MSCS Clustering issue

[westredd]

Hi,

I have just set up a 2 node active/passove cluster and am testing it out.

The cluster set up fine in cluster administrator.

I wanted to test it, so I wrote some files to the shared storage. I then failed over to node 2. when I look at the shared storage on node 2, I dont see the files that I have written to the shared storage from node 1. Anyone seen this? When I fail back to node 1, they are there again.

thanks

West

 

[ntinlin]

Are you absolutely sure that the shared storage is pointing to the same LUN's?

Neill

 

[westredd]

Thanks for your answer.

Its in a vmware environment. Ive set up the cluser using the Vmware MSCS guidline doc using a virtual disk as shared storage.

Both nodes are on the same physical esx host.
The shared storage is a virtual disk.
Both nodes are configured through SCSI (1:1) to the shared storage.

 

[westredd]

I have checked the SCSI disk device properties on both nodes.
They both match showing:

Bus Number 0, Target ID 1, LUN 0

 

[pagy]

Can you post the contents of the vmware config file for each VM in the cluster please..

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[TechyMcSe2k]

Were the drives zero'd out and did you setup the private network for heartbeat? Also, did you create 2 shared disks? one for Quorum and one for data?

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[TechyMcSe2k]

Also check out the Appendix: Setup Checklist at the end of the guide.

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[westredd]

Can you post the contents of the vmware config file for each VM in the cluster please..

Yes , I will do that tomorrow, thanks for offering to take a look

Were the drives zero'd out and did you setup the private network for heartbeat? Also, did you create 2 shared disks? one for Quorum and one for data?

Yes, I used VMKFSTOOLS command at the service console to create and zero out the vdisks.

Yes, I created the private network on its own vswitch away from the public network.

Yes, there are 2 shared disks configured. The quorom and the data. The Qourom is set to SCSI (1:0) and the data is SCSI (1:1). I am thinking of trying the data drive on another LSI controller to make data disk SCSI (2:0).

Also check out the Appendix: Setup Checklist at the end of the guide.

ok, thanks will do.