Vm Workstation, is it possible to setup a SAN without actually having a SAN for Exchange Cluster?

[swisstonitechi]

Hi All,

I'm looking to setup a virtual lab Exchange 2003 cluster and I've been told it might be possible to setup a SAN type storage within VM Workstation without actually have a SAN (as my testing budget is, well, zero).

Anyone done this before? I've got a decent size usb storage device...

The disk quorum needs to be on a shared drive(s), would another VM server with shared drive be good enough for it to work?

[continuum · Accepted solution]

Hi

there are several ready to use VMs that can be downloaded that may help you

one example is a virtual SAN from Sun

http://www.sun.com/storage/disk_systems/unified_storage/resources.jsp

or you may look at Openfiler or FreeNAS.

A completely different approach would be to use iSCSI - you could install for example Starwind on your host and then use the USB-disk as a iSCSI-SAN

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[swisstonitechi]

Thanks for the response, very helpful.