{"id":15243,"date":"2013-07-30T14:23:49","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T13:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=15243"},"modified":"2013-07-30T14:23:49","modified_gmt":"2013-07-30T13:23:49","slug":"yes-you-can-run-hyper-v-on-your-storage-spaces-cluster-sofs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=15243","title":{"rendered":"Yes, You Can Run A Hyper-V Cluster On Your JBOD Storage Spaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is the requirement of a cluster?\u00a0 Shared storage.\u00a0 What\u2019s supported in WS2012\/R2?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>SAS SAN<\/li>\n<li>iSCSI SAN<\/li>\n<li>Fiber Channel SAN<\/li>\n<li>FCoE<\/li>\n<li>PCI RAID (like Dell VRTX)<\/li>\n<li>Storage Spaces<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What\u2019s the difference between a cluster and a Hyper-V cluster?\u00a0 You\u2019ve enabled Hyper-V on the nodes.\u00a0 Here are 2 nodes, each connected to a JBOD.\u00a0 Storage Spaces is configured on the JBOD to create cluster shared volumes.\u00a0 All that remains now is to enable Hyper-V on node 1 and node 2, and now you have a valid Hyper-V cluster that stores VMs on the CSVs<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: none; margin-left: auto; display: block; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/image4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"322\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s completely supported, and a perfect Hyper-V cluster solution for the small\/medium business, with the JBOD costing a fraction (search engine <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>) of the equivalent capacity SAN.<\/p>\n<p>Stupid questions that you should not ask:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What file shares do I use to store my VMs on? \u00a0Where do you see &#8220;file shares&#8221; in the above text? \u00a0You store the VMs directly on the CSVs like in a Hyper-V cluster with a SAN, instead of storing file shares on the CSVs like in a SOFS cluster.<\/li>\n<li>Can I run other roles on the hosts? \u00a0No. \u00a0You never should do that &#8230; and I include Exchange Server and SQL Server for the 2 people that I now hope have resigned from working in IT who asked that recently.<\/li>\n<li>The required networks if you use 10 GbE are shown above. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lmgtfy.com\/?q=hyper-v+2012+converged+fabrics\" target=\"_blank\">Go look at converged networks <\/a>for all possible designs; it&#8217;s the same clustered 2012\/R2 Hyper-V networking as always.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:0b419786-5740-433b-a8d3-b5f3f7762b6e\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\" style=\"float: none; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding: 0px;\">Technorati Tags: <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Windows+Server+2012\">Windows Server 2012<\/a>,<a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Windows+Server+2012+R2\">Windows Server 2012 R2<\/a>,<a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Hyper-V\">Hyper-V<\/a>,<a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Virtualisation\">Virtualisation<\/a>,<a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Failover+Clustering\">Failover Clustering<\/a>,<a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Storage\">Storage<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the requirement of a cluster?\u00a0 Shared storage.\u00a0 What\u2019s supported in WS2012\/R2? SAS SAN iSCSI SAN Fiber Channel SAN FCoE PCI RAID (like Dell VRTX) Storage Spaces What\u2019s the difference between a cluster and a Hyper-V cluster?\u00a0 You\u2019ve enabled Hyper-V on the nodes.\u00a0 Here are 2 nodes, each connected to a JBOD.\u00a0 Storage Spaces &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=15243\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Yes, You Can Run A Hyper-V Cluster On Your JBOD Storage Spaces&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[63,181,99,195,118,120],"class_list":["post-15243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hyper-v","tag-failover-clustering","tag-hyper-v","tag-storage","tag-virtualisation","tag-windows-server-2012","tag-windows-server-2012-r2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}