Re: Create a cluster later?
- From: "Chuck Timon [Microsoft]" <ctimon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 07:42:06 -0400
Nope. You will need to carve up your array in such a manner as to have one
disk for the quorum disk and another disk for the file shares. Now,
depending how you want to do this, you may want to consider dividing the
file shares up across two disks in which case you will now need to carve out
three disks. This would allow for the quorum disk in the cluster group and
a disk in each of two file share groups so these groups can be spread across
both nodes of the cluster. Your storage array sounds like it may support
this config with 2-disks for a mirrored quorum drive and 3-disks each for
the RAID 5 file share disks. It all depends on how the storage vendor will
allow you to carve up the array. FIBRE attached storage in the form of a
SAN is more friendly in this way than SCSI attached storage.
--
Chuck Timon, Jr.
Microsoft Corporation
Longhorn Readiness Team
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
"Jeff T" <JeffT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks for the reply.
The way I see it, a cluster is not mirroring. My two servers will share an
external RAID array (which will have data such as shares and home
directories). My external array has 12 slots which 8 are occupied by
drives
and it has two SCSI connections. Both servers will be connected to this
RAID
array and I will configure RAID 5 with one partition; as currently the E
drive has all the shares and home directories which will eventually be on
the
external RAID array. Each of the two servers will have their own C drive
for
the OS (which btw is a RAID 1). Is my setup correct for the hard drive
requirements.
Thanks again.
Jeff
"Russ Kaufmann" wrote:
"Jeff T" <JeffT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have a new Windows 2003 member server. This server holds the home
directories and shares. Because of what this server stores on it I
would
like
redundancy of clustering it with another duplice (hardware & os)
server.
Can
a cluster this server even after it is joined to the domain and
existing
shares? I would cluster it to an identical server.
Assuming you have Enterprise Ed, the proper storage and network
configurations, the answer would be yes.
Of course, I would move the data to the new shared storage, delete the
shares on the server, and recreate the shares on the cluster.
--
Russ Kaufmann
MVP - Windows Server - Clustering
ClusterHelp.com, a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner
Web http://www.clusterhelp.com
Blog http://msmvps.com/clusterhelp
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