good failover software?

galonga · Fri Dec 19, 2008 10:27 pm

Hi

We are searching for a failover software to run on 2003 SP2 that will not cost us an arm and a leg.

So far we only found solutions that were too expensicve or too simple.

What do you recommend? Thanks!

Sat Dec 20, 2008 11:32 am

Please describe your complete usage scenario. So we'll be able to point to one (if any). Thanks!

galonga · Sat Dec 20, 2008 1:59 pm

2 servers sharing a db: if one falls the other picks up

as simple as that

maybe 2003 windows clustering would do the trick?

Sat Dec 20, 2008 8:41 pm

Active-Passive Cluster. Both Windows 2003 and 2008 should work fine. We do support both clustering modes (w/o or with pers. reservations).

galonga wrote:2 servers sharing a db: if one falls the other picks up

as simple as that

maybe 2003 windows clustering would do the trick?

galonga · Sun Dec 21, 2008 5:28 pm

you mean I need to create a iscsi target BEFORE I create a cluster?

If that´s true that explains why I´m having such a hard time creating one.

Being a newbie truly sucks.

But other than regular windows clustering, do you know of another solution that might be easier to implement?

Sun Dec 21, 2008 8:03 pm

Please follow StarWind clustering manual.

galonga · Tue Dec 23, 2008 7:30 pm

We are trying to implement a simple failover solution. As requested we read the manual but is not working.

In fact, as soon as we connect the volume with microsoft´s iscsi initiator the system crashes.

We are running 2003 SP2 with Veritas 5.0 attached to a RAID-5 subsystem IBM EXP15 with 5 hard-disks. We created a volume with 2 images.

We are running the latest microsoft isci and starwind.

Below starwind´s log, right before the system crashed.

< truncated log has been removed by Anton >

Wed Dec 24, 2008 2:51 pm

Would you please send zipped log to support@rocketdivision.com and it's not clear what crashed - StarWind or MS iSCSI initiator?

http://www.starwindsoftware.com/forums/ ... .php?t=740

galonga · Mon Dec 29, 2008 1:42 pm

what crashed was the ENTIRE server

I´ll send the logs: sorry I had forgotten we are not supposed to send lengthy logs over here

Mon Dec 29, 2008 6:08 pm

Got the log and forwarded it to QA staff.

galonga · Tue Dec 30, 2008 11:44 am

thanks

actually what I realized is that the system goes up by crashing

that means that it keeps crashing but somehow going forward in the install procedure until we have a stable system

so far the system has been stable, although for some reason we can´t seem to connect more than 2 machines in a cluster: the 3rd says it can´t find the quorum disk we know it´s there

Mon Jan 05, 2009 4:53 pm

We have sent you download links to 4.0 RC build that includes the fix.
Please keep us updated.
Thanks.