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sharing HDD's in Win2003server by HBA (FC) to another computer WinNT
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| booggie@wp.pl 2006-03-09, 5:48 pm |
| Hello!
I'm newbee in SAN topic...
I want to connect 2 computers by Fibre Channel connection using HBA
cards like this:
[Win2003serwer] <=> [WinNT_4.0]
2xHBA_Lsi 2xHBA_Lsi
I want to share hard drives installed on computer with Win2003server by
Fibre Channel to another computer with WinNT_4.0
This will be point-to-point connection.
Should I install some extra application on Win2003server to share this
drivers?
What can I do to see in WinNT_4.0 HDD's (volumens) from second
computer using HBA and Fibre Channel connection?
Thank You,
Bogumil Kosiorek, Warsaw - POLAND
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| Brian Henderson 2006-03-10, 7:48 am |
| I wouldn't use NT4 to get this done, and I wouldn't use Fibre Channel
if you are looking to get this done for less than the cost of a fancy
car. Consider iSCSI for this.
Connecting two computers can be done through network protocol i.e. file
sharing via CIFS in the Windows world, or through sharing of
block-level disk. iSCSI uses the same plumbing/physical wires as file
sharing, but you are sharing blocks instead of files.
Each computer in the scenario above would need an initiator (below)...
NT 4
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td...mwnt4/index.htm
Windows 2003
http://www.microsoft.com/WindowsSer...si/default.mspx
and a Target !
WinTarget was recently bought by Microsoft... other choices include
Wasabi Systems.
not sure about NT4 support with these guys.
Here's how to do it
http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials...erver-2003.html
iSCSI is being used for low end applications like the one you mention,
as well as critical applications and databases at major companies.
B
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| David A.Lethe 2006-03-10, 5:48 pm |
| On 9 Mar 2006 07:29:26 -0800, "booggie@wp.pl" <booggie@wp.pl> wrote:
>Hello!
>I'm newbee in SAN topic...
>I want to connect 2 computers by Fibre Channel connection using HBA
>cards like this:
>
>[Win2003serwer] <=> [WinNT_4.0]
> 2xHBA_Lsi 2xHBA_Lsi
>
>I want to share hard drives installed on computer with Win2003server by
>Fibre Channel to another computer with WinNT_4.0
>This will be point-to-point connection.
>
>Should I install some extra application on Win2003server to share this
>drivers?
>
>What can I do to see in WinNT_4.0 HDD's (volumens) from second
>computer using HBA and Fibre Channel connection?
>
>Thank You,
>
>Bogumil Kosiorek, Warsaw - POLAND
I assume you want to have data integrity so if computer "A" writes to
the disk, you want computer "B" to see the new data, and vise-versa.
If that is the case then you need to purchase some rather expensive
software like Tivoli's SANergy.
If you really need to do this w/o spending a lot of money, then I'd
just add some dedicated 1Gbit networking cards that support binding
between the two PCs, and have the NT box mount the disk as a share on
the W2k3
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| booggie@wp.pl 2006-03-13, 7:46 am |
| Than You for Your advice but do You know any other software similary to
SANergy?
The connection witch I wroted above is only "laboratory" connection.
I don't have storage controlller but I want to check how works
multipathing. I have connected 2 computers with 2 HBAs each one. One
computer (with Win 2k3) will be simulate storage server.
I need a software which let me share HDDs from computer A (Win2k3) to
computer B (winNT_4.0). I don't know how to get this done in Win2k3
without extra software and ... I don't know any software matching to
this problem :-)
This is the point-to-point connection. I used 4 LSIlogic HBA adapters:
7102XP-LC (2 adapters in each computer)
Bogumil Kosiorek
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