Hi,
I am really struggling to get my head around how to actually build a SOFS using server 2012 R2 which is supposed to be able to use iSCSI disks. I am trying to provide high storage availability should a storage system fail in one of our buildings. this is what I have:
Building 1:
1 Server 2012 R2
1 NAS which supports the creation of iSCSI targets and LUNs
Building 2: - the same as above.
what I want to achieve is a storage system (probably using SMB) for hyper-v virtual machines reside on, whereby any server and/or storage system becomes unavailable and the storage stays up in an active-active node. I have created 3 iSCSI targets and LUNs on each NAS, on server 1 i attached to NAS1 iSCSI targets, on server 2 i attached to NAS2 iSCSI targets.
I am no unsure how to get these into one cluster shared pool/space. I have got as far as making a storage pool on each of my 2 nodes under "pools" in failover cluster manager I have cluster pool1 owned by node 1, and cluster pool2 owned by node2.
I created a virtual disk for cluster pool1. then created a volume on that. under disks in FCM it shows assigned to available storage, owner node1
I tried to create a virtual disk for cluster pool2 but it wont attach, in server manager i see an error and trying to attach it shows "Error attaching or detaching virtual disk. failed to attach virtual disk to node2. access denied"
i can see in FCM it has been added to the disks as available storage but is offline and owned by node1 - i cant move the ownership.
am I understanding SOFS wrong here or should my scenario be possible?
thanks
Steve