VMware vCenter/vSphere Essentials package (meaning 3 hosts, software upgrades
but no support)
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Sean Martin
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 7:52 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Windows File Server High-Availability
Which virtualization product are you using?
- Sean
On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 8:41 AM, Kish n Kepi <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]> > wrote:
Hello All,
My boss requested that I make our File Server highly available.
We currently have a physical server running Windows 2012, with shares published
using DFS. The server has large quantities of DAS, some of which are shared
primarily for IT dept use, and is connected to an 8 TB SAN which has the main,
most used, share.
I know that I can go out and purchase another physical file server and connect
it to the same SAN LUN and finish the requirement.
Besides acting as a file server, this server also serves WSUS and WDS.
However, I’m thinking that it may make more sense to create 2 VMs on 2 existing
separate physical hosts and create a cluster . The question is how I’d attach
the SAN LUN to the virtual cluster. Would I need to create a virtual disk on
the SAN, attach it to the cluster and copy the contents of the shares into that
virtual disk? The downside of a virtual disk is that once created, it’s
difficult to resize if necessary, and unwieldy to copy/move to a new SAN that
we will certainly need to get eventually.
Any input for either scenario welcome, and I certainly will embrance any new
ideas of how to accomplish this task.
Kish N Kepi
