esxi lab servers
charles
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May 6, 2025, 4:33 pmQuote from charles on May 6, 2025, 4:33 pmNew user here. I have 5 new servers that were originally spec'd for vsan, and of course, due to the BC taxes, I'm losing my vsan licenses. I have perpetual host licensing though. The servers each have eight 1.9tb nvme direct attached drives, no arrays. Plus an array and two nvme drives for the OS.
My thought is use petasan and nvme pass through as a VM, running on esxi 8. This will be storage used in a lab and not for production, and give me the ability to learn the product a bit more.
I installed the first three nodes of petasan, nodes 1 and 2 say that another node needs to join the cluster. On the 3rd node, I'm getting an error that says cannot create the OSDs for node 3.
I gave all 8 drives to the OSD on each node, since they are NVMe, do I need journal or cache? I have allocated 8 vCPU and 64gb of ram to each VM. If I need to adjust this, let me know.
The goal is to setup CIFS and NFS for VM's to attach to. Not planning on using it for vdisk storage. Mainly used for generic file storage and logs.
Thanks
New user here. I have 5 new servers that were originally spec'd for vsan, and of course, due to the BC taxes, I'm losing my vsan licenses. I have perpetual host licensing though. The servers each have eight 1.9tb nvme direct attached drives, no arrays. Plus an array and two nvme drives for the OS.
My thought is use petasan and nvme pass through as a VM, running on esxi 8. This will be storage used in a lab and not for production, and give me the ability to learn the product a bit more.
I installed the first three nodes of petasan, nodes 1 and 2 say that another node needs to join the cluster. On the 3rd node, I'm getting an error that says cannot create the OSDs for node 3.
I gave all 8 drives to the OSD on each node, since they are NVMe, do I need journal or cache? I have allocated 8 vCPU and 64gb of ram to each VM. If I need to adjust this, let me know.
The goal is to setup CIFS and NFS for VM's to attach to. Not planning on using it for vdisk storage. Mainly used for generic file storage and logs.
Thanks
Last edited on May 6, 2025, 4:34 pm by charles · #1
esxi lab servers
charles
1 Post
Quote from charles on May 6, 2025, 4:33 pmNew user here. I have 5 new servers that were originally spec'd for vsan, and of course, due to the BC taxes, I'm losing my vsan licenses. I have perpetual host licensing though. The servers each have eight 1.9tb nvme direct attached drives, no arrays. Plus an array and two nvme drives for the OS.
My thought is use petasan and nvme pass through as a VM, running on esxi 8. This will be storage used in a lab and not for production, and give me the ability to learn the product a bit more.
I installed the first three nodes of petasan, nodes 1 and 2 say that another node needs to join the cluster. On the 3rd node, I'm getting an error that says cannot create the OSDs for node 3.
I gave all 8 drives to the OSD on each node, since they are NVMe, do I need journal or cache? I have allocated 8 vCPU and 64gb of ram to each VM. If I need to adjust this, let me know.
The goal is to setup CIFS and NFS for VM's to attach to. Not planning on using it for vdisk storage. Mainly used for generic file storage and logs.
Thanks
New user here. I have 5 new servers that were originally spec'd for vsan, and of course, due to the BC taxes, I'm losing my vsan licenses. I have perpetual host licensing though. The servers each have eight 1.9tb nvme direct attached drives, no arrays. Plus an array and two nvme drives for the OS.
My thought is use petasan and nvme pass through as a VM, running on esxi 8. This will be storage used in a lab and not for production, and give me the ability to learn the product a bit more.
I installed the first three nodes of petasan, nodes 1 and 2 say that another node needs to join the cluster. On the 3rd node, I'm getting an error that says cannot create the OSDs for node 3.
I gave all 8 drives to the OSD on each node, since they are NVMe, do I need journal or cache? I have allocated 8 vCPU and 64gb of ram to each VM. If I need to adjust this, let me know.
The goal is to setup CIFS and NFS for VM's to attach to. Not planning on using it for vdisk storage. Mainly used for generic file storage and logs.
Thanks