"EoinDubh" <> wrote in message
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>I am setting up a pair of HP DL380G5 servers to manage our blade
> systems. I have 64 bit Server 2008 Enterprise installed along with
> MSDTC and SQL Server 2008. I have 3 100GB SAN LUNS available. LUN 1is
> the quorum disk, LUN 2 has MSDTC and LUN 3 has SQL Server.
>
> Is there a requirement for only 1 clustered application per LUN? LUNS
> 2 and 3 are 99% free and I can install an application (in this case HP
> SIM) on either but I cannot cluster it as the cluster failover
> management tool sees no free space.
You are kind of stuck with the limitation of one LUN being available as a
Physical Disk resource for one Virtual Server (or Instance) in a cluster
until Windows Server 2008 R2 releases.
You should probably read up on CSVs in R2. This technology still might now
meet your needs, though.
http://blogs.msdn.com/clustering/arc...2/9453288.aspx
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