Re: Shared Storage Device

From: Rodney R. Fournier [MVP] (rod_at_die.spam.die.nw-america.com)
Date: 02/25/05 

Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 23:18:45 -0600

Windows with the help of plug and play should handle having the drives on
only one machine. You may have to re-jumper the drives (like on a Dell
PowerVault 220S).

You will need a RAID controller though, a regular controller won't know what
to do with the array.

Cheers,

Rod

MVP - Windows Server - Clustering
http://www.nw-america.com - Clustering
http://www.msmvps.com/clustering - Blog

"Borikoy" <Borikoy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7D9507C4-798D-418A-8762-30D80F033A29@microsoft.com...
> If I will attached the shared disk to only one server
> and put data on it, will it be possible that I can recover and see the
> data
> in the storage device using the other server provided that I pull out the
> bus
> connector from the original server and plug it in the second server?Can I
> recover the data without configuring the RAID controller who manage to the
> shared storage disk?
>
> "Rodney R. Fournier [MVP]" wrote:
>
>> Let me recap here, you have a 2 node cluster with shared storage. You
>> want
>> to administer the disk(s) to do something without using the Cluster
>> Administrator?
>>
>> You can talk to the disk from the controlling node without the Cluster
>> Administrator. The two servers will not be able to talk to the shared
>> storage at the same time, only the controlling node will. This is called
>> the
>> shared nothing model.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Rod
>>
>> MVP - Windows Server - Clustering
>> http://www.nw-america.com - Clustering
>> http://www.msmvps.com/clustering - Blog
>>
>> "Borikoy" <Borikoy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:96947959-6156-4DB9-9344-B83B00BCA6C0@microsoft.com...
>> >I have two servers and a shared storage. Can it be possible if we will
>> >not
>> > used the cluster administrator to manage the shared storage disk?Will
>> > it
>> > be
>> > that the two servers can access the same shared storage device and the
>> > data
>> > saved on it?
>> >
>>
>>
>>

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