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Creating a SQL 2008R2/2012 SQL Cluster using 10Gb iSCSi on VNX5300
Hi all,
I'm looking to build a SQL cluster (2008 R2 or 2012) on a VNX 5300 & vSphere 5.1 hosts with the following specs:
The SQL nodes should be hosted on seperate vSphere hosts and looking at a Active/Passive setup.
I'm being told that I cannot run a MSCS using RDM's over iSCSi. As i dont have a FC switch I would prefer to ensure the 10Gb network is used instead.
- SAN
VNX5300 DPE; 25X2.5 DRIVE - 8X600G 10K 3U DAE WITH 15X3.5 INCH DRIVE SLOTS VNX5300 2ND CONTROL STATION - Mini RACK VNX5300 CONTROL STATION -MINIRACK 1GBE DM MODULE 4 PORT FOR VNX5300 VNX 5300 DME: 1 DM+FC SLIC-MINI RCK 2TB 7200RPM 6GB SAS DISK DRIVE 2.5 IN 600GB 10K 6GB SAS DISK DRIVE 2 C13 PWRCORDS W/BSI 1363 PLUGS 250V 10A VNX CABLE KIT FOR DPE; 1DM; 1CS; 2 SPS ADDITIONAL 8 G FC SFP FOR VNX 51/53 DOCUMENTATION KIT FOR VNX5300 ENHANCED SOFTWARE SUPPORT 2ND OPTIONAL SPS FOR VNX 51/53 EMC SECURE REMOTE SUPPORT GATEWAY CLIENT UNISPHERE UNIFIED & VNX OE VNX5300 BASE FILE LICENSE (CIFS/FTP) FOR VNX5300 ADV FILE LIC (NFS; MPFS & PNFS) FOR 5300 VNX BLK & FILE OE INYO VNX 5300 2 PT 10GBASE-T ISCSI IO MOD PR
- vSphere 5.1 (x 3 hosts)
HP ProLiant DL360p Gen8 E5-2620 2.0GHz 6-core 1P 8 HP DL360p Gen8 Intel Xeon E5-2620 (2.0GHz/6-core/1 HP 8GB (1x8GB) Dual Rank x4 PC3L-10600R (DDR3-1333 HP iLO Advanced including 1yr 24x7 Technical Suppo HP NC552SFP 10Gb 2-port Ethernet Server Adapter HP 460W Common Slot Platinum Plus Hot Plug Power S
- Network
Cisco 3750X (Dual Stack) with 10GB network module
Extra 10Gb switch will be added to accomodate full redundancy of dual 10Gb ports on VNX & ESXi hosts
Is this possible?
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Posted December 18th, 2012 06:00
vSphere MSCS Setup Limitations
Before you set up MSCS, review the list of functions that are not supported for this release, and requirements
and recommendations that apply to your configuration.
The following environments and functions are not supported for MSCS setups with this release of vSphere:
n Clustering on iSCSI, FCoE, and NFS disks.
n Mixed environments, such as configurations where one cluster node is running a different version of
ESXi than another cluster node.
n Use of MSCS in conjunction with vSphere Fault Tolerance (FT).
n Migration with vSphere vMotion® of clustered virtual machines.
n N-Port ID Virtualization (NPIV)
very soon VNX File will support SMB 3.0, so you could potentially run SQL 2012 over CIFS.