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March 26th, 2010 06:00

Support for Microsoft Cluster Shared Volumes

My Networker server and storage installation is a stand alone installation.  My questions are not about running the server in a cluster.  Only about having cluster components as clients.

I am in the process of building a Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 Hyper-V cluster.  To take advantage of many of the new features in R2, implementing Cluster Shared Volumes is a requirement.  I would like to add the physical cluster nodes as clients on my Networker server.  I read in the release notes for 7.5.2 that Cluster Shared Volumes are not supported in that release.  However, it also makes note of the following fix.

Issue Number: NW112141
Severity: 3 - Low
Status: Fixed
Problem Summary: Detect if Cluster Shared Volumes (CSVs) are configured on Windows 2008 R2

Additional Information

Product: NetWorker
Product Feature:
Configuration
Symptom: Detect if Cluster Shared Volumes (CSVs) are configured on Windows 2008 R2
Workaround or
Fix Summary:
Fixed in Code
Found in Version:
7.5.1
Fixed in Version:
7.5.2
Host OS Vendor:
Microsoft
Host OS:
Windows


I cannot find any reference to Cluster Shared Volumes in the documentation for 7.6 at all.  It says nothing about supported or not supported.

I have two questions:

1) Are Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) supported in 7.6?

2) What does "not supported" mean?  That it will not backup the CSV but the rest of the client will backup, that it wil not backup the client successfully, or that it will not install if CSVs are enabled?

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March 29th, 2010 12:00

Just what I needed to know.  This definitely helps, thanks!

The VMs are clients themselves at their OS level on the Networker server as well as being replicated at the SAN.  Support for the CSV is not an immediate need if the cluster node will still backup successfully.  It would be a nice feature in the future so I will submit the RFE. 

In the meantime, I'm hoping I will be able to configure a SKIP of the CSV volumes ("C:\ClusterStorage\*" or similar) on the client resource to alleviate the errors  in the backup report.

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