SAN Storage

[Esra E.]

Hi,

I have been running ESX1 5.1 with OpenIndiana 151a7 using Mellanox MHQH29C (ConnextX-2) QDR cards to connect with SRP and backing up with using Veeam v7 on Windows 2008 R2 with SRP for direct SAN. It has been working great.

But, as I look to upgrade to ESXi 6.0 and Windows 2012 R2, I was wondering what others are doing.

 

[capn_pineapple]

The Nutanix guys were saying that they're in the process of using local storage on each system as a sort of distributed SAN/NAS for clustered systems.

On my system I've service bound iSCSI to one port for SAN-like behavior and connected that to my Hyper-V host, with Samba to the other NIC for general NAS duties.

 

[markpower28]

2008r2 is the last windows support srp

 

[Esra E.]

2008r2 is the last windows support srp

So, it looks like no more direct SAN backup with Infiniband now if you are on Windows 2012 or later.

 

[markpower28]

Correct, I would leave Veeam on 2008R2 if direct SAN backup if required.

 

[Esra E.]

Now, I'm curious. Is anyone using Infiniband as a SAN solution anymore?

 

[markpower28]

I am using ib based smb 3 for hyper-v and ib srp based for zfs.

 

[Naeblis]

I am using ib based smb 3 for hyper-v and ib srp based for zfs.

Same here all my nvme drive (San) using rdma. Smb to my hyperv hosts using 2 ports of FDR infiniband.

So far j am getting 8.5 remote. However I just got 5.3GB/s with one port. So still tinkering