Microsoft Cluster

[kirpi4]

Hello

Will Starwind free edition support csv and mpio for two nodes and one storage?? I want to use it for Hyper-V cluster. Thanks.

[anton (staff)]

Yes. That was a plan.

Hello

Will Starwind free edition support csv and mpio for two nodes and one storage?? I want to use it for Hyper-V cluster. Thanks.

[bogart]

I have been trying to get this to work since May, and have not been successful so far. I cannot get the drives to go online on the second node after adding them to the first node - when the first node is down. The last try - with 5.7.1721 this week - worked ok on the first node, but when I connected on the second node, the drives did not appear in Disk Management, and Computer Management became unresponsive. The node would not shutdown after this also.

If there is a trick or secret handshake to make this work, I would really like to know. It would be great to be able to use this with Hyper-V to test upgrading SQL Server clusters, service packs, etc. before doing it on Prod systems.

[anton (staff)]

There's no secret handshake or whatever. And there's little or no sense in trying to do something for 2 months, failing and not letting support know. Please find StarWind manual on how to setup Windows cluster for your OS (2003 or 2008 they are different just a bit) and follow it step-by-step. If you'd fail again just let us know where exactly. And make sure you do provide both Windows cluster validation and StarWind own logs for failed attempt sequence. Should help a bit to troubleshoot your issue and put a bit more light on why it happens this way.

I have been trying to get this to work since May, and have not been successful so far. I cannot get the drives to go online on the second node after adding them to the first node - when the first node is down. The last try - with 5.7.1721 this week - worked ok on the first node, but when I connected on the second node, the drives did not appear in Disk Management, and Computer Management became unresponsive. The node would not shutdown after this also.

If there is a trick or secret handshake to make this work, I would really like to know. It would be great to be able to use this with Hyper-V to test upgrading SQL Server clusters, service packs, etc. before doing it on Prod systems.

[hixont]

I had no problems getting the Hyper-V Cluster Shared Volumes to work with StarWind. I used StarWind's documentation (to setup the SAN components) and Windows Server 2008 R2 Unleashed (to setup Hyper-V and CSVs) as my reference materials during my initial install and planning.

[anton (staff)]

It's part of the Junior Engineer exam here @StarWind BTW.

I had no problems getting the Hyper-V Cluster Shared Volumes to work with StarWind. I used StarWind's documentation (to setup the SAN components) and Windows Server 2008 R2 Unleashed (to setup Hyper-V and CSVs) as my reference materials during my initial install and planning.