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Shared storage for Server 2008 Cluster on ESX 3.5

Did someone manage to use a shared disk (created as thick disk) in a Windows 2008 Cluster ?

It works perfectly on Server 2003 but doesn't seem to work on Server 2008 ....

I am running ESX 3.5 and Server 2008 Datacenter Edition

Naga Bhanu Kiran Kota

Hi

When you say shared disk did you edit the vmx files for the nodes in cluster to ensure that they have different luns attached to the machines. Did you try to check if data can be written to the shared disks.

Are you getting any errors

bhanu

titanmike

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Different luns ?
Let me explain what I did on Server 2003 in order to make it work.

I have created a new "shared" disk on the ESX server

vmkfstools -d thick -a lsilogic -c 10G /vmfs/volumes/<path>/shared_disk.vmdk

Attached this to both virtual machines, gave it the SCSI ID 1,0 on both and changed the newly created SCSI controller to "virtual" or "physical" sharing (physical as I use HA / DRS so both machines are not necessarily on the same server).

I did not change any VMX files ...

titanmike

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Just read something on the vmware forums :(

"Windows Server 2008 is not support SCSI-2 type anymore (Parallel SCSI) so even using RDM is not support also...
iSCSI, FC and SAS are support on Windows Server 2008
so if you want to setup Windows Server 2008 Clustering on ESX you have to present the LUN directy to the guest by using iSCSI or using NPIV...."

Doesn't look good it seems

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