Windows 2003 cluster

[mike]

I'm trying to setup a test environment for a Windows 2003 cluster. I have 1 domain controller, 2 clustered servers and a winxp pc acting as storage unit. On the storage unit I have an unformated SCSI disk that I was able to attach to one of the cluster node using Starwin and Starport. I did the partitioning and formating from the node and it worked wonderfull. Now I'm trying now to attach the same drive to the second node and I got stack....
Any hint ??? Should I use IMG files ?? and if so how do you create it ?

[Val (staff)]

I'm trying to setup a test environment for a Windows 2003 cluster. I have 1 domain controller, 2 clustered servers and a winxp pc acting as storage unit. On the storage unit I have an unformated SCSI disk that I was able to attach to one of the cluster node using Starwin and Starport. I did the partitioning and formating from the node and it worked wonderfull. Now I'm trying now to attach the same drive to the second node and I got stack....
Any hint ??? Should I use IMG files ?? and if so how do you create it ?

Mike,

Current StarWind version supports clustering (RESERVE/RELEASE) only for ImageFile devices.
Please look at the link to get more info about this:
http://www.starwindsoftware.com/forums/ ... c.php?t=84

Sharing of a hard drive with SPTI mode currently simply redirect all the SCSI opcodes to the device.
So it's up to the device to support RESERVE/RELEASE opcodes.
If the device does support them, so it will work in MS clustering environment.
But to allow multiple connections to the device you need to add '-sessions:X' to the 'add' tag for the device inside the StarWind.conf file and restart the service. (where X = 1-256)

I'd suggest you to use ImageFiles to share your storage (at least for now).

[Guest]

Thanks. I found a way to create a 5GB Image File and attached the 2 cluster members to it javascript:emoticon(':D')
Very Happy

[Val (staff)]

Thanks. I found a way to create a 5GB Image File and attached the 2 cluster members to it javascript:emoticon(':D')
Very Happy

Good news!

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[Chris]

This is interesting. So if I have a SCSI array attached to it which supports release/reserve, I can use it instead of image files?

Chris

[Val (staff)]

This is interesting. So if I have a SCSI array attached to it which supports release/reserve, I can use it instead of image files?

Chris

Chris,

Yes, if your hardware supports RESERVE/RELEASE it should work in such a configuration.