Gridstore and Hyper-V Teaming

Hyper-V Cluster with Gridstore

In this configuration we have a 3 host Hyper-V cluster and 3 Gridstore nodes. We are using 2 x Juniper 4550’s for the storage network and 2 x Juniper 3300’s.

There are 4 x 1GB NICS and 2 x 10GB SFP’s

4 x 1GB NIC’s will be configured in a Team using Windows Server 2012R2
              Live Migration on VLAN 1

              Management on VLAN 2

              Production on VLAN 3

              DMZ on VLAN 4

2 x 10GB SFP’s will be configured in a team for the storage network and will be configured 1 Port per switch.

As Gridstore is based on WS2008R2 best practice is to use the manufacturer’s drivers for teaming.

The Broadcom network card will be configured in a load balanced failover team using the drivers supplied.

The Junipers will be configured to tag all traffic to VLAN 283. There will be a 2 x 10GB ports configured as a 20GB trunk to allow the switches communicate between each other and send VLAN 283 traffic.

 Gridstore NIC Teaming

•       Plug Ethernet port 0 into a switch on each Gridstore node

•       Boot a DHCP server

•       Boot the Gridstore Nodes

•       Each node should be assigned an IP address from the DHCP server

•       Contact Gridstore Support and ask them to log into each node.

•       Set a static IP on the Ethernet address

•       To do this type in “control”

•       Click on “Network and Sharing Center”

•       Name the active interface and set a static IP on it to make things easier for later

•       Once you have set the static IP the RDP session will drop. Reconnect using the new IP

•       Cable your 10GB Ethernet to each switch and go back to the control panel

•       Click on Broadcom Control Suite 4 in Control panel

•       Click on Filter and select Team View

•       Right click on the server name “GS-DHBS6CZ1” in this case

•       Select create a new Team

•       Click Next

•       Name the team and click Next

•       Name the team and click Next

•       Select the adapters you want and click Add and then Next to continue

•       Leave the defaults and click Next

•       Leave the defaults and click Next

•       Click Add VLAN and click next

•       Name the VLAN this is important as it might help later in the process

•       Click on Tagged and click Next

•       Type in your VLAN ID and click next

•       After the Team is created open Network and sharing center and set the IP address on the Teamed NIC

•       RDP to the Gridstore using the new Teamed IP address

•       The next configuration you have to complete is in the registry

•       Open the command prompt and type in regedit and browse to “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Gridstore\NetworkAdapter”

•       If you see anything but the BASP adapter Follow the next steps

•       Disable the MGMT Interface

•       In the command prompt type in Service.msc

•       Disable the Gridstore Service

•       Open regedit

•       delete the Folder “NetworkAdapter” in “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Gridstore\NetworkAdapter”

•       Start the service and refresh the Gridstore Registry key by pressing F5

•       The BASP adapter should now be present.

•       Duplicate for each node

Windows Server 2012 NIC Teaming

•       Open Server Manager

• Click on NIC Teaming

    

•       Under teams click Tasks and select “New Team”

•       Name the team and select the adapters

•       Select the team then click Team Interfaces, Then click tasks and Add Interfaces

•       Name the new Virtual Adapter and the VLAN for the network

•       Set the Static IP on the StorageLAN – VLAN 283 Adapter

•       The team is now configured