It’s been a while since I have posted, been pulled in many different directions with work priorities so blogging took a temporary side-line! I am now back and going to blog about a project I am currently working on to build out an extended VDI vSAN environment.
Our existing vSAN environment is running on DL380 G9 rackmounts, which whilst we had some initial teething issues have been particularly solid and reliable of late!
We are almost to the point of exhausting our CPU and Memory resources for this environment, along with about 60% utilized on the vSAN datastores across the 3 clusters. So with this it felt a natural fit to expand our vSAN environment as we continue the migration to Windows 10, and manage the explosive growth of the environment – aided by recently implementing Microsoft Azure MFA authentication vs 2-factor using a VPN connection.
As an organization, we are about to a refresh a number of HP Gen8 blades in our datacentre, and in looking at going to Gen10 knowing that this could be the last generation to support C7000 chassis, we thought it would be a good time to look at other solutions. This is where HPE Synergy composable infrastructure came in! After an initial purchase of 4 frames, and a business requirement causing us to expand this further – we felt that expanding vSAN could be a good fit into Synergy with the D3940 storage module.
Now we have the hardware in the datacentre and finally racked up, I am going to be going through a series of blogs on how vSAN looks in HPE Synergy composable infrastructure, our configuration, and some of the Synergy features / automation capabilities which make this easier to implement vs the traditional DL380 Gen9 rackmount hardware we have in place today. Stay tuned or follow my twitter handle for notifications for more on this series.