Re: SAN storage

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From: Gerald Aigenbauer (ga_at_ntc.at)
Date: 01/14/05 

Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 13:21:47 +0100

hi!

one "physical" reported disk from the san storage can only be used on one
cluster system. so you can report four physical disks to the four clusters
for quorum usage and implement on each physical disk a partition.

gerald aigenbauer.

"slawal" <slawal@discussions.microsoft.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:D5555499-A100-4BDB-A0AB-DE230DAB7834@microsoft.com...
>i have a SAN storage and i intend to host four 2 node clusters on this
> storage.My intention was to use one of the raid configuration on the SAN
> which is a raid 1 for the Quruom of all the four clusters by creating
> different partitions on the raid for each cluster Quriuom, does this pose
> any
> problem. Because i read on the microsoft site not to allow multiple host
> to
> access the same storage unless they are in the same cluster. Can someone
> help
> me with this issue and advice me if my plan will cause problems.
>
> Slawal

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