Re: clustering

From: Kenneth Plettner (kenneth@plettner.dk)
Date: 03/31/02


From: "Kenneth Plettner" <kenneth@plettner.dk>
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 12:50:19 +0200

Hi Someone.

To create a cluster you must have at lease two servers (which you have),
each connected to a common storage system eg. SCSI extension cabinet, SAN,
NAS ... It will not be enough to have internal disks in your servers, you
have to purchase external storage too.

Depending on the box type you have, each vendor provides each own "low cost"
version of disk extensions - IBM provides the EXP300, Compaq the "Smart
Cluster Storage" (MA1000) and so on.

"someone" <ss@ss.com> wrote in message news:a85gv1$c7j$1@usenet.otenet.gr...
> Hello people, i got 2 servers running windows nt 4 server enterprise
> edition.
>
> Iam new in clustering and i dont know yet how it works, when i try to set
up
> the cluster it asks me to add SHARED disks and i didnt quite understand
what
> it means by that, are these "shared" disks the 2 server's hard drives or
> they are external SCSI hard drive boxes ONLY ?
>
> One of my servers has 3 scsi hard drives cant i create a cluster by
sharing
> these drives or do i have to buy external drive units to create a cluster
?
>
>
> Cheers
>
>
>
>
>



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