VSA for Vsphere-Linux - 2 node HyperConverged home lab
Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2022 3:44 am
Hi all,
Hoping someone here can answer my questions. I have two physical machines running ESXI 6.7 u3 bare metal with VCenter/Vsphere 7 deployed in a VM - all working fine. My goal is to get StarWind VSAN working in a 2 mode HyperConverged setup going using local storage within each host only. This is just a test lab so no RAID or iSCSI. Assuming that I can just use an existing ESXi data store as separate hard disks made available to linux StarWind VSA VM's?
I've been following the following guide -https://www.starwindsoftware.com/resour ... here/which has worked fine; I've configured all the networks in Center and have the two Starwind VSA's deployed and working - I can access the web based console for each StarWind VM <IPADDRESS:9090> and see both hard drives (SSD and HDD) as well. Through the console I have formatted each as XFS and are mounted to /mnt/disk1 and /mnt/disk2 respectively.
I also have a Windows 10 VM where I have installed the StarWind Management Console and powershell scripts.
1. What are the correct scripts to run to configure HA - i.e storage pool and add disks to the pool for each StarWind VM?
2. Can I use the powershell scripts to work with the already formatted disks on each Starwind VSA VM?
3. Do I need to run the powershell scripts separately for each Starwind VSA?
4. Is there a correct order in which to create HA -ie. the pool and add the disks via Powershell?
5. how do I verify everything is working - i.e test the HA failover?
Thanks
Hoping someone here can answer my questions. I have two physical machines running ESXI 6.7 u3 bare metal with VCenter/Vsphere 7 deployed in a VM - all working fine. My goal is to get StarWind VSAN working in a 2 mode HyperConverged setup going using local storage within each host only. This is just a test lab so no RAID or iSCSI. Assuming that I can just use an existing ESXi data store as separate hard disks made available to linux StarWind VSA VM's?
I've been following the following guide -https://www.starwindsoftware.com/resour ... here/which has worked fine; I've configured all the networks in Center and have the two Starwind VSA's deployed and working - I can access the web based console for each StarWind VM <IPADDRESS:9090> and see both hard drives (SSD and HDD) as well. Through the console I have formatted each as XFS and are mounted to /mnt/disk1 and /mnt/disk2 respectively.
I also have a Windows 10 VM where I have installed the StarWind Management Console and powershell scripts.
1. What are the correct scripts to run to configure HA - i.e storage pool and add disks to the pool for each StarWind VM?
2. Can I use the powershell scripts to work with the already formatted disks on each Starwind VSA VM?
3. Do I need to run the powershell scripts separately for each Starwind VSA?
4. Is there a correct order in which to create HA -ie. the pool and add the disks via Powershell?
5. how do I verify everything is working - i.e test the HA failover?
Thanks