Equalogic Backup Drive

Objective

Leverage the Burke Lab iSCSI device to add to and assist with the migration of the GACRC SAN from 10.0.0.0/8 IP addresses to 192.168.0.0/16 IP addresses. This needs to happen because the SAN VLAN is unable to be monitored. A monitoring node cannot have interfaces on separate networks with the same IP addresses and the 10.0.0.0/8 network is already used on the internodal network (VLAN 40).

Completed

• Remove Franklin configuration
• Configure ports in the Thumper Rack for VLAN 31
• Configure IP addresses
• Add VMKernel interfaces with 192.168/16 IP addresses to ESX hosts
• Create LUNs
• Attach LUNs to VMWare Hosts
• Begin Migrating VMs
• Monitor LUN Latency and adjust
• Gave Burke iSCSI unit definition in Rocks
• Name: gacrc-iscsi-2
• MGMT IP address: 172.16.33.114
• iSCSI Access IP addresses: 192.168.0.1, 192.168.0.2, 192.168.0.3, 192.168.0.4 netmask 255.255.0.0
• Migrate non-essential VMs to Burke Storage while monitoring latency
• Provision additional LUNs for high-volume service VMs
• Migrate zhead/zcluster active VMs
• Remove LUNs from Hosts and reboot them, one host at a time
• Change Equalogics IP addresses
• Reattach Equalogics to Hosts and reboot them, one host at a time
• Migrate some or all VMs back

=Need to be Completed =

• Decide based on LUN latency how to proceed with storage provisioning

Notes

• Use Burke iSCSI as Virtual Machine backup?
• Use Burke iSCSI as exports for Gluster?
• Use Both Burke iSCSI And Equalogics for VMWare