SCSI Shared Storage?

[laurieballard]

Hello

Probably a silly question but im very new to Vmware

I have a HP proliant server which im going to install esx 3.5i on

I want two virtual machines each running server 2008 in a failover cluster setup

I have 6 scsi disks in the server in a raid 5 array, would i be able to present them to the cluster as shared storage?

Cheers

[AWo]

Without any tools (if there are some available) and if these are local disks, no. You need shared storage like FC SAN, or NAS (NFS, iSCSI).

I would prefer a FC SAN.

AWo

VCP 3 & 4

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[FranckRookie]

Hi,

As you have your two nodes on a single ESX, I assume you are building a lab cluster (otherwise, your ESX is a dangerous Single Point Of Failure). If it is not for production, you can create an additional VM which will play the role of shared storage. For that, you can use any software solution to build an iSCSI target. Then connect your two nodes to that shared storage and setup a cluster.

You will find on the Net several demos on how to install FreeNAS or Openfiler, maybe others, in such a configuration.

Good luck

Franck

[AndreTheGiant]

For a lab you can use a cluster in a box configuation and have the two VMs on the same host:

Andre