StarWind Software

Hello,

Architecture:
One NAS Server whith Windows 2003 R2 Storage Serveur and SarWind 3.1.4
Two SQL serveur whith Windows 2003 R2 x64 Enterprise Edition and Microsoft iSCSI Initiator

I create 2 IBvolume (1 for Quorum and the other a shared drive) on the NAS server.

Problems:
The problem I am encountering is that the two systems can not mount
the drives at the same time and when one system write data on the shared disk, the other dont see this data in real time.

itop wrote:I create 2 IBvolume (1 for Quorum and the other a shared drive) on the NAS server.

Problems:
The problem I am encountering is that the two systems can not mount
the drives at the same time and when one system write data on the shared disk, the other dont see this data in real time.

Hi,

The scenario you described can't work without a SAN filesystem or the MSCS installed.
SAN != SAN FS
So your client machines connected to the SAN disk are not aware of each other and think that use the shared disk exclusively. This can lead to damaged logical data structure of the volume(s) and data losses.

There are 2 ways how to use shared disks:
1) Use the MS cluster service.
2) Use a third-party SAN filesystem (like DataPlow SFS) or a distributed access manager (like TigerTech MetaSAN).