I have an old Ext SCSI tower with 5 bays. I would like to test some clustering environments with miminal costs to my employers. The problem I have is my towers cabling has no 'y' or teminator that I can see. It simply runs from one ext centronics inside to 5 50pin connectors and out to another centronics connector. Do you know if this would work, or do I need another ext scsi tower?

Thanks in adavnce for your help;

TM

Hi Troy,

That is exactly what you will need :)

Termination is set on both SCSI Cards and they (the SCSI Cards) have to have different ID's. That way both SCSI Cards can see all 5 drives. Don't forget that you will have to use them as individual drives and not try to RAID them.

Leon

I have two server . what else i need (software and hardware) to setup host standby system ?

Ada

Hi Ada,

You will need two SCSI Adapters and an external Drive cage (two SCSI ports) with one or two harddrives inside.

For details on how to set this up, I will refer you here - http://www.leonletto.com/clustering/test_cluster.php

Leon,

Is it possible to configure Windows 2000 Advanced Server Clustering to mirror the internal secondary SCSI drives of two servers as opposed to using external Storage?

Thanks for the site and the help!

Hi Jamie,

I am afraid not. You would need a third party, real time, replication tool to handle that like Octopus or Doubletake. You can also go to
http://www.sunbelt-software.com and they have two synchronization products that you can have run automatically but not in real time. They are cheaper.

You can also use Rsync for Windows which is getting pretty stable now. It's a bit harder to learn how to use but it's free.

Leon