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Generalized strategy for file server virtualization in Xenserver [closed]

I'm not shopping as much as I'm looking for some guidance on good idea / bad idea strategies. I'm sure I'm not in the "best practices" budget range. Currently, I have 3 dell poweredges running ...
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Clustered file systems as XenServer storage

I want to use shared storage for a XenServer environment with 4 host servers which are running various VMs under XenServer. Planning to use 2 extra servers as storage with high availability of some ...
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Shared Storage for XenServer FreeNAS, StarWind or OpenFiler [closed]

I am looking to set up a share storage for our servers in data center. Environments: 4 x Citrix XenServers (Free version) will be running around 30 VMs. Some VMs are heavy websites that have 5GB ...
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Restarting iscsid on XenServer - will it lose the volume?

I need to adjust some iscsi timeout options in the iscsid.conf (XenServer 6.0.2), but i need to achieve this without loosing the iscsi connection / the volume (so the Virtual machines don't go ...
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iSCSI storage questions

We are thinking about getting HP StorageWorks P2000 G3 iSCSI, but I would be very glad, if someone could respond to some of my questions. We would like to have two XenServer hosts connected with iscsi ...
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So what really makes a server grade NIC?

We have a couple servers hosting Citrix VM's. We are planning on adding SAN storage to our network so that we can do the quick migration and high availability thing. The question comes up with ...
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VMs on SAN vs NAS

I'm about to deploy XenServer on a DELL R900 and haven't finalized on the Storage yet. Would typically be running like 40 VMs on the server with requires about 2TB of storage. What should I choose ...
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New virtualization project and old SAN

We'll start shortly a partial virtualization of our infrastructure and consolidate a dozen servers into virtuals instances. We'll also add some client application virtualization into the mix for good ...