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High Availability StarWind iSCSI

Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 3:20 am
by 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.

Re: High Availability StarWind iSCSI

Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 11:25 am
by 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!

Re: High Availability StarWind iSCSI

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2014 6:59 pm
by 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

Re: High Availability StarWind iSCSI

Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2014 1:11 pm
by Anatoly (staff)
Nice link! Thanks for sharing!