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Trying to create scsi disk for ms sql cluster setup

Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2014 12:49 pm
by ggolub
hello Forum,
I am trying to setup scsi disk to be used later for ms sql server failover cluster.
My environment: 1 host with vm vmware guest server 2012 where I am setting up a disk. 2nd host with 2 vm's server 2012 which are nodes of the windows cluster.
Can I use StarWind free adition for it? Which type of disk I should be creating?
As I understand, this disk will have to be acessed through scsci initiator by nodes hosts and mounted by cluster.

Thank you for your help, Gene.

Re: Trying to create scsi disk for ms sql cluster setup

Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2014 9:58 pm
by anton (staff)
You can use StarWind free here but honestly having shared storage as a single point of failure is flaky. Use 2-way mirror (HA) and you'll be fine. You'll be able to "spoof" huge amounts of RAM and flash cache to have pretty much In-Memory SQL and also you'll have cheaper and faster AlwaysOn equivalent.