I'm not sure that's totally correct with regard to DFS. While DFS itself is
supported for CSV, that machine/cluster can not use Enterprise DFS, so it is
restricted to individual DFS namespaces. That turned out to be a show stopper
for us when we were trying to do a failover cluster for file services. If
there's a way around it I'd love to revisit but I didn't find a way.
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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of geoff_taylor geoff_taylor
Sent: Wednesday, October 5, 2016 10:20 AM
To: Liby Philip Mathew <[email protected]>; ntsysadm
<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] MS Cluster shared storage
Treat the cluster as you would anything else. It does not impose any
additional considerations over a standard drive. In fact to the app the fact
that there are two drives is invisible. Note that you cannot access the data
in both locations at the same time. The cluster owns the data and it directs
traffic to whichever node owns the resource at any given time.
Consider instead what that application you are using the drive for needs. If
you would normally use a CIFS drive do that. If you want DFS do that. ISCSI
is a little different as that is an access method rather than a configuration
of the drive. If you want a cluster for high availability or redundancy then
by all means include that if your application is cluster aware. If it is not
it can still be done with some work.
In short plan what is best for the application and then install it to a cluster
if that is desirable.
hth
gt
> ---------- Original Message ----------
> From: Liby Philip Mathew <[email protected]>
> Date: October 5, 2016 at 6:50 AM
>
>
> Hi,
> I am not well versed with MS Cluster.
> Basically I will be using a 2 node Windows cluster.
> The requirement is to have a shared storage (shared drive) that should
> be mapped to 2 nodes in the same time, where the application installed
> on those nodes can view the data located on this shared drive on the same
> time.
> Now the question is, how the shared drive should be configured?
> ISCSI, DFS etc. What are the pros & cons?
>
> Thanks you for any assistance
> Regards
> Mathew
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