Building a Hyper-V Cluster @ home for testing purposes

Posted by DH on 4th December 2009

Physical overview of the hardware:

home_datacenter

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Starwind offers free ISCSI SAN

Posted by DH on 25th May 2009

StarWind Free

Great product to build your own ISCSI based SAN. It is compatible with Server 2003 Clustering and supports SCSI-3 Persistent reservation bit.

StarWind Free is an iSCSI Target that converts any Windows server into a SAN in less than 10 minutes.  This is a fully functional product at no cost. 

  • Large 2 TB storage capacity
  • Unlimited number of connections
  • Virtualization environment support for VMware, Hyper-V, XenServer, Virtual Iron
  • Enhances VMware environments by enabling VMotion, VMware HA, DRS and VCB
  • Supports Windows server clustering for any application including SQL Server, Exchange, SharePoint

More info @: http://www.starwindsoftware.com/free

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