsan? Is the redundancy dealt with by the isilon software.
There is so little documentation on the configuration of the vsphere cluster that the Isilon sits on.
Thanks in advance!
sak99
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December 20th, 2017 17:00
There is a new version of IsilonSD Edge(1.0.3) released recently.
sak99
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December 20th, 2017 17:00
1) Do you deploy vShere/vSAN in the normal manner first using all the disks to create one datastore?
A: You need to configure/deploy vSAN before using IsilonSD Edge. It expects one vSAN datastore.
2) Does Isilon share the physical disks with vsan or do you create vmdk's for the isilon nodes on the vsan datastore?
A: IsilonSD creates VMDK's for Isilon nodes on the vSAN datastore.
3) What storage policy do you set on the vmdk's for the nodes located on vsan? Is the redundancy dealt with by the isilon software.
A: Isilon node VMDKs use whatever storage policy set on entire vSAN datastore. User can change the policy after Isilon nodes are deployed. Isilon software gives redundancy but with underlying vSAN it is recommended to use vSAN redundancy as well.
AlvaroG
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August 21st, 2018 12:00
Is there any best practice on the protection policy at Isilon level and at VMware vSAN storage policy?
ErikNielsen93021
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February 5th, 2019 10:00
Is there any best practice on the protection policy at Isilon level and at VMware vSAN storage policy?