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  1. #1

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    hi,

    when your primary is back and running from the secondary start sync volumes and after it finishes press the failback button. there is only manual failback possible.

    melik

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    Quote Originally Posted by melik
    hi,

    when your primary is back and running from the secondary start sync volumes and after it finishes press the failback button. there is only manual failback possible.

    melik
    Melik,

    This is not exactly what i ment.

    We have got 2 servers set up here, both running open-e with 1 iSCSI target, replication enabled. iSCSI Failover is also set-up, it works great, even with a virtual machine running at the moment the primary node fails.

    But we wanted to have a 2 way iSCSI Failover, with on both servers 1 target and 1 replication target. At the moment node 1 fails, node 2 will take over the target from node 2. On the other side if node 2 fails, node 1 will take over the target from node 2.

    Is it possible to set this up, or is it only possible to have 1 server set up as a primary and 1 as a secondary node?

    Greetings!

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    Melik,

    This is not exactly what i ment. I think my question was a bit off, so i will ask it again my bad!

    We have got 2 servers set up here, both running open-e with 1 iSCSI target, replication enabled. iSCSI Failover is also set-up, it works great, even with a virtual machine running at the moment the primary node fails.

    But we wanted to have a 2 way iSCSI Failover, with on both servers 1 target and 1 replication target. At the moment node 1 fails, node 2 will take over the target from node 2. On the other side if node 2 fails, node 1 will take over the target from node 2.

    Is it possible to set this up, or is it only possible to have 1 server set up as a primary and 1 as a secondary node?

    Greetings!

  4. #4

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    Currently it is not possibly.

  5. #5

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    I have made an image which hopefully will explain it a bit better.

    http://img651.imageshack.us/img651/6...openesetup.jpg

    This is how our customer wants to have it!

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    You are describing an active/active configuration. Unfortunately, this won't work with automatic HA, but it may work if you can deal with manual failover.

  7. #7

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    enealDC is correct you would want to use only volume replication side of it.
    All the best,

    Todd Maxwell


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