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amk316

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January 27th, 2009 21:00

MD3000i Virtual Disk mapping problem

Hello

Newbie in san here…

Just install MD3000i and configured it “may be” to have one virtual disk and added all physical disks to it as RAID 5, created one host group and added two hosts as non clustered windows 2003.

The problem is that when I copy a file to the san drive in one server I can’t see it in the other server and vice versa…

 

Thanks in advance….

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    Posted January 28th, 2009 08:00

    Hi,

    To start, can you detail what are you attempting to do?

    If trying to share files between servers then a shared file system needs to be used. Files are not shared on storage arrays by exposing the underlying LUN to multiple hosts.

    Or are you setting up a cluster?

    Dave

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    Posted January 30th, 2009 21:00

    Thank you for replaing...

    just one san two server no cluster....is it passble?

    reg,

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    Posted February 2nd, 2009 06:00

    The NTFS filesystem isn't cluster aware (unlike GFS or VMFS for instance).

     

    This means you CANNOT share SAN disk space between 2 (Windows) servers that aren't clustered. It will corrupt your filesystem/data.

     

    Destroy the host group and give each server it's own virtual disk. The 2 virtual disks can be in the same disk group though.

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    Posted February 3rd, 2009 15:00

    Also, if you'd like to share a volume then simply assign one server as the share point and share it through Windows.

    Dave

     

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