Windows Server 2012 R2 NIC Teaming (LBFO) Deployment and Management Guide

If anyone wants to know in detail about Windows Server 2012 R2 NIC Teaming (LBFO) deployment and management, please refer this link.

Reference :
www.microsoft.com

Best practices while creating a VM on Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V host

Open-E DSS V7 Active-Active Load Balancing iSCSI HA SAN Cluster Operations Guide

Implementing HA storage cluster - Open-E DSS V7 Active-Active Load Balancing iSCSI HA SAN cluster

The setup that I used for this implementation is mentioned below :

-Two DELL PowerEdge R710 servers (ESXI01 and ESXI02)

-Implemented Open-E DSS V7 Active-Active iSCSI HA SAN Cluster – using two VSA’s running on different ESXI 5.5 hosts

-In Active-Active mode, both nodes of the cluster will simultaneously run volumes providing high availability of data

-Overall cluster performance will be improved compared to Active-Passive mode since the read, write and replication traffic can be balanced on both nodes

-Open-E cluster nodes :

• Node A1 on ESXI01 
• Node B1 on ESXI02 
• Configured separate network interfaces for heartbeat, volume replication and WEB GUI management
• Added direct point-to-point connection between the above two ESX hosts for reliable volume replication
• Configured iSCSI volumes and targets on Node A1 and Node B1
• Configured replication tasks and failover cluster with multiple auxiliary paths
• Configured virtual target IP address and added targets to cluster
• Started cluster

Note :

Detailed configuration guide is given in Open-E website itself

Implementing storage cluster - Open-E DSS V7 Active-Passive iSCSI SAN Failover Cluster

The setup that I used for this implementation is mentioned below :

-Two DELL PowerEdge R710 servers (ESXI01 and ESXI02)

-Implemented Open-E DSS V7 Active-Passive iSCSI Failover Cluster – using two VSA’s running on different ESXI 5.5 hosts

• Created VM and installed Open-E Node A on ESXI01
• Created VM and installed Open-E Node B on ESXI02
• Configured separate network interfaces for heartbeat, volume replication and WEB GUI management
• Configured a vSwitch on both ESXI hosts (ESXI01 and ESXI02) 
• Added direct point-to-point connection between the above two ESXI hosts for reliable volume replication
• Configured iSCSI volumes and targets on Node A and Node B
• Configured replication task
• Configured failover cluster with multiple auxiliary paths
• Configured virtual target IP address
• Added target to cluster
• Configured iSCSI initiator
• Tested failover and failback functions successfully

Note :

Detailed configuration guide is given in Open-E website itself

Configuring iSCSI volume using Open-E DSS V7

Configuring NAS volume using Open-E DSS V7

Configuring ESXI 5.5 server to connect to a iSCSI LUN and mounting it as datastore

Configuring multiple iSCSI LUNs on a single virtual disk (VD) using FreeNAS 9.2

Configuring a iSCSI LUN using FreeNAS 9.2 and mounting it as a disk drive

Configuring Windows CIFS shares (NAS functionality) using FreeNAS 9.2

Implementing FreeNAS storage server - Build document

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