Clustering across 2 ESX hosts

[tkutil]

I have remote sites that have 2 esx boxes each. Is it possible to cluster W2K3 servers without having a SAN?

I came across an article from VMware about needing a VMFS partition for the servers and another VMFS partition for the shared disk, plus a second nic on a private VLAN . Is there an easier way?

TIA

[MauroBonder]

How you go mapping a disk of quorum without SAN ?

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[MauroBonder]

check this guide of microsoft cluster ESX3.X

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[AndreTheGiant]

With MCSC you need a shared disk for quorum (and other disk for other data).

Andre

[tkutil]

Define "shared disk". I know I could use an RDM with the SAN, but in these environments I would have to have something local. Could I use a network disk that has built in sharing like a buffalo or some other low end NAS.

[MauroBonder]

"iSCSI clustering is not supported on iSCSI or NFS disks."

vi3_301_201_mscs.pdf

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