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Assistance with setting up server 19.
- Thanks for the extra info, now i understand it,
you can use storage pools to secure your ISCSI target
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/storage-spaces/overview
RAID is not going to be good enough
https://serverfault.com/questions/448404/iscsi-distributed-raid
"Storage Spaces is a technology in Windows and Windows Server that can help protect your data from drive failures. It is conceptually similar to RAID, implemented in software. You can use Storage Spaces to group three or more drives together into a storage pool and then use capacity from that pool to create Storage Spaces. These typically store extra copies of your data so if one of your drives fails, you still have an intact copy of your data. If you run low on capacity, just add more drives to the storage pool."
Greetings,
The 2 nodes in the cluster currently only have a file sharing role. We dont have any hyper-V or SQL Roles right now.
My biggest question is what happens if the storage disk or PC housing the ISCSI Target were to fail. Is there some type of fail-over or safety for that situation?
Thank you
you have 2 servers that are using a regular PC as a file server, and you are asking what happens when that PC or its components go down?
if that's the case then when that PC goes down, both of your servers naturally lose connectivity to that file server which is a PC.
i'd suggest to do this the other way around.
set up file sharing role on both of your servers, add cluster failover role, create a cluster shared volume, make it highly available and fail safe with the help of those 2 servers,
then connect it to that PC using ISCSI.
in this situation, the user behind the PC won't experience any downtime and will have access to the file server should either of those servers fail.
no, i have one pc that is acting as a storage box with external hard drives holding the file share location.
The two clustered pcs are both connected to the storage box using the ISCSI Initiator. The 2 pcs are clustered with high availability and the file share role where the location of the file share is a drive on the storage box.
The question is, how do i go about getting some sort of disk replication and fail-over capability if the storage disk or pc housing the storage fails.
The only way i could get the fail-over cluster to work was to have the storage be on a third computer and use the ISCSI Target/Initiator to get a shared storage.
- Thanks for the extra info, now i understand it,
you can use storage pools to secure your ISCSI target
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/storage-spaces/overview
RAID is not going to be good enough
https://serverfault.com/questions/448404/iscsi-distributed-raid
"Storage Spaces is a technology in Windows and Windows Server that can help protect your data from drive failures. It is conceptually similar to RAID, implemented in software. You can use Storage Spaces to group three or more drives together into a storage pool and then use capacity from that pool to create Storage Spaces. These typically store extra copies of your data so if one of your drives fails, you still have an intact copy of your data. If you run low on capacity, just add more drives to the storage pool."
