Using starwind to share whole disk (not image) on server 08
Posted: Sun Dec 06, 2009 5:08 pm
Hi Guys,
Just have a question here. I hope this is the area to post.
Anyways, the other day I had a servers controller go down with a disk containing business data. Took the disk out, installed it in another server, and installed Starwind trial to get it setup. Anyways, the other server still had disks with a valid OS install on it, it's just controller that failed for the data disk. I installed Starwind and shared the disk (not as an image, but as the whole disk). Now I've read a few places when sharing a NTFS disk on a server that can read NTFS, corruption can occur from 2 instances trying to access it (one being the server that contains the disk, and one being the server running an iSCSI initiator).
Anyways, on the server hosting the disk, I went to disk management and removed the "Drive letter to access volume", so the server was aware of the disk, but there was no drive letter to access it. When I did this, does it stop the host OS from trying to access it? So it can be safely accesible via a iscsi initiator on another box?
I had this setup, and it was working, however since I was dealing with business data I didn't like the feeling that the NTFS disk/volume I was sharing could become corrupt so I stopped. Do I have anything to worry about? Sorry If I'm not more clear in my response.
Thanks guys
Stephen
Just have a question here. I hope this is the area to post.
Anyways, the other day I had a servers controller go down with a disk containing business data. Took the disk out, installed it in another server, and installed Starwind trial to get it setup. Anyways, the other server still had disks with a valid OS install on it, it's just controller that failed for the data disk. I installed Starwind and shared the disk (not as an image, but as the whole disk). Now I've read a few places when sharing a NTFS disk on a server that can read NTFS, corruption can occur from 2 instances trying to access it (one being the server that contains the disk, and one being the server running an iSCSI initiator).
Anyways, on the server hosting the disk, I went to disk management and removed the "Drive letter to access volume", so the server was aware of the disk, but there was no drive letter to access it. When I did this, does it stop the host OS from trying to access it? So it can be safely accesible via a iscsi initiator on another box?
I had this setup, and it was working, however since I was dealing with business data I didn't like the feeling that the NTFS disk/volume I was sharing could become corrupt so I stopped. Do I have anything to worry about? Sorry If I'm not more clear in my response.
Thanks guys
Stephen