Hyper-V cluster with SAN or NAS

So far, virtualization infrastructures have been built with a SAN or NAS storage system. Hyper-V is able to work with these kinds of solution using iSCSI or Fibre Channel (FC) protocol. This section introduces the Hyper-V design with both solutions.

iSCSI architecture overview

The solution presented in the following diagram is based on a NAS or a SAN and iSCSI protocol for storage traffic.

To implement this solution, the following hardware are required:

• At least two Hyper-V nodes for high availability (three or more are recommended)

  • Two NICs dedicated to iSCSI traffic

  • Two NICs dedicated to management, clustering, live migration, and VM networks

• At least two Ethernet switches. The speed of the Ethernet port must be related to the speed of the NAS or SAN Ethernet port and Hyper-V NICs. For example, if you have bought a NAS with 10 GB/s NIC, you should also buy 10 GB/s switches.

• An iSCSI SAN or NAS with two controllers to ensure high availability. In the following...