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Setting up Hyper-V Cluster with iSCSI SAN

Hi Guys,

Okay so I've just got hold of a EMC AX4-5i (iSCSI) SAN and 2x DL360 G6 Servers for a lab I am trying to setup, I have been trying to build a Hyper-V Cluster using SAN Storage.

I have presented the storage to both of the servers:

1x 1Gb for Quorum
1x 500Gb for CSV
1x 600Gb for CSV

Both servers can see the drives but for some strange reason if I try and bring the drives online on server 1 all i get is "device not ready", if i go to server 2 i can bring the drives online and add into failover cluster manager fine, i deleted the virtual disks on the SAN and re-created all the connections and I got the same results but this time i could bring the drives online on server 2 but not 1!........but then I am presented with another problem where if I want to change the owner of the storage I get a "failed" within failover cluster manager and an error "Element not found".

There are two controllers in this SAN, I have patched in one iSCSI port on each controller to each server (see attached, sorry for the very poor graphic!).

I'm used to managing a Hyper-V Cluster but this is my first time in building one from top to bottom, I must be doing something wrong here!

Note: Both servers are running 2012 R2 Datacenter

Ian Taylor

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Ian Taylor

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Thanks, I'll try this.

Just to update you I moved the iscsi connections onto one controller and I managed to get the storage presented in and working via failover cluster manager.

I tried to present another LUN into the servers (500gig) disk management saw the drive but i got the "device not ready" even though my other LUNs (400Gig and 1Gig) are working