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Hyper-V, iSCSI SAN on gigabit: single adapter or converged networks?
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There are two stand alone virtualization hosts (Hyper-V) based on these platforms: SYS-6017R-TDF. There is also a seemingly fault-tolerant file cleaner (RAID10 on hardware, a Windows Server file cluster of two nodes on top of hardware in virtual machines) based on this platform: SYS-5017C-MTF. The server rack switch is like this: Cisco SG300-10.
All three hosts with 2 Gigabit network adapters, united in NIC Teaming using WS2012R2, have weight-based QoS configured. For each type of traffic (replication, management, access to the network for virtual machines) there are separate virtual adapters with the corresponding QoS weights.
Inside the virtualization hosts spin: AD DC - 2 pcs., RDS session hosts - 2 pcs., RemoteApp session hosts - 2 pcs., for each virtualization host, one of each type. This whole zoo loads the network at about 100Mbps at the peak, the average load is about 30Mbps. In the case of replication of a virtual machine, the network, of course, is disposed of "to zero", but this does not happen often during business hours.
Now there is a need to raise fault-tolerant SQL, in connection with which the file washer is hastily completed with a pair of SSDs, an iSCSI target and is called a "data storage system". Since after installing the SSD, the file washer began to have sufficient functionality (fail-safe FS with iSCSI) and performance (1000+ IOPS),
Due to limited financial and hardware resources, 10Gb networks are not expected, as well as RDMA-capable network adapters. It must be done on the existing hardware or not done at all. There are two Intel® PRO/1000 CT network adapters in reserve. There are several schemes for organizing a storage network:
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