I'm looking to set up a couple of VM hosts and am trying to decide how to set up the storage + backup
edit: wasn't sure where this belonged, hope someone knows where to move it :)
Storage Technolgy - I was thinking about SSDs as I don't have space issues, 256gb SSDs would give me room for future expansion. What model of SSDs would be best? I only have experience with Samsung 830s, and new 840s look great, are there server grade drives I should be using for a VM setup?
Connectivity/Backup - I'm unsure how best to connect whatever storage I decide on, I'd like to be able to move VMs between the two Hosts to load balance and for redundancy if one host goes down.
I've had a bit of a look into iSCSI as FC is probably out of my budget and it looks like it would help by centralsing all the VMs, backup could be to a secondary iSCSI host. I'm not sure of the performance I'd get though without going to 10gb.
The other option would just be local raid cards with additional slow SATA storage to cross backup the VMs, looking around most VM hosts have live backup utilities that would do the job then if a host failed it would just be a case of moving the VM to the primary storage from the backup and starting it again. (also changing the backup to local until the other host comes back up)
edit: wasn't sure where this belonged, hope someone knows where to move it :)
Storage Technolgy - I was thinking about SSDs as I don't have space issues, 256gb SSDs would give me room for future expansion. What model of SSDs would be best? I only have experience with Samsung 830s, and new 840s look great, are there server grade drives I should be using for a VM setup?
Connectivity/Backup - I'm unsure how best to connect whatever storage I decide on, I'd like to be able to move VMs between the two Hosts to load balance and for redundancy if one host goes down.
I've had a bit of a look into iSCSI as FC is probably out of my budget and it looks like it would help by centralsing all the VMs, backup could be to a secondary iSCSI host. I'm not sure of the performance I'd get though without going to 10gb.
The other option would just be local raid cards with additional slow SATA storage to cross backup the VMs, looking around most VM hosts have live backup utilities that would do the job then if a host failed it would just be a case of moving the VM to the primary storage from the backup and starting it again. (also changing the backup to local until the other host comes back up)