iSCSI on Uber

Uber, the primary Ubuntu VM housing shared storage for the NY100 Data Center is serving shared storage for ISO images and VM's via NFS on separate Datastores.

Uber2 VM was used to validate the configuration of an iSCSI target server on Ubuntu. Once the testing was completed successfully, the final process was to port the configuration to Uber.

Uber now has a 100GB image file sitting on its 200GB vHard Drive (/dev/sdc). This 100GB sparse file was configured in iSCSI as LUN0. Once the LUN was configured, iSCSI target started.

On Northvale (one ESXi host in the Towers1 cluster), a new iSCSI storage adapter was configured and the 100GB iSCSI LUN on Uber was discovered . A new Datastore was added to northvale, formatted as VMFS-3, and this Datastore will be added to all hosts in the NY100 Data Center.

The plan is to move all VM storage from:

NFS - Datastore name shared-VM-store01
to
iSCSI - Datastore name shared-iscsci-store01

Will test Cold migration first, and then live Storage vMotion.

The build ISO images on the Datastore named shared-ISO-store01 will continue to be served via NFS.