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November 30th, 2010 10:00

Quorum/shared volume access

Hi guys/gals,

We have several web servers that are using Tomcat to serve web traffic and we'd like to move all of the separate Tomcat source code on each server to a shared volume of the SAN, consolidating the amount of code developers need to modify when we make production changes. What I'd like to know is if Windows clustering will be able to provide a solution. Obviously, it's going to have to be an Active/Active/Active/Active cluster. Also, will all the cluster nodes be able to read/write to the same quorum (SAN volume)?

 

Thanks!

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    Posted November 30th, 2010 10:00

    Forgot to mention that our SAN is a PS4000.

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    Posted November 30th, 2010 11:00

    Microsoft Cluster Services (MSCS) only allows 1 cluster node at a time to have access to a disk (volume on the Equallogic SAN). So, to make a 4-node active/active/active/active cluster, you'd have to run 4 shares; each off of it's own disk/volume/drive-letter and obviously with it's own data.

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    Posted November 30th, 2010 11:00

    Understood.

    Is there any way or any product that will be able to manage multiple connections to the same SAN volume? I was under the impression that Windows Clustering was the way to get me there.

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    Posted November 30th, 2010 16:00

    How about using CSV in a Windows 2008 R2 cluster? From everything I'm reading it looks like this may work. Let me know what you think...

     

    "A Cluster Shared Volume is a standard Cluster disk containing an NTFS volume that is made accessible for read and write operations by all nodes within the cluster."

    "CSV operates by redirecting I/O operations from the node with ownership of the VM (Active Node) to the node with ownership of the LUN (Co-Ordinator Node)[1]. The IO Operations are passed between nodes via Server Message Block. All operations from all active nodes must be passed over SMB to the co-ordinator node, then passed again to the shared storage via Shared SCSI, iSCSI, Fibre Channel or other Multi-initiator storage method."

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    Posted December 1st, 2010 06:00

    Also; CSV is only for use for storing VMs; no other applications/services can use CSVs.