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thor.elpoderoso · Wed Aug 07, 2013 1:58 pm

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

Wed Aug 07, 2013 9:23 pm

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.

thor.elpoderoso · Sat Aug 10, 2013 5:28 pm

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

Sun Aug 11, 2013 5:41 pm

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?

thor.elpoderoso · Mon Aug 12, 2013 7:45 am

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

Mon Aug 12, 2013 8:18 am

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

thor.elpoderoso · Mon Aug 12, 2013 11:49 am

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

Tue Aug 13, 2013 9:23 am

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?

thor.elpoderoso · Sat Aug 17, 2013 3:43 pm

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.

Sat Aug 17, 2013 4:27 pm

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.

thor.elpoderoso · Sun Aug 18, 2013 4:54 pm

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

Sun Aug 18, 2013 7:53 pm

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

thor.elpoderoso · Sun Aug 18, 2013 7:59 pm

and how is that done?

Sun Aug 18, 2013 8:12 pm

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?

thor.elpoderoso · Wed Aug 21, 2013 10:12 am

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