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iSCSI SAN for Windows Server 2008 Clustering


KernSafe iStorage Server is an advanced and powerful, full-featured software-only iSCSI Target that fully conforms to the latest iSCSI Standard 1.0 (former Draft 20). It is an IP SAN solution allowing you to quickly export existing storages such as disk images, VHD files, physical disks, partitions, CD/DVD-ROMs, tapes or any other type of SCSI based devices and even a variety of popular CD/DVD images to the client machines. The software thus delivers immediate benefits, as it allows storage to be consolidated, virtualized and centrally managed. iStorage Server also provides RAID-1 (mirror) feature enabling you to create two iSCSI devices for mirror backup. Furthermore, iStorage Server also supports a lot of features such as: VHD (Virtual Hard Disk) target, snapshots, STPI, RAID-1 and failover, these features are very important and poplar in storage industry world and make iStorage Server is suitable for any size of business.

High-availability clusters (also known as HA Clusters or Failover Clusters) are computer clusters that are implemented primarily for the purpose of providing high availability of services which the cluster provides. They operate by having redundant computers or nodes which are then used to provide service when system components fail. Normally, if a server with a particular application crashes, the application will be unavailable until someone fixes the crashed server. HA clustering remedies this situation by detecting hardware/software faults, and immediately restarting the application on another system without requiring administrative intervention, a process known as Failover. As part of this process, clustering software may configure the node before starting the application on it. For example, appropriate file systems may need to be imported and mounted, network hardware may have to be configured, and some supporting applications may need to be running as well.

After iStorage Server 2.0, it supports server side mirroring, synchronous replication and failover which allows user to create a high-availability iSCSI SAN for Windows Server 2008 clustering and Hyper-v.

This document gives you detailed step-by-step instructions on KernSafe iStorage Server configuring for Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2 failover clusters.

Click here to download the pdf version.

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