High Availability StarWind iSCSI

[johnnytan]

Hi, I would like to ask it is possible to do a 2-node failover webserver with HA iSCSI?

e.g.
I have 2 servers with StarWind installed and created a single 128GB HA iSCSI drive.
Then I have another 2 servers which will serve as webserver with MSSQL installed where the data will be saved and stored in the ISCSI drive.
1 of the server will be dormant as standby and will only run when the primary webserver is down.

I remember reading somewhere that iSCSI are to treat as a single 'hard disk' where they can't be plugged into 2 different server at the same time.

[Anatoly (staff)]

I can confirm that this is possible!

Please do not hesitate to contact usshould you have any additional questions. It would be our pleasure to further assist you!

[jtmroczek]

A quick note: What you want to do is setup a MSSQL Failover Cluster. Just installing SQL on 2 servers and switching the disk back and forth will not work. Use the HA iSCSI disk(s) as your cluster disk(s).

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/libr ... 79530.aspx

~joe

[Anatoly (staff)]

Nice link! Thanks for sharing!