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Storage Foundation Cluster File System HA on VMware VMDK Deployment Guide

Storage Foundation Cluster File System (CFS) provides several advantages over a traditional file system  when running in a VMware guest OS.  The primary benefit is that multiple virtual servers (up t...
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Denis_Kattith2
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12 years ago

Thanks for the article Carlos. This is quite informative. 

 

We have a customer who wants to Implement a Windows SFHA Cluster with a shared vmdk disk. The Cluster nodes/VM's will be hosted on seperate ESX hosts. Few questions:

a) Is this configuration supported in Windows?

b) What happens in case one VMware ESX host fails? Will the VM in the second host continue having access to the shared vmdk?

c) This question is not related to Symantec but more specific to VMware ESX. How should the datastore in VmWare be configured. My understanding is that a SAN LUN datastore can only be seen by one VMware host at a time?