Qsan XEVO, Manual

Page 1: ...Best Practice of Configuring Proxmox November 2022...

Page 2: ...al uses the following symbols to draw attention to important safety and operational information INFORMATION INFORMATION provides useful knowledge definition or terminology for reference TIP TIP provid...

Page 3: ...CONTENT Preface 1 Information Tip and Caution 1 Table of Content 2 Audience 3 Environment 3 Topology 4 Configuration 6 XEVO iSCSI Configuration 6 QSM NFS Configuration 16 QSM SMB Configuration 21 QSM...

Page 4: ...n Proxmox VE environment when uses XEVO and QSM We will introduce to use NFS SMB iSCSI protocol to create the storage in the below chapters Environment STORAGE XEVO QSM Firmware QSM v3 4 1 XEVO v2 2 0...

Page 5: ...Configuring Proxmox White Paper Audience 2022 QSAN Technology Inc All rights reserved www qsan com Official Document 4 Topology...

Page 6: ...Configuring Proxmox White Paper Audience 2022 QSAN Technology Inc All rights reserved www qsan com Official Document 5...

Page 7: ...qsan com Official Document 6 CONFIGURATION For XEVO iSCSI Configuration 1 Connect to the XEVO 192 168 175 31 and 192 168 175 32 and the installed Proxmox to the same switch and confirm that they can...

Page 8: ...2 QSAN Technology Inc All rights reserved www qsan com Official Document 7 3 Login to the Proxmox VE Web UI and go to edit node pve network configure IP address 192 168 175 11 24 and 192 168 175 12 24...

Page 9: ...ation 2022 QSAN Technology Inc All rights reserved www qsan com Official Document 8 5 SSH to the Proxmox and confirm that they can ping the XEVO IP set Previously set XEVO IP 6 Go to datacenter of sto...

Page 10: ...tion 2022 QSAN Technology Inc All rights reserved www qsan com Official Document 9 7 Enter ID and controller1 controller2 portal and select the target iqn you just created from host group page Please...

Page 11: ...qsan com Official Document 10 8 After clicking Add you can go to the storage page to confirm the newly created iSCSI 9 SSH to the Proxmox download multipath tools with the following command apt updat...

Page 12: ...mmand iscsiadm m session to confirm that there are two sessions 12 Use the command service multipathd start to enable multipath function And use the command cd etc to enter the etc directory 13 Use th...

Page 13: ...chnology Inc All rights reserved www qsan com Official Document 12 14 Use the command vi multipath conf to configure MPIO policy You can refer to the following configuration to set 15 Use the command...

Page 14: ...ights reserved www qsan com Official Document 13 16 Use the command multipath ll to check MPIO enable successfully It can be found that the status of both paths has become active 17 Back to Proxmox we...

Page 15: ...icial Document 14 18 Enter ID and select SANiSCSI1 as base storage and select volume and enter Volume group name and check shared 19 After clicking Add you can go to the LVM of pve node to confirm the...

Page 16: ...ite Paper Configuration 2022 QSAN Technology Inc All rights reserved www qsan com Official Document 15 20 Click Create VM at the top right and you can select the LVM you just created to create the VM...

Page 17: ...tion 2022 QSAN Technology Inc All rights reserved www qsan com Official Document 16 For QSM NFS Configuration 1 Connect the QSM cluster IP 192 169 138 109 and the installed Proxmox to the same switch...

Page 18: ...Configuring Proxmox White Paper Configuration 2022 QSAN Technology Inc All rights reserved www qsan com Official Document 17 2 Create a share folder named Proxmox_NFS 3 Add Proxmox IP to NFS Host...

Page 19: ...Proxmox White Paper Configuration 2022 QSAN Technology Inc All rights reserved www qsan com Official Document 18 4 Login to the Proxmox VE Web UI and go to datacenter of storage and then click Add and...

Page 20: ...nfiguration 2022 QSAN Technology Inc All rights reserved www qsan com Official Document 19 5 Enter ID and server which is cluster IP and select the share folder path you just add from NFS page and sel...

Page 21: ...ogy Inc All rights reserved www qsan com Official Document 20 6 After clicking Apply you can go to the storage page to confirm the newly created NFS 7 Click Create VM at the top right In the Disks pag...

Page 22: ...Configuring Proxmox White Paper Configuration 2022 QSAN Technology Inc All rights reserved www qsan com Official Document 21 For QSM SMB Configuration 1 Create a share folder named Proxmox_SMB...

Page 23: ...All rights reserved www qsan com Official Document 22 2 Login to the Proxmox VE Web UI and go to datacenter of storage and then click Add and select SMB CIFS 3 Enter ID and server which is cluster IP...

Page 24: ...Inc All rights reserved www qsan com Official Document 23 4 After clicking Apply you can go to the storage page to confirm the newly created Samba 5 Click Create VM at the top right and you can selec...

Page 25: ...QSAN Technology Inc All rights reserved www qsan com Official Document 24 For QSM iSCSI Configuration 1 Connect the QSM private IP 192 168 175 41 and 192 168 175 42 and the installed Proxmox to the sa...

Page 26: ...Please refer to XEVO iSCSI step3 to step20 to create VM by QSM iSCSI Conclusion QSAN storage is an ideal solution for virtualization Using QSAN storage to deploy SMB NFS iSCSI virtualization infrastru...

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