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rcunha
Level 4
6 years ago

Share a ISCSI Disk With 2 BackupExec Servers

Hi Guys, I have this scenario, a BE2014 that is have an ISCSI Disk A with some .BKF files. Now I have a BE2016 with no disks. I Want to use this ISCSI DISk A with the two Servers, Both of them wil...
2014
Windows Server 2012 R2
  • Colin_Weaver's avatar
    Colin_Weaver
    6 years ago

    You cannot use 2 BE servers of different versions with the same iSCSI disk -

    If they were the same version of BE and OS then you could implement Microsoft Clustering and then configure BE for a 2 node cluster. (although then only one server at a time would be using the disk)

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Colin_Weaver
Moderator
6 years ago

You cannot use 2 BE servers of different versions with the same iSCSI disk -

If they were the same version of BE and OS then you could implement Microsoft Clustering and then configure BE for a 2 node cluster. (although then only one server at a time would be using the disk)

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    rcunha
    Level 4
    6 years ago

    Ok Thanks for your Help.

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      Colin_Weaver
      Moderator
      6 years ago

      There is one other possible option (although I have not seen this attempted for a long time so it may no longer be possible.)

      As long as BE is the same version on both servers you could do a CASO setup (with the correct licenses) and have iSCSI disk connected to one server and shared within Backup Exec to the other one.