Hi All,
I'm glad to let you know that current StarWind version (2.4.0 build 0x20040809) works good with MS Clusters.
You can download the updated version from our StarWind download page.
http://www.rocketdivision.com/download_ ... oad&prod=2
Here is a short step-by-step description How to build a MS Cluster with 2 nodes using StarWind based iSCSI storage:
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1) Install 2 Win2003 EE machines and set up them according to MS Clustering documentation.
2) Install MS iSCSI initiator (it can be any other iSCSI initiator, for
example, RDS StarPort) on both of the Win2003 Enterprise Edition
servers.
3) Install RDS StarWind server to your storage server.
4) Create a hard drive iSCSI target with StarWind. For now you can do
this "by hands". Just add a line like follows to your StarWind.conf
file:
add ImageFile1 -file:"j:\temp\image1.dat" -clustered:yes
and restart your StarWindService.
Attention: Only ImageFile StarWind devices support clustering for now!
5) On one of your Win2003 machines mount the remote disc with MS iSCSI initiator. Don't forget to mark the device as a "Persistent Target".
6) Make a partition on the drive, format it to NTFS and assign a drive letter.
7) Dismount the target from the server with MS iSCSI GUI and mount it
from the other server as a persistent target too and assign the same
drive letter for it.
8) Then mount the disc from the first server again.
9) Start Cluster Administrator and follow the MS's instructions howto
create a cluster with a physical disk Quorum. Use the StarWind based
volume as your Quorum device.
10) Add the second node to the cluster.
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The cluster should be OK after the previous steps.
I hope this information will help you a bit.
Any feedback is highly appreciated. ))
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