When I think about blade servers and storage, to be honest, I think about Fibre Channel (FC) SAN.\u00a0 The Virtual Connect (VC) technology is pretty powerful.\u00a0 Even today when talking about high uptime options for a client we decided on a \u201chot spare\u201d blade where we could flip over the VC profile if the original machine died.<\/p>\n
Fibre Channel SAN isn\u2019t an option for everyone.\u00a0 iSCSI is a powerful option, especially with 10GB Ethernet or Flex10 as HP brands it in their Blade System.\u00a0 There\u2019s a lot of questions you might have about iSCSI and HP BL Proliant servers so HP has published<\/a> a handy 3 page FAQ that goes through support and options.\u00a0 With something like iSCSI, HP Blades and Flex10 you could possibly<\/em> set up Blade hosts to run Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V with the parent partition on internal SAS disks and the cluster shared volume running on iSCSI.<\/p>\n When I think about blade servers and storage, to be honest, I think about Fibre Channel (FC) SAN.\u00a0 The Virtual Connect (VC) technology is pretty powerful.\u00a0 Even today when talking about high uptime options for a client we decided on a \u201chot spare\u201d blade where we could flip over the VC profile if the original … Continue reading “Primer on iSCSI and HP BladeSystem”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9804","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=9804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}