HPE DL380 gen10/MSA 1060A

[BlackArrow]

Hi I have DL380GEN10(server_1) connected to MSA 1060A All disk use in 1 volume(volume_a) via FC cable and 1 slot are available, Can I connect Another DL380GEN10(server_2) and map to same volume/data(volume_a) (server_2 will be a replication of server_1 use for failover). all is running on windows server 2022

[venkat_y]

Hello@BlackArrow,

Yes, it is possible to connect another DL380 Gen10 server (server_2) to the MSA 1060A storage system and map it to the same volume (volume_a) that is already being accessed by server_1.

Hope this is helpful for you!

Regards,
Venkat

[BlackArrow]

Hello  @venkat_y 

same data will be shown on server_2?  without any issue? I will be using server_2 as replicator/failover

[venkat_y]

Hello@BlackArrow,

Yes, the same data will be shown on server_2 also. You have to configure the MSA 1060A to allow multiple hosts to access the same volume. To allow both server_1 and server_2 access to the volume, the MSA's zoning and masking settings need to be configured.

Hope this helps!

Regards,
Venkat

[Cali]

Hold on.

Technical on the MSA Side it is no problem.

But if you have a native Windows Server (as you wrote) without a Failover Cluster Role, then Server_2 will corrupt the Windows Filesystem of Server_1. This is because Windows is not able to access/handle simultaneous access from multiple servers to the same volume.

So be careful, this may destroy your Data.

Cali

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