Alright sorry again for taking so long.. I've done your changes you suggested and setup fail over. So two more questions.. When doing a fail over my virtual machine I had running didn't seem to like it.. is there supposed to be a bleep that the machines experience? Also my sans synced at 400megabytes a second which is what I set it to.. But I generally can only write to the system at 70 megabytes now.. Is there anything I should check to see why performance might degrade like this? I checked the speed with the settings and I was getting nearly 75% nic utilization before the fail over san was added. And it synced at a rather high speed so what could be slowing it down now? Also thanks Gr-R for your help thus far its been most helpful ^_^..