Re: Question: Configuration of a Direct Connect SCSI Cluster.

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"DIAN_TECH" <DIANTECH@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I am looking at deploying two W2003 "Enterprise" Edition servers connected
> locally to a shared Disk system via SCSI. The operational scenerio is to
> introduce load balancing in the cluster so one application run on one
> server
> and another application on the other server. In the event of failure the
> failed application would be failover onto the other server.
>
> My question is in order to allow both servers to run in parallel with
> failover.
> Would I need to create a separate Cluster Group for each application in
> order to allow independant access to the application data drives located
> on
> shared storage ??

Each application would require its own cluster group with its own IP
resource, network name resource, and physical disk (assuming it needs
storage) resource. They each need their own cluster group so they can fail
over separately without impacting each other.

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