Forgive me if this is the wrong subforum.
My scenario is that I have a VM environment, and we're looking to make a couple of windows servers act as our backend. So what I'm ultimately trying to accomplish is to take the two servers and mirror their respective local storage to eachother and set up HA clustering. I have a feeling that what I'm asking is impossible to do natively on Windows server.
My servers are currently running Server 2008 R2 Standard edition, I would be willing to try a different OS if it's for a Microsoft supported configuration. So far I can't find any information that answers my questions and indicates the feasibility of this.
Here are my questions that I'd like to understand better:
- Is there a role/feature that I'm overlooking that would allow me to replicate storage from one server to the other?
- Is there a way to provide HA clustering to the degree that if one box went down, any open NFS streams from the ESXi boxes would seamlessly be migrated to the working box?
- If 1 & 2 are both feasible, is NIC teaming supported? I ask this because I noticed NIC teaming was not supported with NLB configurations and don't entirely understand the limitations of NIC teaming on windows.
Thanks in advance!