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Storage

The Lab system is a consumer grade Synology DS216+II with Spinning Disks, I may upgrade to SSD or buy a QNAP NAS with 10G interfaces later

Factory Reset the the NAS​

  • See instruction on how to do this, make sure to give Admin a new and strong password

  • Update all the installed applications and DSM

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Static IP​

  • Change IP to static 192.168.1.250
  • Change the the MTU to 9000
  • Should redirect to .250 once set

Storage Pool​

  • The NAS I have is just a 2 Disk NAS. I used SHR and have a total capacity of 2.7TB

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  • Create 3 Shared Folders

    • ISO. This can be on slow storage and can be pretty small
    • BASEVM. If you have SSD's put this on SSD
    • RANGE. Definitely SSD if you have it

  • For each Share, Create NFS permissions similar to this one, allowing your esxi hosts to talk to the NFS share

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    💣 Now, for production, it's a good idea to have storage on a private network only accessible to ESXi hosts and not the general populace that have access to the management network. Also, you want a NAS that can authenticate connections with Kerberos or similar.

  • The following have NFS mounts

  • /volume1/ISO

  • /volume1/BASEVM

  • /volume1/RANGE

ISOS

  • Upload the vcenter ISO to ISOs

  • Upload a recent xubuntu to the ISOs directory

  • While you are at it, upload a Server 2019 ISO that you have licenses to

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Mount the ISO, BASEVM and RANGE NFS Shares on esxi1​

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  • Browsing the Datastore Should show the ISOs you just uploaded

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  • It is also helpful to rename the esxi local datastores so that there aren't duplicate datastore1 labels. After esxi2 is configured your datastores would look similar to this.

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