Re: New 2 Clustering

From: niamh (niamh_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 12/01/04 

Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 01:23:05 -0800

Rodney,
Managing Exchange Storage with the Windows Storage Server 2003 Feature Pack
white paper states that clustering exchange on NAS is supported.
>From article :
"The feature pack enables Exchange cluster deployment without the expense of
a SAN; two cluster nodes can share the Windows Storage Server 2003 device to
provide reliable shared storage for the cluster nodes, a benefit that up
until now was only available using traditional Fibre Channel-based SANs"

I am trying it but I can't find a way of having the storage seen as disks
rather than shares which is what clustering requires.

Any ideas ?

"Rodney R. Fournier [MVP]" wrote:

> Correct :)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rod
>
> MVP - Windows Server - Clustering
> http://www.nw-america.com - Clustering
> http://msmvps.com/clustering - Blog
>
> "Eddie" <Eddie@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:44490693-1C9B-46D8-9797-EB4B6248A7F7@microsoft.com...
> > Thanks Rodney, So the answer is clustering needs a shared drive other than
> > the local hard drives. and it cant be a NAS only scsi or FC on a storage
> > array.
> >
> > "Rodney R. Fournier [MVP]" wrote:
> >
> >> First I would suggest reading Technical Overview of Windows Server 2003
> >> Clustering Services -
> >> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/techinfo/overview/clustering.mspx
> >>
> >> Next you will need external storage for the cluster to SHARE. I would
> >> call
> >> Dell ask what would be certified for your existing hardware, probably the
> >> Powervault 220. You can use SCSI Based or SAN. Not NAS though.
> >>
> >> If you can carve out disks of whatever you end of buying, then 500MB is
> >> fine
> >> for the quorum disk. The quorum will be on the shared disk(s) and not
> >> locally.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> Rod
> >>
> >> MVP - Windows Server - Clustering
> >> http://www.nw-america.com - Clustering
> >> http://msmvps.com/clustering - Blog
> >>
> >> "Eddie" <Eddie@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:3E0EDFF1-D48E-4934-9AE7-7DA82F44604F@microsoft.com...
> >> > Hardware: 2 Dell 1650's exactly the same boxes
> >> >
> >> > Question: In a 2 node cluster for Fail over a shared drive needs to be
> >> > inplace for the cluster information. Where can this info be stored?
> >> > i.e.
> >> > SCSI
> >> > ARRAY, SAN, NAS, or both servers have a small partition lets say 500 mb
> >> > can
> >> > the quorum be there on both servers?
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
>
>

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