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Is it possible to create a server-based Hyper-V failover cluster in Hetzner?
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There are several iron servers at Hetzner. One of them is the Dell PowerEdge 720 and a few more simpler ones. Servers are now used as Hyper-V hosts, each server lives on its own with its own bunch of virtual machines.
What I want to do:
1. Shared storage for virtual machine disks. I only see it as iSCSI. Ideally, there would be 2 storages and they would be replicated and backed up to the heap. How reliable is iSCSI for this kind of use?
2. Two or three Hyper-V hosts with VM migration.
3. Manage it all from SCVMM.
The main question: Is it possible to do all this in the realities of Hetzner with their internal 1Gb network?
Another question was born: How to combine Hyper-V hosts in the internal Hetzner network into a secure domain network?
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1 gbe is fine for creating a Hyper-V cluster, but it must be more than one to work well. Refer to Hyper-V host network planning best practices (google Hyper-V capacity planning and search Microsoft docs). iSCSI is fine for your purpose, but since WS2012r2 it's possible to build a Hyper-V cluster on top of SMB 3.0 storage (i.e. regular network shares) -- and it's better to use this option if you don't have specific requirements for using iSCSI, as sometimes SMB shows significantly better performance (in my environment - twice). Both technologies support Multipath, both will perform well on 1 gbe links.
In more detail, alas, I can’t tell you - I didn’t work with Hetzner and I don’t know the specifics of their environment.
Another question was born: How to combine Hyper-V hosts in the internal Hetzner network into a secure domain network?
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