Hi guys,
Since this is my first forum post I really wanted to say thank you for this great blog and the work you guys put into it. Your blog is one of the sites I visit daily. I love to read the news, reviews, tests and advices of you guys. You guys inspired me to build my first home lab which I still use daily for testing and toying around.
Now I wanted to bring my home lab to a more higher standard and wanted to ask you guys if you can give me some szenario advices.
I am currently running a dual host (one is a custom build supermicro board xeon cpu - one a hp microserver gen8 with a xeon upgrade) Vmware ESXi setup with a synology NAS for data (but all the vms are saved locally on thoses two hosts) and an old Qnap who actually is one iSCSI target for one of the vms who has a "large" (500GB) amount of data.
The goal of the new home lab is also simulating host failures (if for example one host completly crashes) or storage failures. So I guess I need to move all the local vms to a redundant NAS or vSAN (which I never did so far). My two ESXi hosts are already in a vSphere Center Cluster so I did already toy around and moved live vms between the hosts while working on them and it worked flawless... But I guess thats childsplay for you guys. But I was like reaaaally excited when it worked.
Any ideas or examples are very very welcome!
Cheers,
Yves
Since this is my first forum post I really wanted to say thank you for this great blog and the work you guys put into it. Your blog is one of the sites I visit daily. I love to read the news, reviews, tests and advices of you guys. You guys inspired me to build my first home lab which I still use daily for testing and toying around.
Now I wanted to bring my home lab to a more higher standard and wanted to ask you guys if you can give me some szenario advices.
I am currently running a dual host (one is a custom build supermicro board xeon cpu - one a hp microserver gen8 with a xeon upgrade) Vmware ESXi setup with a synology NAS for data (but all the vms are saved locally on thoses two hosts) and an old Qnap who actually is one iSCSI target for one of the vms who has a "large" (500GB) amount of data.
The goal of the new home lab is also simulating host failures (if for example one host completly crashes) or storage failures. So I guess I need to move all the local vms to a redundant NAS or vSAN (which I never did so far). My two ESXi hosts are already in a vSphere Center Cluster so I did already toy around and moved live vms between the hosts while working on them and it worked flawless... But I guess thats childsplay for you guys. But I was like reaaaally excited when it worked.
Any ideas or examples are very very welcome!
Cheers,
Yves