This post is more than 5 years old
9 Posts
0
13680
January 29th, 2014 15:00
PS6100 Connection to Hyper-V Guest
Hi All,
I need to connect my guest SQL VM to my EQL. I have created a volume on the EQL (Raid 50) for my SQL Data & Logs. I have 2 dedicated NICs for iSCSI on my host.
To connect the guest to the EQL, I assume I would do the folllowing. Create two new external network adaptors in Virtual Switch Mananger. Point each one to the respective iSCSI pNIC on the host. Check allow management and apply.
On the guest, set the IP to the EQL subnet on each vNIC.
First time doing this and want to make sure I am doing it right. Thanks!!
No Events found!
cpottsIT
9 Posts
0
January 29th, 2014 15:00
Excellent. Thanks Don!!
I wish I could dedicate a pNIC to the guest traffic, but I do not have any left.
cpottsIT
9 Posts
0
January 30th, 2014 06:00
Don,
MY EQL is setup as 24 disks in RAID 50. I set a volume directly attached to the V/M Guest and was not happy with the response. So, I am going to create a single VHDX with one volume for the entire SQL server, data and logs. So far the response is faster. Do you see any drawbacks this way?
cpottsIT
9 Posts
0
January 30th, 2014 09:00
Thanks Don. So are you saying I should create a vhdx for each of the drives? one for C: one for data and one for logs? 3 vhdx's in all on that one lun?
michaelpacheco
66 Posts
0
January 31st, 2014 10:00
Are you using ASM/ME to protect / recover SQL Server data? If so, please keep in mind that Smart Copies of the VM taken from the ASM/ME instance on the Hyper-V host - will, indeed, be application-consistent when using VHDx for SQL data. However, you will not get much granularity in your Smart Copy restores. You will be only be able to restore the VM and entire application-state from a point-in-time.
In contrast, using the Guest's iSCSI initiator to connect to it's volumes -- Smart Copies taken from the ASM/ME instance running on the Guest will be both application-consistent and allow for more granular restores of the database objects.
Just some considerations to ponder. Kindly advise if I can provide further information.