Planning Stretch Cluster build : Storage questions for HA

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Hello,

I am trying to design a Redhat Enterprise Linux Stretch cluster which will consist of 2 or more VMWare virtual machines. The machines will live on hosts that are in two different COLO's inside of a large datacenter.

Each VMware host will be able to access the same compute, storage, and networking resources.

My question is in regards to the shared disk that the two or more VM's will need to use for the cluster. I was wondering if I could provision an iSCSI LUN from one array in each COLO , then use LVM on each VM to mirror the iSCSI disks in a Logical Volume . I am hoping this works , so we can have redundancy in the event that connectivity to a storage array was lost.

Would this scenario work, or would LVM not work between two different nodes?

Or is there a better way to ensure that the data is highly available and synchronized real-time ?

Thank you,

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