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Then when you click on the create volume button, you're presented with an assistant asking if the volume will be used in multi host environment (that's our case).Īt the next page you'll see that I have created already some volumes.

By default there is single 16TB volume created on the device, which you can safely delete. but for this particular case when one uses 2 ESXi hosts, it's fine…Īfter a reboot we can have a look at the volume creation. Normally you would like to separate the console traffic from VM traffic by a specific VLAN…. I'm not saying that that's the best practice. You can then put the ESXi console on the same network as your VM network. In case you're using 2 ESXi hosts with let's say 3 NICs, you can configure 2 NICs for iSCSI Storage traffic (have redundancy and load ballancing) and 1 NIC for VM traffic. It's really bad idea to use single switch without VLANs, because the performance will be degraded. You can find gigabit switches for couple of bucks today. In case you don't want to do all the hassle and configure VLANs on your switch (which might not even support it, if it's not level 3 switch), you can just buy an additional gigabit switch which will be used for the storage traffic. I do use a VLANs to separate the storage traffic, vMotion traffic etc… but you don't have to if you don't want to. The configuration of Drobo Elite for my lab is the following. I found a bit of everything as a capacity, some 500Gigs drives and some 80 gigs drives. Here you can see that I mixed the capacity of the SATA drives in my Drobo.

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You'll find the configuration guide and Drobo Dashboard software included on the bundled CD, but when I checked for the latest release on the Drobo's website, I went and downloaded the latest version. This is a bit unusual comparing to other SAN, NAS devices which are usually configurable via the LAN port, but I'm fine with that. The 2 iSCSI ports on the back side of the device are only intended to use for the storage traffic, not for configuration. To configure Drobo Elite, there is an USB port and cable included to do so.

Once done, I installed the Drobo Dashboard on my laptop. In my particular case I found out that the latest firmware release for Drobo Elite was 2.0.2, and the Drobo Dashboard for PC, which release date was Jand the Version was 2.8. This software is available for Windows, MAC, You can find the latest releases on this page at Drobo.

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In order to benefit the latest firmware release, it's highly recommended to get the latest firmware upgrade and get also the latest management software called Drobo Dashboard. This is the second part of the review will start with the actual setup of the device. I'll definitely be able to talk to my clients about the benefits which BeyondRAID can bring in terms of flexibility and availability. It's funny because me, an IT professional, I did not really knew what that technology can offer and how flexible it is. In the first part of my mini-serie you discovered the BeyondRAID technology used in all Drobos. Those vSphere Editions are oriented to the SMB market, for small shops, which will not be able to pay a consultant to setup the shared storage, so Drobo can be a good alternative with an easy setup. Virtual infrastructure monitoring software review.

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