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Marc_Holbe
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HA and DRS Cluster with Two Dell Poweredge 1850 and a shared Powervault 220

Hi,

does anyone have any experience with the following config:

2x Dell Poweredge 1850 Servers

1 Dell Powervault 220S with shared Backplane connected to both servers

Does that work as shared storage between the two servers? I know that Microsft Cluster Service supports that config, so I would not see any reason why ESX should not support it, but maybe someone already tested it.

Marc

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Texiwill
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Hello,

I am not sure this will work. It works with MSCS but most likely NOT with VI3. If you are going the SHared SCSI route, the SCSI device must have independent controllers. I believe you will be looking at the MD3000 or MSA500 from HP. Standard disk trays will not work.


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Edward L. Haletky

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ascari
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i'm agree with Texiwill.

Power Vault 220S is a shared SCSI bus with Y cable. MSCS use this SCSI bus such a unique bus. If i good remember, you need to use an scsi id (7) for one adapter and another id (6) for other adapter.

You can use your storage space for NAS/NFS use, if you install an operating system in one of your 1850 system

Bye Alberto

Texiwill
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Hello,

Shared scsi bus that use Y cables will not work with ESX. They just lack the capability to make it work. Yes you can split it up but they are two distinct LUNs, one for server 1 and one for server 2. There is no shared lun capability. Thank you ascari, I have not used that device but it looked like an MSA50 type device. I am more familiar with HP hardware but learning Dell now as well. Smiley Happy So no, it will not work. You need the MD3000 model.


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Edward L. Haletky

VMware Communities User Moderator

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Author of the book 'VMWare ESX Server in the Enterprise: Planning and Securing Virtualization Servers', Copyright 2008 Pearson Education. As well as the Virtualization Wiki at http://www.astroarch.com/wiki/index.php/Virtualization

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Edward L. Haletky
vExpert XIV: 2009-2023,
VMTN Community Moderator
vSphere Upgrade Saga: https://www.astroarch.com/blogs
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canadait
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Why don't you take another server and install ISCSI software on the server be it OpenFiler, DataCore etc and then present that server the 220. Share out the 220 space via ISCSI.

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