Migration VM with physical RDM to HCI

[tien86]

Hello,

I think this is a common problem.

I change from traditional storage to HCI Dell VXRail P570. However, HCI doesn't have FC environment while I currently have some clusters with shared RDM: Oracle RAC, MS Lync, MS SQL on an external FC SAN storage system.

What should I do to migrate the VM to VXRail P570? I think about change from physical RDM to virtual RDM but not sure application cluster such as: Oracle RAC or MS SQL is consistency later.

Do anyone have real cases for this matter?

Thank you.

(Updated VXRail P570)

[LucD]

You didn't specify which HCI solution you will introduce.

Most HCI solutions will offer a method/procedure to provide sharing and SCSI-3 persistent reservations.

You will have to talk with your HCI provider.

Some pointers for 2 of the major players:

Migrating to VSAN

Shared Storage for Windows Server Failover Clusters on Nutanix

[tien86]

I find dell documents but there is not a lot reference relate this topic. What I get is the application cluster is MS Lync.

[LucD]

I'm afraid I have no practical experience with RDM on HCI, but KB54461I seems to indicate that you need the vSAN iSCSI Target Service.

I would suggest to ask more information in the VSAN community.