W8K Cluster

[Robotbeat]

I'm also looking to see if this works for anyone.

[marcinrozanski]

Our customer was getting first :

"Failed to Register PR key for cluster disk"

so we upgraded to DSS V6 and now he's getting:

"Storage does not support SCSI page 83h VPD descriptors for cluster disk "

I've advised to remove bondig on eth ports and see how it goes, but I can't sey that customer is happy about this.

Martin

[cphastings]

I don't know about anyone else, but this is a huge dealbreaker for me. My plan is to cluster my Hyper-V Servers and I can't do that until this is resolved. Unless this is resolved I'm going to be forced to purchase a Dell or Equallogic SAN for twice the money, which is something I DON'T want to do!

[CuppaT]

I am using the DSS v6 trial, will be purchasing the upgrade shortly. Windows Server 2008 (& R2) clustering works fine, the only 'warning' now being presented is about the SCSI device Vital Product Data (VPD), I assume this functionality is being worked on currently? Could we have an update from the team pertaining to how this is going please?

[CuppaT]

Ignore previous message, if you are trying to do a Hyper-V based cluster with Cluster Shared Volumes, it does not appear to work, a guess time-line is now needed please open-e...

[CuppaT]

Ignore previous message, if you are trying to do a Hyper-V based cluster with Cluster Shared Volumes, it does not appear to work, a guess time-line is now needed please open-e...

Problem solved, I apologise for being too hasty...

[CuppaT]

Right, this is how it seems to working, or not!?

My earlier problem appeared to be an issue within the cluster, not realted to the open-e software at all. That is now resolved.

The problem I am having now, is as follows;

Three node Windows 2008 R2 Cluster, Cluster Shared Volumes enabled. Add a 1TB 'disk' to the cluster storage and then add that disk to the cluster shared volumes 'pool'. The Hyper-V machine is then configured to be highly available, success so far. Attempt to migrate the Hyper-V machine from server A to B fails. The CSV is supposed to accessible to all nodes within the cluster at the same time. This is not the case and I believe this is due to the current lack of 'SCSI device Vital Product Data (VPD )' support on the Open-E DSS V6 software.

Can someone from Open-E support either confirm my belief, or tell me that DSS V6 does support Windows Server 2008 R2 Clustering completely, including Cluster Shared Volumes?

Thank you

[tingshen]

OMG, this is exactly what I wanted to deploy......

Is it a bonding problem or any other problem?

Without CSV, Hyper-V R2 is almost the same as the useless Hyper-V. No live migration....no talk.....

Do you guys install core for all the Hyper-V R2 nodes or just pure Hyper-V Server R2?

[cphastings]

Well, as soon as this is fixed and I deploy R2 I will be running Server Core R2 Enterprise, because it gives you 4 free virtual licenses of Enterprise Server to run under Hyper-V.

To-M, still no answer on what is going on with this?

[cphastings]

Bump - no word from support on this issue?