This weekend I was sketching something out. I want to have shared storage for Hyper-V but I'm nervous about license costs. If MS makes desktop Windows free, I'm worried what that'll do to the next version of Server. Also, I have a few very small clusters of <10 machines so setting up and maintaining Windows Server Clustering and AD is a bigger burden.
Here's what I'm thinking:
- Mirrored small boot OS SSDs
- Pass-through 4-6 SSDs or HDDs to a Linux VM
- Run GlusterFS on the Linux VM on each server
- Set replication to 2 to limit how many copies I have
- Setup some sort of shared IP so that storage is available from a common IP address
- Have the Hyper-V hosts boot VMs off of the GlusterFS storage
Has anyone tried something similar? Is this way too hard for what I'm trying to do?
Here's what I'm thinking:
- Mirrored small boot OS SSDs
- Pass-through 4-6 SSDs or HDDs to a Linux VM
- Run GlusterFS on the Linux VM on each server
- Set replication to 2 to limit how many copies I have
- Setup some sort of shared IP so that storage is available from a common IP address
- Have the Hyper-V hosts boot VMs off of the GlusterFS storage
Has anyone tried something similar? Is this way too hard for what I'm trying to do?