We have purchased VMWare essentials plus to provide 2 physical hosts with virtual machines. 1 physical host would be used as the primary host with primary servers and the secondary server as failover. These are conected via iSCSI to an external NAS (which is also duplicated over to a secondary NAS for backup) Please can you confirm the best way to enable failover in this setup is to use vSphere HA with clustering?
Would I generally do the following setup process:
- Install the VMWare vSphere on each physical host
- Setup iSCSI connections on the primary host and point to the primary NAS drive and set secondary NAS as failover (using 1 NIC for LAN, and assign the remaining 3 NICS as single connections to be used by each virtual server)
- Setup iSCSI on the secondary host also pointing to the primary NAS and secondary as failover
- Install vCenter server locally on the primary host to manage the failover
- Setup a High Availability cluster through vCenter server and add both hosts
- Create virtual servers in the HA Cluster and have OS and data stored on the iSCSI
Thanks