Hi All,
We have built a private cloud for one of our customers using SC 2012 R2.
We have SCVMM 2012 R2 in place, everything was up & running till we face a power failure & now we have a configuration issue which made me think on the entire private cloud design.
What we have ?
1. A Storage Server - which has 1 TB disc attached. we have created 2 ISCSI Disks out of it.
2. A SCVMM 2012 R2 server - The ISCSI disc are connected to this server using ISCSI initiator.
3. 3 Hyper-v Hosts for Host cluster.
We have added the storage server in SCVMM & have created 2 LUN's. This server is also added as storage in Hyper-v host cluster. All the system center VM's were built on the hyper-v cluster with there VHD's on the Luns.
What the problem is ?
The SCVMM is now not able to connect to the iscsi disk due to some configuration problem (which was caused after a power outage) & our private cloud got down not a single VM is running now as they were all built on Host cluster with storage on iscsi disks.
I discussed this issue with my manager & he said that scvmm is just a management tools & once we have a cluster up & running we don't even need scvmm services running. which made me to rethink on the design of the private cloud.
Need Experts help :-
Should we connect the iscsi disk to all the hosts which were added in SCVMM. So, that even if scvmm is down every vm created on hyper-v cluster runs without any issue.
Thanks,
Pranay.