StarWind Software

Hi,
I havean infrastructure currently in production this way:

1.-Balancer hardware.
2.- 2 IIS Front Servers (aspx)
3.- 2 SQL BackEnd Servers in cluster.

The data of servers (IIS and SQL) is in NetApp storage.

My question.
As I can simulate this virtual scenario to make a test?, we must keep in mind that I do not have the balancer or the storage. There any alternatives to simulate these two software hardware?
Thanks

Not sure what you want StarWind to do with your scenario. Looks like Microsoft TechNet is a more appropriate place to place your question. We just don't have enough of expertise and generally speaking specialize on supporting our own software solutions.

I mean, I can configure StarWind as a disk array with 2 servers simultaneous access to the same data?

Absolutely. Just make sure you understand what you're doing and your initiators both have cluster-aware access. For more see this:

http://www.starwindsoftware.com/forums/ ... t1392.html

thor.elpoderoso wrote:I mean, I can configure StarWind as a disk array with 2 servers simultaneous access to the same data?

And in the case of IIS Wwwroot I can access it at once?
Thanks

As you're not accessing the LUN in block mode and rather using IIS as a NAS wrapper over SAN the answer is YES.

thor.elpoderoso wrote:And in the case of IIS Wwwroot I can access it at once?
Thanks

Thank you. Is there any configuration document of a similar scenario?

You're welcomed to check here:

http://www.starwindsoftware.com/technical-papers

For anything cluster configuration related and also about NAS overwrapping. Both are close things to what you do. No IIS exact manual however. Sorry for this.

thor.elpoderoso wrote:Thank you. Is there any configuration document of a similar scenario?

hi, the problem is how do I configure the StarWind for multiple servers to simultaneously access the same data, there is a cluster, I simulate a storage.

You just install it, create a LUN and connect with iSCSI initiators from the different hosts. That's all. Everything is referenced in the manuals I gave link to.

thor.elpoderoso wrote:hi, the problem is how do I configure the StarWind for multiple servers to simultaneously access the same data, there is a cluster, I simulate a storage.

Thanks Anton.

I connect both IIs01/IIs02 iSCSI servers and both see Storage unit, but if I write from the IIS01 do not see it in the IIS02 and vice versa.
Something wrong do not you?


Target Alias: TG_IIS
Storage Type: Hard Disk
Device Type: Basic Virtual
Device Type: Image File Device
Device Creation Method: Create new virtual disk
Virtual Disk parameters:

-- My Computer\D\DATA_IIS.img
-- Size in MBs: 1000
-- Compressed
-- Asynchronous mode
-- Allow multiple concurrent iSCSI connections (clustering)
Image File device cache parameters: Write-back caching

Target: iqn.2008-08.com.starwindsoftware:SERVER01-TG_IIS


Thanks

You need to configure CSV on top of the shared LUN and then you'll have everything working.

and how is that done?

Everything was in the links I already gave. Here are some from MS sites for 2008 R2 and 2012. See:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/libr ... 59255.aspx

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/libr ... 12868.aspx

thor.elpoderoso wrote:and how is that done?

But for that I need a cluster not, I do not want cluster