{"id":197,"date":"2014-07-18T17:02:16","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T15:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.infrastructurematters.nl\/?p=197"},"modified":"2017-03-14T21:30:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T20:30:00","slug":"vsan-part-1-my-vsan-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.infrastructurematters.nl\/?p=197","title":{"rendered":"VSAN Part 1: My VSAN Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As seen in previous posts, I still believe in full hardware based labs, against hypervirtualised lab environments. So, I decided to build one suitable for a lot of things, including VSAN! It may not be completely supported, but it will work for me. And it&#8217;s all free. Ah, free .. I&#8217;ve paid a good cake for it.<\/p>\n<p>3x HP DL360 G5:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2x Xeon 5405&#8217;s<\/li>\n<li>40GB RAM<\/li>\n<li>1x IBM 15GB SSD, placed in a HP 2.5&#8243; bracket<\/li>\n<li>1x 73GB 15K 2.5&#8243; SAS disk<\/li>\n<li>1x 146GB 10K 2.5&#8243; SAS disk<\/li>\n<li>Extra PCI-e dualport Gigabit NIC<\/li>\n<li>ESXI 5.5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>So, that&#8217;s an SSD and two disks per host. SSD is<\/div>\n<div>1x HP DL320S Storage Server:<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>12 x 500GB Sata disks<\/li>\n<li>Extra PCI-e dualport Gigabit NIC<\/li>\n<li>Server 2012 with iSCSI Targets enabled for SHared Storage<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>HP ProCurve 1810-24G<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>24 x 1gbit copper + 4 dualIdentity SFP ports<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>All neatly placed in an old 34U NetApp Filer rack.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>ESXI is installed, but then moving houses came in between. Once I have my power and network infra in place in my new house, I&#8217;ll write on.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As seen in previous posts, I still believe in full hardware based labs, against hypervirtualised lab environments. So, I decided to build one suitable for a lot of things, including VSAN! It may not be completely supported, but it will work for me. And it&#8217;s all free. Ah, free .. I&#8217;ve paid a good cake &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.infrastructurematters.nl\/?p=197\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;VSAN Part 1: My VSAN Lab&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5hbZj-3b","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infrastructurematters.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infrastructurematters.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infrastructurematters.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infrastructurematters.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infrastructurematters.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.infrastructurematters.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198,"href":"https:\/\/www.infrastructurematters.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions\/198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infrastructurematters.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infrastructurematters.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infrastructurematters.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}