[SimpliVity & VME] Deploying Arbiter VM via KVM CLI
When delivering an HPE SimpliVity with VME (VM Essentials) 2-node cluster to an enterprise customer, you will almost invariably hear the client’s IT team request: “Please just host the Arbiter VM directly on the newly delivered SimpliVity nodes.” To an experienced systems engineer, this request highlights two critical architectural and commercial dilemmas. 1. The Field Dilemmas: Chicken-and-Egg & The Licensing Trap Dilemma 1: The Arbiter Must Exist Before SimpliVity Storage is Created A 2-node SimpliVity cluster requires active network communication with an Arbiter IP before the cluster creation wizard can even begin. If the SimpliVity nodes haven’t been initialized and no storage pool exists, where can you run the Arbiter VM? It is a classic chicken-and-egg paradox. ...