Win2008 Clustering

[damascus405]

Hi All,

I was wondering if anyone can assist offer advice on this question. Is there a way where you can configure and use EMC storage as the shared disk (quorum) for a windows 2008 cluster. the EMC is just a SANs storage device Apologies in advance if this is a stupid question.

Thanks in advance.

 

[kmcferrin]

If it's a typical SAN then you can present a LUN as the witness disk and use the node + disk majority quorum model. If it's a NAS then you can't directly present the LUN, but you might still be able to use it as a file share for a Node + File Share majority quorum model.

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[mrdenny]

If it's an EMC SAN then yes you can use this to present storage to the server.

Create a Host in Navisphere and add both nodes of the cluster to it. Then add the storage to the host. Do a SCSI rescan on the nodes and the storage will be presented to both. You can then format the storage (only do this on one node) and setup the cluster.

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