StarWind Software

Hello,

I have 2 Windows 2008 R2 machines that i plan to use for HA or Cluster. I installed a single node on one and it works perfectly fine with it but i wonder if it will work with HA on both.

What type of license should i use if i keep both at windows 2008 using compute and storage separated model?

Thanks,

You need another key for HA setup. Please refer to the document below it indicates the path for obtaining one.

https://www.starwindsoftware.com/styles ... s_Paid.pdf

We do consider bare metal setups as 100% production so you'll need commercial license.

P.S. It's recommended to upgrade to 2012 R2...

jpal wrote:Hello,

I have 2 Windows 2008 R2 machines that i plan to use for HA or Cluster. I installed a single node on one and it works perfectly fine with it but i wonder if it will work with HA on both.

What type of license should i use if i keep both at windows 2008 using compute and storage separated model?

Thanks,

thanks, i am thinking about that but i might end up buying new servers with windows 2012 instead. I would like these 2008 R2's to work though applying the 2 node license provided to me keeps giving an error of invalid platform and the other one invalid license file.

That's becasue you're trying to:

1) Use single-node key on both hosts to build HA setup. Would not work as 1-node setup cannot be used for HA.

2) Trying to use 2-node setup in "compute and storage separated" scenario (storage and hypervisor are physically segregated from each other). Would not work as 2-node
setup is intended to cover "Hyper-Converged" setup only.

jpal wrote:thanks, i am thinking about that but i might end up buying new servers with windows 2012 instead. I would like these 2008 R2's to work though applying the 2 node license provided to me keeps giving an error of invalid platform and the other one invalid license file.

ok, so how do i achieve the "compute and storage separated" scenario with HA setup with the servers i have? Hopefully i can get windows 2012 and have it ready this coming week.

Thanks again...

This is a commercial deployment and you cannot do it with a free version. One of the reasons why it's a bad idea to use free version as "evergreen" trial.

Download trial and proceed. 2008 R2 is still on the HCL.

jpal wrote:ok, so how do i achieve the "compute and storage separated" scenario with HA setup with the servers i have? Hopefully i can get windows 2012 and have it ready this coming week.

Thanks again...

thanks for clearing this up...

Uber-cool "Free Vs Paid" here:

https://www.starwindsoftware.com/styles ... s_Paid.pdf

The best way for you to go would be virtualizing these two for now "storage only hosts" and move from 2+2 to 4 hypervisor nodes with only two keeping storage.
Benefits: more CPU and RAM to your VMs. Eventually you'll get something like on the picture below:

jpal wrote:thanks for clearing this up...

i already know about that... i only wanted to see if it will work in our environment before proceeding. but thanks anyway...

Hello Jpal!

Please let me know if you have any questions left, thank you.