Microsoft Cluster

kirpi4 · Mon Jul 18, 2011 6:19 pm

Hello

Will Starwind free edition support csv and mpio for two nodes and one storage?? I want to use it for Hyper-V cluster. Thanks.

Tue Jul 19, 2011 7:41 am

Yes. That was a plan.

kirpi4 wrote:Hello

Will Starwind free edition support csv and mpio for two nodes and one storage?? I want to use it for Hyper-V cluster. Thanks.

bogart · Thu Jul 28, 2011 6:45 am

I have been trying to get this to work since May, and have not been successful so far. I cannot get the drives to go online on the second node after adding them to the first node - when the first node is down. The last try - with 5.7.1721 this week - worked ok on the first node, but when I connected on the second node, the drives did not appear in Disk Management, and Computer Management became unresponsive. The node would not shutdown after this also.

If there is a trick or secret handshake to make this work, I would really like to know. It would be great to be able to use this with Hyper-V to test upgrading SQL Server clusters, service packs, etc. before doing it on Prod systems.

Thu Jul 28, 2011 1:59 pm

There's no secret handshake or whatever. And there's little or no sense in trying to do something for 2 months, failing and not letting support know. Please find StarWind manual on how to setup Windows cluster for your OS (2003 or 2008 they are different just a bit) and follow it step-by-step. If you'd fail again just let us know where exactly. And make sure you do provide both Windows cluster validation and StarWind own logs for failed attempt sequence. Should help a bit to troubleshoot your issue and put a bit more light on why it happens this way.

bogart wrote:I have been trying to get this to work since May, and have not been successful so far. I cannot get the drives to go online on the second node after adding them to the first node - when the first node is down. The last try - with 5.7.1721 this week - worked ok on the first node, but when I connected on the second node, the drives did not appear in Disk Management, and Computer Management became unresponsive. The node would not shutdown after this also.

If there is a trick or secret handshake to make this work, I would really like to know. It would be great to be able to use this with Hyper-V to test upgrading SQL Server clusters, service packs, etc. before doing it on Prod systems.

hixont · Wed Aug 17, 2011 9:36 pm

I had no problems getting the Hyper-V Cluster Shared Volumes to work with StarWind. I used StarWind's documentation (to setup the SAN components) and Windows Server 2008 R2 Unleashed (to setup Hyper-V and CSVs) as my reference materials during my initial install and planning.

Wed Aug 17, 2011 9:42 pm

It's part of the Junior Engineer exam here @StarWind BTW.

hixont wrote:I had no problems getting the Hyper-V Cluster Shared Volumes to work with StarWind. I used StarWind's documentation (to setup the SAN components) and Windows Server 2008 R2 Unleashed (to setup Hyper-V and CSVs) as my reference materials during my initial install and planning.