I am trying to setup a simple environment (virtual) to prove that when a Node in a cluster goes down, the other picks up.
After much pain I think I may have this however I would love for people here to see if I have setup the system correctly?
I want to make sure that for example, the disks are correctly configured. It's a simple 2 Node cluster on WS2008 R2.
Configuration
DC
1 Private NIC
IP: 192.168.1.2 Sub: 255.255.255.0 DNS Server: 127.0.0.1
Node 1
2 NICs. 1 NIC is a public nic.
Private Nic 1: IP: 192.168.1.3 Sub: 255.255.255.0 Gateway: 192.168.106.1 <-- this is a VMWare thing I believe DNS: 192.168.1.2
Node2
2 NICs. 1 NIC is a public nic.
Private Nic 1: IP: 192.168.1.4 Sub: 255.255.255.0 Gateway: 192.168.106.1 <-- this is a VMWare thing I believe DNS: 192.168.1.2
VSAN
So I am using Starwind to create iSCSI storage/targets on this virtual machine. Oh - I dont have much clue about iSCSI!
VSAN IP: 192.168.1.5 Sub: 255.255.255.0 Gateway: 192.168.106.1 DNS: 192.168.1.2
I have 4 targets here.
Clustering Info
There are 2 nodes in this cluster, as you gathered from above. ClusterIP: 192.168.1.16 ClusterName: w2k8r2-clstr
Now, in regards to the disks, I see them as different volumes.
Cluster Disk 1 is a Witness in Quorum Available Storage: Cluster Disk 2, 3, 4
I see that if I reboot Node 1, the disks appear in my computer on Node 2 If Node 2 is rebooted, I see the disks appear in my computer on Node 1
is this the correct behavior? Have I missed something? wrong configuration?
Thats all for now. I REALLY hope someone can help, I would appreciate it :)