François YACOB
Cadet
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- Jan 26, 2015
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Hello all,
I am looking for some helps to set up the following configuration :
- i want to set up 2 FREENAS boxes :
- the first FREENAS box will be the main boxes and will have high speed disks mainly SSD and SAS disks
- the second FREENAX box will be the failover box (cheaper disks, probably SATA)
The boxes will be in a replication cluster (active / passive)
The boxes will serve Vmware ESX hosts (5 hosts) with iSCSI or NFS (no specific requirements)
- i want to address the following problem :
- if i update my main box (security update, patch, or hardware firmware) and need to reboot it, prior to the reboot i want to be able to switch / force the iSCSI/NFS traffic to go to the second FREENAS box.
- after the reboot, if want to manually go back the traffic to the main box
My question is :
- does anyone know if it is possible ? can i manually request a failover to the second box and let the 2 FREENAS trigger a last replication operation (suspending the I/O on the vmware hosts) , then when the second box is in sync, switch the NFS IP or second IP iSCSI portal to the second box ?
Thanks for your response,
François
I am looking for some helps to set up the following configuration :
- i want to set up 2 FREENAS boxes :
- the first FREENAS box will be the main boxes and will have high speed disks mainly SSD and SAS disks
- the second FREENAX box will be the failover box (cheaper disks, probably SATA)
The boxes will be in a replication cluster (active / passive)
The boxes will serve Vmware ESX hosts (5 hosts) with iSCSI or NFS (no specific requirements)
- i want to address the following problem :
- if i update my main box (security update, patch, or hardware firmware) and need to reboot it, prior to the reboot i want to be able to switch / force the iSCSI/NFS traffic to go to the second FREENAS box.
- after the reboot, if want to manually go back the traffic to the main box
My question is :
- does anyone know if it is possible ? can i manually request a failover to the second box and let the 2 FREENAS trigger a last replication operation (suspending the I/O on the vmware hosts) , then when the second box is in sync, switch the NFS IP or second IP iSCSI portal to the second box ?
Thanks for your response,
François