File Server Clustering

[silvestre]

Hi Guys i have a Powervault SAN mD 3240 connected to two hyper v hosts via 12GBS SAS HBA.

Im trying to create a file server cluster inside 2 VM's.

I am having trouble connecting the storage to the VM's I have setup the LUN on the powervault and it shows up on both hosts.

While trying to set this up on the VM i have uses passthrough, created a VHD on the host but it fails to bring the disk online on the cluster , it says " Clustered storage is not connected to the node".

 

is there any way round this?

 

or any way to directly connect the VM's to the LUN

 

Thanks

[PR-UK]

I gave up doing it this way as when the VMs (which were in a host cluster) were migrated they'd lose connection with the SAN and the file services would failover.

 

I setup a VHDX on the host and then used the Shared VHDX feature in 2012 R2 to map it to both VMs, this seems to have been much more reliable especially when migrating the VMs and it removed the complexity of exposing the SAN to the VMs

[silvestre]

Did you map the LUN on both hosts ? and then setup VHDX?

[PR-UK]

Previously they were iSCSI'd from the VM to the SAN, as long as the VMs Initiator names were listed in the SAN and mapped to the volume it worked fine.

[silvestre]

The SAS HBA's dont have initiators for VM's only the host.

 

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they use WWPN