Guidance on install VSAN into existing converged environment

[rdonato]

Greetings,

I have a 4 node 2012 R2 Hyper-v cluster where I point my hyper-v VHD disks to an SMB3 share on a separate physical 2012 R2 file store. My storage server is a Dell server with PERC710P controller so I'm using direct attached storage on a single vdisk and no storage spaces. I have several terabytes of VHD's already on disk but want to add VSAN and then mirror to another VSAN server with similar configurations. How do I preserve the existing VHD's and add VSAN for mirroring? If there is a guide to this somewhere I'm not opposed to reading. I'm just trying to learn the product right now!

Thanks

[darklight]

To understand the basics of the product, you can use any Hyper-V related guide provided.

If I understand things right, you have to install Starwind on your storage server and create a virtual standalone device, which then should be connected over iSCSI to your Hyper-V cluster nodes. After initializing it as Cluster Shared Volume, you can start a live storage migration of your existing VHDXs to newly created standalone VSAN device.

After you get a second server, just enable starwind replication to it and add additional iSCSI connections on your cluster nodes with multipathing and round robin. That's it.

[Tarass (Staff)]

Valid point, Darklight, thank you.

Any further questions here?