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File Cluster - traditional style or virtual machine
File Cluster - traditional style or virtual machine
- (sorry also asked in HyperV thread)
Greetings
we are running W2008-R2 Hyper-V on a HP C3000 on four blades setup as two separate clusters (HP2012I and MSA2000 over ISCSI)
we have several virtual machines in HA mode running fine (member servers, specialized roles) (can live migrate fine etc)
we now want to setup our main File - Print server within the cluster
Does everyone recommend setting in up as a plain file cluster (application) - or to do it as a VM?
(we could only add data to a test File VM by creating additional virual harddisk / vhd file bought would rather address the file data outside this)
(we dont need clustered shared volume storage for this new file cluster as we can dedicate this lun to this one task)
(we would rather not have our 300+ GB of file data sitting in a large vhd file)
thanks - any advice welcome
Risposte
- I recommend setting it up in a VM..
It will give you move freedom as you move ahead .. get new hardware and so on...
I dont see that problem with all you data in a vhd file, in windows 2008 R2 you are able to go and mount the vhd file in Storage Manager if say you need to disaster recover any data. We have used this feature alot after upgrading our datacenter to R2
\Thomas- Contrassegnato come rispostaJM Networking venerdì 27 novembre 2009 20.51
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- I recommend setting it up in a VM..
It will give you move freedom as you move ahead .. get new hardware and so on...
I dont see that problem with all you data in a vhd file, in windows 2008 R2 you are able to go and mount the vhd file in Storage Manager if say you need to disaster recover any data. We have used this feature alot after upgrading our datacenter to R2
\Thomas- Contrassegnato come rispostaJM Networking venerdì 27 novembre 2009 20.51
thanks - its been hard to find an answer to this - from someone with experience (good to know about Storage Mgr mounting VHDs)
Julian
