Hi,

We're currently investigating Open-E as a solution for our iSCSI backend for Xen virtual machines. We want to know if and how the following setup is possible :

- Using a dualcontroller FC array (Infortrend) as storage backend.
- Two Open-E iSCSI servers both import half of the capacity of the backend array and vitualize / export this as iSCSI...two servers to increase performance.
- Use one extra Open-E iSCSI server as a spare.

I guess normally you would replicate to give a spare server access to the same data as the active server, but in this case there's nothing to replicate I guess because of the FC array having all data on it.
What I would like to know is how to get that spare server take over the job in case one of the active servers fails...is it possible and how do we do this...if there's any estimate for the time it takes I would like to know that as well...

Thanks in advance and regards,

Werner Reuser
XL-Data Hosting, Development & Consultancy