clustering Dell's Poweredge 1900 using D1000 array
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SCSI BIOS setup:
* "Reset SCSI Bus at IC Initialaization" changed from "Enabled" to "Disabled" on both the servers.
* on one server "SCSI controller ID" is set to 7 and on the second server it is set to 14.
On booting either one of the server(while the 2nd server is powered off), i could see all hard drives. Also created logical volumes.
But, when one server is up & running, and when i try to bring up the second server, the second server is not booting. It hangs during the SCSI scan process. Also, on the first server getting SCSI errors on /var/log/messages. attaching message at the end of this thread.
Would above mentioned hardware would work fine for clustering?
if that's a Sun D1000 array, the install guide shows it attached to a single server, or the array split and attached to two servers each accessing half the drives. they do not show an arrangement where two servers can access the same drives/logical array at the same time. (page 28 of the .pdf) http://www.sun.com/products-n-soluti...05-2624-12.pdf
I know when we setup a shared storage cluster in windows, both servers were directly attached to a single Dell disk array like you are talking about, but the Windows NT clustering software prevented both servers from trying to access the directly connected array at the same time. If one server failed, then the other server could take over the resources on the array.
If you were using a NAS or SAN that would be a different story..
When we did Sun E10K using D1000 and A1000 only the latter were used for the cluster configuration. The D1000 were used only for things local to the node. I'm not sure D1000 couldn't be used for the cluster but that it was NOT used so maybe that was because it couldn't be. Otherwise I can't see any reason why we would have used two different kind of arrays in the same systems.
Per SUN Corp, D1000 could be used for clustering. I came across couple of documents where they talk about clustering using D1000. Obviously, they all use SUN servers.
My concern is making it to work with this Dell server.
I am wondering, if i make the SCSI BIOS not to scan for SCSI devices, at the time of booting, might fix the problem. Because as they scan, they try to reset the scsi devices, which is causing other server to panic.
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