2008 R2 Multi-Site Cluster Possible without Third Party Software?

2008 R2 Multi-Site Cluster Possible without Third Party Software?  I know it has been asked, but I haven't seen a specific answer.  We are using Dell Compellent Storage and I created several read only replicated volumes at our DR site.  I
am having issues failing over to the volumes after I use cluster cli to mount the read only volumes.
Any help would be appreciated greatly!
 

2008 R2 Multi-Site Cluster Possible without Third Party Software?  I know it has been asked, but I haven't seen a specific answer.  We are using Dell Compellent Storage and I created several read only replicated volumes at our DR site.  I
am having issues failing over to the volumes after I use cluster cli to mount the read only volumes.
Any help would be appreciated greatly!
To have this working reliably you need to have 1) redundant and pretty fatty pipes between your sites (Primary and Disaster Recovery) and 2) your storage (Compellent in your case) being placed in third location. If you'll have both conditions met you'll
have decent performance and would avoid brain split issue when both sites would be up and uplink between sites is down. Good links on geo clustering:
Geo Cluster for Windows
http://clusteringformeremortals.com/2009/09/15/step-by-step-configuring-a-2-node-multi-site-cluster-on-windows-server-2008-r2-%E2%80%93-part-1/
Geo
Cluster for Windows 2008
http://blogs.technet.com/b/johnbaker/archive/2008/03/28/windows-server-2008-geo-clustering-multi-site-clustering.aspx
Geographically Dispersed Clustering
http://msmvps.com/blogs/jtoner/
Hope this helped :)
StarWind VSAN [Virtual SAN] clusters Hyper-V without SAS, Fibre Channel, SMB 3.0 or iSCSI, uses Ethernet to mirror internally mounted SATA disks between hosts.

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