OS and 'containers'

[gary_150]

we have an esa1200 with storage containers arranged in raid5 arrays. multiple partitions are arranged on these arrays. we do not use clustering. is any one aware if we can/cannot present mutiple OS to these partitions. IE one windows and one solaris partition on the same container.

[Uwe Zessin]

Is this a single or a dual-controller (multibus-failover) configuration? ACS will not prevent you from presenting different units (on partitions of the same storage-set) to different hosts.

Note, however, that all units that belong to the same (RAID-5) storage-set are maintained by one of the controllers. If one host requests a failover of one unit it will cause a failover of all other units that belong to the same storage-set, too.

I have never heard that it is supported with different operating systems.

[gary_150]

We do have dual controllers and in multibus failover mode.

[Uwe Zessin]

OK, I have checked the release notes for Solaris and Windows and both just state 'Disk partitioning is supported under all failover modes supported by your operating system'.