Question about HA Device - Newb

[JohanvdMerwe]

Hi

I have followed the following link: http://www.starwindsoftware.com/images/ ... ervers.pdf steps in creating a High Availability Device. I have successfully followed the steps in the document up to page 18. I do not want to create a failover cluster, but only require a HA device that will synchronise whatever is on the one disc with the other. Unfortunately if I copy lets say a Word file on the Generic disk R on server S2N1 it is not automatically synchronised to the disk Generic R on S2N2. Is that normal?
As I understand it, the disks are in sync and whatever is copied to one should be replicated to the other. As mentioned, I am only interested in the HA part, not really in the Failover Clustering.

Thanks
Regards

Johan

[anton (staff)]

Did you mount the same iSCSI volume on both nodes and expecting the content being accessible by both @ the same time?

Hi

I have followed the following link: http://www.starwindsoftware.com/images/ ... ervers.pdf steps in creating a High Availability Device. I have successfully followed the steps in the document up to page 18. I do not want to create a failover cluster, but only require a HA device that will synchronise whatever is on the one disc with the other. Unfortunately if I copy lets say a Word file on the Generic disk R on server S2N1 it is not automatically synchronised to the disk Generic R on S2N2. Is that normal?
As I understand it, the disks are in sync and whatever is copied to one should be replicated to the other. As mentioned, I am only interested in the HA part, not really in the Failover Clustering.

Thanks
Regards

Johan

[JohanvdMerwe]

Hi Anton,

Yes, that is wht I meant.

Regards

Johan

[anton (staff)]

You cannot do this. See:

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

Making long story short either put content on a CSV so one node will have block access and others will have redirected (thru SMB) access or
configure a failover cluster for SMB share on top of an HA volume. That would make the trick done. See:

http://www.starwindsoftware.com/configu ... or-smb-nas

Should be handy!

Hi Anton,

Yes, that is wht I meant.

Regards

Johan

[JohanvdMerwe]

Thanks for the reply, it is much appreciated.

[Anatoly (staff)]

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