Can I get some direction on setting up Hyper-V server with a storage cluster?

@dustinb3403 said in Can I get some direction on setting up Hyper-V server with a storage cluster?:

Holy hell that is an expensive toilet seat lol.

$499 - $1500

Ours was $150 second hand.
Also it washes your ass for you. That is priceless.

Does it dry you too?

DustinB3403

@jaredbusch said in Can I get some direction on setting up Hyper-V server with a storage cluster?:

@dustinb3403 said in Can I get some direction on setting up Hyper-V server with a storage cluster?:

Holy hell that is an expensive toilet seat lol.

$499 - $1500

Ours was $150 second hand.
Also it washes your ass for you. That is priceless.

Eww second hand....

JaredBusch

@dustinb3403 said in Can I get some direction on setting up Hyper-V server with a storage cluster?:

@jaredbusch said in Can I get some direction on setting up Hyper-V server with a storage cluster?:

@dustinb3403 said in Can I get some direction on setting up Hyper-V server with a storage cluster?:

Holy hell that is an expensive toilet seat lol.

$499 - $1500

Ours was $150 second hand.
Also it washes your ass for you. That is priceless.

Eww second hand....

Do you change your toilet and or seat when you move into an apartment or house? Do you not go in a public restroom?

StuartJordan

@jaredbusch said in Can I get some direction on setting up Hyper-V server with a storage cluster?:

@dustinb3403 said in Can I get some direction on setting up Hyper-V server with a storage cluster?:

@jaredbusch said in Can I get some direction on setting up Hyper-V server with a storage cluster?:

@dustinb3403 said in Can I get some direction on setting up Hyper-V server with a storage cluster?:

Holy hell that is an expensive toilet seat lol.

$499 - $1500

Ours was $150 second hand.
Also it washes your ass for you. That is priceless.

Eww second hand....

Do you change your toilet and or seat when you move into an apartment or house? Do you not go in a public restroom?

Haha - that's very true though.

StuartJordan

And to OP, have you checked YouTube?

Youtube Video

KOOLER

@jaredbusch said in Can I get some direction on setting up Hyper-V server with a storage cluster?:

@dave247 said in Can I get some direction on setting up Hyper-V server with a storage cluster?:

@kooler said in Can I get some direction on setting up Hyper-V server with a storage cluster?:

@dave247 said in Can I get some direction on setting up Hyper-V server with a storage cluster?:

I have a few servers that are now available for whatever I want, since I've virtualized them to our vSphere 6.5 environment. We currently have a single SAN unit for our vm datastore which connects to two switches and then to three virtual hosts (SAM's Inverted Pyramid of Doom thing).

Anyway, I am trying to experiment with a different design as well as set up a new test environment. I want to install Hyper-V 2016 Server on my most powerful spare server, then I want to use my other two servers as mirrored or a distributed storage cluster.

I am not 100% on what is best practice on how exactly to set this up, so I'm hoping for some input. I mean, I'm a sysadmin at my job, so I understand how to install and configure stuff.. but I've not set up a completely new environment from scratch before.

Any advice is much appreciated!

SAM has a point (thanks for reference!)

Dave ping me anton AT starwind DOT com and I'll get you in touch with engineers who could help. You're welcomed to proceed with either commercial or a free version (no time bombs, no capacity or feature limits there).

https://www.starwindsoftware.com/starwind-virtual-san

https://www.starwindsoftware.com/starwind-virtual-san-free

Good luck

Sure, I may do that if I need help. I really only plan to use this as a lab + backup testing environment at work, so I would use the free version.. not sure what the difference is though.

Mostly support.

Support, UI and different "flavors" of support:

StarWind Pro-Active Support

https://www.starwindsoftware.com/starwind-pro-active-support

DustinB3403

@jaredbusch said in Can I get some direction on setting up Hyper-V server with a storage cluster?:

@dustinb3403 said in Can I get some direction on setting up Hyper-V server with a storage cluster?:

@jaredbusch said in Can I get some direction on setting up Hyper-V server with a storage cluster?:

@dustinb3403 said in Can I get some direction on setting up Hyper-V server with a storage cluster?:

Holy hell that is an expensive toilet seat lol.

$499 - $1500

Ours was $150 second hand.
Also it washes your ass for you. That is priceless.

Eww second hand....

Do you change your toilet and or seat when you move into an apartment or house? Do you not go in a public restroom?

When I moved into our house, yes I changed all of the seats so they were new. A $40/per replacement.

As for replacing the bowl, no, not unless it's nasty.

I get the point you're making as well, but I try to plan my life around clean bathrooms.

scottalanmiller

@dustinb3403 said in Can I get some direction on setting up Hyper-V server with a storage cluster?:

Do you change your toilet and or seat when you move into an apartment or house?

When I moved into our house, yes I changed all of the seats so they were new. A $40/per replacement.

It never even occurred to me that someone would do this.

dave247

Just checked in and I'm dying laughing!

JaredBusch

@dave247 said in Can I get some direction on setting up Hyper-V server with a storage cluster?:

Just checked in and I'm dying laughing!

I do hope we answered all your major questions before the thread hit the shitter.

scottalanmiller

@dave247 said in Can I get some direction on setting up Hyper-V server with a storage cluster?:

Just checked in and I'm dying laughing!

The problem with such a business community is that if you ask a question and aren't completely on top of the responses it will just veer off course and circle the drain while people keep talking without your continued input

mattel

@jaredbusch oh it hit the shitter all right

mattel

@scottalanmiller We have done this with any apartment we rented.