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Windows 2003 cluster
Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2004 5:41 pm
by 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 ?
Re: Windows 2003 cluster
Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2004 10:20 pm
by Val (staff)
mike wrote: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).
windows2003 clusters
Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2004 1:17 pm
by 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
Re: windows2003 clusters
Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2004 1:44 pm
by Val (staff)
Anonymous wrote: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!
Please let us know if you have any questions or troubles with our software.
Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2004 12:27 am
by 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
Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2004 1:59 am
by Val (staff)
Chris wrote: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.