Let’s try something new…
The Binsfeldius Cluster has had a good and stable run on it’s Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 foundation but now it’s time to start from scratch and build the 3-node-cluster on the latest VMWare technology.
This post originally started out as a vSphere 5.5 build however as time progressed, and I got distracted, let’s pick this up at the latest version ov VMWare.
I will be using the same host hardware apart from double the memory in the nodes. Of course, I will boot from the QNAP ISCSI boot LUNs (coincidentally also a new QNAP, the TVS-871)
The network will be somewhat different as I’ve changed my infrastructure quite a bit in the past year. The physical hosts are in a separate firewalled VLAN and the VM’s will be deployed in several isolated VLAN’s which have their own segregated (Internet) access.
As before, I’m writing this as I progress through the update of the three node cluster from design, configuration and operation of the cluster. So, the latest entry in the navigation is exactly where I am at.
The index below will allow you to travel the path as I experienced it
- Binsfeldius Cluster moving to VMWare vSphere 6.0
- The shopping list
- Good things come in threes
- Building a hardware node
- The network design
- Preparing a node
- Installing VMWare ESXi 6.0 to iSCSI Boot LUN
- The storage design
- First configuration steps on each node – using vSphere Client
- vCenter Appliance & Web Client
- Building the three nodes into one cluster
- Getting rid of minor post configuration issues