Q:
Do I need 2 physical SCSI disks in the shared drive space? I only have one
and expected to be able to put both the Quorum and shared data drive on the
same Physical Drive as 2 Logical drives. Is this not possible? Do I need
to purchase a second drive? Would using 2 433 mhz servers with 128 mg of
ram each cause my cluster to fail?
A:
Yes, you do need two physical drives to separate the Quorum and Data drives. The only time you don't need this is where you have an external RAID subsystem which can emulate having two physical disks.
The Server config is fine. I have built clusters with Pentium 166's with no problem.
Leon
Followup:
OOPS, I guess I read the MS docs too well on this one. Thanks for following up, Bill, and letting me know that you, in fact, do not need 2 physical drives :) I have always built clusters using at least two drives and never tried to run with one.
Leon
Posted by Leon at August 06, 2002 11:16 AMBest site I've found so far on clustering!
Here's what I have:
2 - Adaptec 2940uw adapters (id6/id7)
1 - Seagate 4GB SCSI Baracuda (id5)
2 - Intel 100mbps Heartbeat adapters
2 - Compaq ML570's (Xeon700x2)
1 - External Sun SCSI drive case
All components (except the Sun case) are on the Microsoft HCL for Windows 2000!
I use the setup to failover my print service, and it has failed over in a production environment successfully. I'm only using one drive and it has the quorum info plus a spooler folder. I had to use this approach because we didn't have the $30K+ for the "approved" hardware and needed the failover capacity for print services. Naturally Microsoft won't test and approve cheap solutions like these. But it works! - Thanks.
Bill
Posted by: Bill on October 1, 2002 07:43 PMWhere can I find out when this was posted?
Posted by: popupblockers on July 16, 2004 11:41 AMThis is my first time here and was wondering how often posts are made?
Posted by: Shann on August 8, 2004 03:40 PMInteresting blog, does this site get lots of activity or is it usually slow around here?
Posted by: Raquel on August 12, 2004 01:57 AMNot really busy. I do answer questions though when they are e-mailed to me on general topics.
If your question is asking me to spec out a clustering system and you want step by step directions, that is more a consulting job and I charge for that.
I can even work with you to setup your cluster remotely using gotomypc. I manage many clients networks this way since it's very safe and secure and they pay less than paying for my travel time and time on-site.
Leon
Leon
Posted by: Leon on August 12, 2004 12:18 PM