OK, that is mean at one time one drive will be accessable? it will work for cluster but not load balancing. for example if you setup two server as load balance not cluster?
the only option we will left is to use file server in that case?
You can only have the disk 'online' on 1 server at a time. So bring it online on 1 server, partition and format it, then take it back offline and go to the other server, rescan storage and bring the disk online to confirm it can see it (and optionally match up the drive letter with what the other server had).
Then you add the disk to your cluster in cluster management. After this the disk will show as 'reserved' and will be readable/writable on 1 server at a time.
The only way to get close to active/active access is to use Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV). With 2008 R2 CSV is limited to use by Hyper-V (Virtual Machines) only. For 2012/2012 R2 CSV can be used for some other applications/services as well, but with certain requirements/limitations.
Sajad Zafar
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January 6th, 2014 06:00
OK, that is mean at one time one drive will be accessable? it will work for cluster but not load balancing. for example if you setup two server as load balance not cluster?
the only option we will left is to use file server in that case?
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January 6th, 2014 06:00
You can only have the disk 'online' on 1 server at a time. So bring it online on 1 server, partition and format it, then take it back offline and go to the other server, rescan storage and bring the disk online to confirm it can see it (and optionally match up the drive letter with what the other server had).
Then you add the disk to your cluster in cluster management. After this the disk will show as 'reserved' and will be readable/writable on 1 server at a time.
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January 6th, 2014 20:00
The only way to get close to active/active access is to use Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV). With 2008 R2 CSV is limited to use by Hyper-V (Virtual Machines) only. For 2012/2012 R2 CSV can be used for some other applications/services as well, but with certain requirements/limitations.