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Assistance with setting up server 19.
Greetings, I have installed windows server 19 on two computers for a fail-over cluster for my business. They have been connected to another PC being used for storage through the ISCSI Target/Init...
- 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."
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."
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."