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Updates to page 'Advanced single-site VMware Reference architecture' #3

Closed scottwalden closed 3 years ago

scottwalden commented 3 years ago

Comments from Scott Moonen for page https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/virtualization?topic=virtualization-advanced-single-site-vmware-reference-architecture

1) Table 17 is using the wrong Name. It should be dvpg-Primary-Public
2) The document equivocates on whether to use file or block storage. There are two mentions of 'iSCSI' and two mentions of 'file storage.' We need to consult with the original author (???) on the intention here.
    a) If the intention is to offer file storage, then we should scrub the iSCSI references and rename the storage portgroup to remove 'A'.
    b) If the intention is to offer iSCSI storage, then there are a lot more changes needed. For example, we need to add a new step to create a 'B' portgroup, as well as other steps to enable iSCSI. There is existing doc on setting up iSCSI, but it doesn't take advantage of multipath. I don't think that is currently documented externally, though I have written a blog post on how to do this.

My view is the fixup effort may be simpler if we drop the iSCSI and 'A' references and simply rely on NFS. Multipath iSCSI is somewhat advanced.