SAN storage level redundancy in Windows failover cluster possible ??
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Dear Team,
My customer planned to migrate existing file server to windows file server failover clustering. New Environments have DC and DR location, one windows node1 server in DC and another node2 in DR. We configured DC located SAN storage box providing 2 LUNs[1lun use for windows quorum and 1lun use for fileserver data] to mapped in both NODE1 DC and NODE2 DR. Now, server level cluster redundancy tested successfully.
Requirements ;
Customer need requirement for SAN storage level redundancy like entire setup goes down in DC location, They will run windows file server clustering in single node in DR location with help of storage replication luns from DC SAN storage to DR SAN storage. I have doubts ??Questions
- In windows failover clustering, if windows quorum LUN disks replicated from DC storage box to DR storage box. If my DC storage box goes down, so my windows quorum disks and my file data disks unavailable state that time i will mapping DR storage replicated windows quorum disks and file data disks to DR Windows cluster NODE2 means, windows cluster accept replication windows quorum disks, it is possible or not ?? help me
Provide your suggestions
Thanks
Ghani -
So you have two SANs? If not, you are missing the requirement for SAN level redundancy.
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Why are you replicating the SAN instead of the VM?
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Your SAN replication will actually break your DC protection. That should be a cluster. DCs have natural high availability, your SANs here are totally breaking the HA that the system has naturally.
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You could try using...
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@darek-hamann said in SAN storage level redundancy in Windows failover cluster possible ??:
You could try using StarWind VSAN Free instead XOSAN for hyperconvergence. Even though they say they do not officially support Xen hyperconverged, it should be technically possible, I believe.
@Darek-Hamann are you just repeating yourself? The issue is the client is now demanding HA at the SAN level, and from what @Ghani has said, it appears he only has 1 SAN in the environment.
So there is no way to provide HA at the SAN level.
The only way this could be done, is to connect enough local or DAS storage to the servers, migrate all of the data from the SAN to the servers and begin using HA from there.
Of course this will require migration time and configuration. It has nothing to do with @StarWind_Software or their vSAN until there is replicated storage to mirror.
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@darek-hamann said in SAN storage level redundancy in Windows failover cluster possible ??:
You could try using StarWind VSAN Free instead XOSAN for hyperconvergence. Even though they say they do not officially support Xen hyperconverged, it should be technically possible, I believe.
Should be, yes. But a lot of manual work to make it happen right now.
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@scottalanmiller I am terribly sorry for that double post. In fact, I was checking two threads (this one and https://mangolassi.it/topic/16439/xosan-with-xo-community-edition) in two different tabs of my web browser, and here something went wrong, if I can say so... I will amend that post above not to mislead anyone.
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@dims said in SAN storage level redundancy in Windows failover cluster possible ??:
@scottalanmiller I am terribly sorry for that double post. In fact, I was checking two threads (this one and https://mangolassi.it/topic/16439/xosan-with-xo-community-edition) in two different tabs of my web browser, and here something went wrong, if I can say so... I will amend that post above not to mislead anyone.
That makes more sense
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Yes, we have two DC SAN and DR SAN both configured with storage replication,Now, Failover cluster disks placed from DC SAN to Node1 and Node2 and When DC SAN goes down state, We will plan to map replicated windows quorum disks from DR SAN , if i will add replicated windows quorum disks means, it is possible to windows cluster start without any issues, ?? or replicated windows quorum disks is possible ???
