Greetings,
I have a question about sizing or the shape of my cluster. I would appreciate some best practice and real life input.
General layout of equipment:
- Server 2012 R2 Data Center
- 12 HP DL 380 Gen 9 Serevers with about 160 GB RAM each
- HP 3PAR SAN with 35 TB of storage setup with iSCSI
- 2 Cisco 4500 switches to provide redundant 10 GB fiber iSCSI connection to servers
- System Center VMM
- 3 Older Gen 6-7-8 HP servers as replication servers connected to a HP MSA storage SAN
I currently have 7 servers in 1 cluster and then it hit me like a brick....
- Do I add all 12 servers to one cluster?
- Do I make 2 x 6 node clusters?
- Do I make 3 x 4 node clusters?
I look forward to hearing some experienced and seasoned veterans weigh in on this.
Thank you,
Eric