W8K Cluster

[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

[cphastings]

Thanks for putting all your work into CuppaT, you are doing exactly what I am planning to do! Your results are exactly what I was afraid of.

[CuppaT]

No worries, cphastings, I am now running a full HA Hyper-V cluster, but (and it is a big but) I have not been able to go down the preferred route of CSV's.

I hope it won't be long before someone from open-e updates this thread with some info on the last remaining issue to be ironed out...