Questions tagged [shared-storage]

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iscsi concurrent access / iscsi volume shared access on NAS

I having a 7-bay NAS box with Raid-5 (5.3TB usable) with netgear gigabit Ethernet switch to connect the hosts (3 windows7 machine Specs: i7 / 16GB RAM / 1TB HDD / gigabit Ethernet NIC). (All of the endpoints are configured with jumbo frame support…
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Can reaching shared storage capacity prevent a VM from starting up in XenServer?

I have a VM installed on XenServer; it's drive is on an NFS share, which has just reached capacity--could this prevent the VM from starting up?
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Is a cluster the most cost effective redundancy method for windows server 2003?

We had a server with bad ram which caused a long outage while they figured it out and our client facing apps had to go down for a while. We are coming up with a solution for instant fail-over but are not sure what the most cost effective method…
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How to extend Active-Active cluster with FreeNAS as shared storage?

I have two physical nodes powered by Ubuntu and connected to each other with Corosync. And I have the FreeNAS server as NAS. This NAS server mounted on every node - basic scenario. Now I'm not able to add more HDD/SDD to my NAS. I can't add more…
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Sync Windows Server shares with OneDrive

Recently one of my costumers bought office 365 and now we have a slew of space online we would like to fill, so we would like to sync some main folders from WS2012 to it so it's always accessible and up to day. What's the best way? I've tried…
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Is it possible to have a read-only MongoDB-instance on a database folder that already is used on another server?

I have the following setup: — Many servers — One shared network mounted data storage folder On one of the servers, I need to run MongoDB to write data to it. I want to be able to access those written data from other servers while the one instance is…
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Oracle RAC installation failure: disk share issue

Oracle RAC installation is failing because of shared disk issue. While running "runcluvfy.sh" to verify the disk share between nodes. it is failing on node2. I have collected trace logs of following commands for analysis. ./runcluvfy.sh comp ssa -n…
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GFS2 single writer multiple readers setup

I'd like your advice on a setup I'm implementing in order to allow multiple hosts to share occasionally varying data on shared iSCSI storage. I'm using GFS2 to share access to an LVM2 logical volume on the iSCSI, and I'd rather avoid the complexity…
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Is it possible to have a directly attached SHARED Storage (accessed at block level) other than SAN or NAS?

We need storage specifically for HPC Lustre failover setup, where it is must that two servers should share same block level storage to have failover configuration. With very limited knowledge on hardware, I have the below understanding: NAS can be…
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Shared storage for Xen based cluster that allows I/O control

I am looking for a solution that will allow me to control I/O usage for my home Xen based cluster. Basically what I need is a way to limit or scale domUs (VMs) disk throughput. E.g. setup: - VM1 volume1 250MBps volume2 50MBps - VM2 …
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Windows Server 2012 R2 shared folder

On Windows Server 2012 R2 I have a shared folder that I can map on 30 other computers only. Is that a license issue or just missed settings? Thanks, Greg
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Shared filesystem between KVMs

If I want to have shared fs between multiple kvm machines what is the best way to go when I'm already using ceph. I accessing my kvm disks directly through rbd devices but with ext4 on top of this even if I would add "shared" disks which are…
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Member of a group cannot access a WS2008 network share

A Windows 8.1 user cannot access one specfic network share on a windows 2008 R2 server. Windows cannot access \\COMPUTERNAME\Users You do not have permission to access \\COMPUTERNAME\Users. Contact your network administrator to request…
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Shared storage between Ubuntu VM servers

I am setting up worker servers on Digital Ocean. These Ubuntu servers need to access files in a common storage area. What process or program do you recommend for storing files on a shared folder between multiple servers? Copying items to Amazon S3…
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Open File Manager shows locks that should have been released

I have been doing some tests and I found an issue that my users experienced. My Aplliaction reads a xml file from a local network server through a DFS Path where they are granted access to. After viewing they "approve" the file a process that is…
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