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тАО07-09-2008 11:47 AM
тАО07-09-2008 11:47 AM
2012i Sharing data between servers
Any help would be great. At the end of the day, I need 4 2003 servers to share data on the volumes I have created on the MSAs.
Many thanks
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тАО07-09-2008 02:16 PM
тАО07-09-2008 02:16 PM
Re: 2012i Sharing data between servers
If I understood your query correctly, you are trying to map the same LUN to all the four host for read/write access??
As per the storage concept only one initiator can speak to a target at any given time. So if you are trying to give read/write access to all the 4 host at the same time and trying to map it on all the hosts then I would say its something which needs to checked.
Andy.
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тАО07-09-2008 04:10 PM
тАО07-09-2008 04:10 PM
Re: 2012i Sharing data between servers
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тАО07-09-2008 11:23 PM
тАО07-09-2008 11:23 PM
Re: 2012i Sharing data between servers
Many thanks so far!
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тАО07-10-2008 04:07 AM
тАО07-10-2008 04:07 AM
Re: 2012i Sharing data between servers
From the array side it is possible to do that, ie. assign a volume to all 4 hosts. But on each host you need to ensure that the volume is in use by the primary server in r/w mode and just visible by the other servers. If your primary server crashes then you need to change the volume on the OS side to be the r/w volume for the new primary server. You need to verify that in your OS.
If you OS does not provide a safe way to have the volume available for a failover, you do not need to make the volume available to all 4 servers up front. You make the volume available to one server and if that server crashes, you can assign it to another server instantly on the array side.
On another note what kind of data resides on such a volume? If it is "open" data such as a database, you have to go through a recovery process within the database as well. There could inconsistencies on some simple files with other applications as well.
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тАО07-10-2008 07:39 AM
тАО07-10-2008 07:39 AM
Re: 2012i Sharing data between servers
The data is just backup data.
So this is what I have done so far:
On server A I see my MSA as Drive D. i created a folder called backup, and then copied a few test accounts into the folder.
On Server B I also had the D drive (same Volume), but no folders can be seen that I created on Server A.
But's heres my biggest concern. I have copied from an old server data to Server A d:\backup. All OK, but now the first folder can't be opened and says "the file or directory is corrupted and unreadable" there is over 3GB of data in this folder and all other folder in d:\backup are still there and readable. Could I have caused this problem when I created a folder from server B in d:\??
I wish I knew what I was doing :(
Many thanks
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тАО07-10-2008 07:45 AM
тАО07-10-2008 07:45 AM
Re: 2012i Sharing data between servers
It is different if you copy files, shutdown the OS, then connect the drive to another server. It will have exclusive access to the drive and see files OK.
To share a drive among several servers you need a clustering filesystem, that all servers are ina cluster and the drive is marked as a cluster resource. Then the cluster service manages the access.
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тАО07-10-2008 07:54 AM
тАО07-10-2008 07:54 AM
Re: 2012i Sharing data between servers
Can you recomend a way that I can share the 14TB I have on the MSA2012 and the second MSA2000 between a number of servers. The way I can work it is for each server to use a volume each, so instead of having 2 x 7TB volumes, I can break this down so that each server can use 3.5TB each to store it's data. Is this possible and if so any pointers most welcome :)
Thank you all so far for your help!
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тАО07-10-2008 08:31 AM
тАО07-10-2008 08:31 AM
Re: 2012i Sharing data between servers
What I can suggest you in this case is setting up a cluster would be a good option. You can create the volumes on the MSA`s and present it to the SRVA, now you want them to be readable from SRVB to map it over from you network and access the data. Now for the failover Create SRV A as you primary cluster node and create all the resources on the SRVA and make the SRVB as a passive node, now when we have a failure of SRVA, all the volumes will be failed over to SRVB and you achieve redundancy.
I hope it helps.... :-)
Andy
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тАО07-10-2008 08:46 AM
тАО07-10-2008 08:46 AM
Re: 2012i Sharing data between servers
Is ther no way I can create 4 volumes, allow Srv1 rw access to V1 and deny all others, then Srv2 access to volume2 and deny all overs etc etc
Could this work and give each server 3.5TB of total storage to use?
Thanks again!