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good failover software?
Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 10:27 pm
by galonga
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!
Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 11:32 am
by anton (staff)
Please describe your complete usage scenario. So we'll be able to point to one (if any). Thanks!
it´s a very simple scenario
Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 1:59 pm
by galonga
2 servers sharing a db: if one falls the other picks up
as simple as that
maybe 2003 windows clustering would do the trick?
Re: it´s a very simple scenario
Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 8:41 pm
by anton (staff)
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?
you mean I need to create a iscsi target BEFORE ...
Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 5:28 pm
by galonga
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?
Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 8:03 pm
by anton (staff)
Please follow StarWind clustering manual.
we read the manual and all we get is crashes
Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 7:30 pm
by galonga
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 >
Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 2:51 pm
by anton (staff)
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
Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 1:42 pm
by galonga
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
Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 6:08 pm
by anton (staff)
Got the log and forwarded it to QA staff.
Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 11:44 am
by galonga
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
Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2009 4:53 pm
by Bohdan (staff)
We have sent you download links to 4.0 RC build that includes the fix.
Please keep us updated.
Thanks.