CCMS on Windows cluster - monitor database disks

Hi all,
We have BI7.0 system on windows cluster and ORACLE database. In default ccms doesn't monitor the storage disks (not local disks). SoI've followed the instructions of note 536954 and installed SAPCCMSR in cluster database group to be able to monitor this disks.
However in RZ20->filesystem I see the new instance (virtual name of the database) but still see only local disks. Any idea ?
Please advice,
Dimitry Haritonov

anyone ?
it´s weekend
sapccms makes the data available, the filesystem data itself is collected by saposcol. Do you use the newest version?
Markus

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The clustered storage pool MUST be comprised
of Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) connected physical disks. Layering any form of storage subsystem, whether an internal RAID card or an external RAID box, regardless of being directly connected or connected via a storage fabric, is not supported.
Windows Server 2012 R2 had flexed out some limitations so now ReFS is supported (but useless as VMs cannot be integrity checked and protected) and now you can use parirty spaces (also useless as they are DOG slow with a typical VM workload dominated by small
writes, say 4KB write initiates 256KB+ parity stripe read-modify-write update). Core requirements "SAS everywhere" is still there.
So if you don't want to mess with SAS JBODs you may give a try to a virtual SAN solutions available on the market. They can cluster a pair of hosts (even with a single port SATA drives) w/o any external hardware, only Ethernet required. There are even free
options available. See:
Free Virtual SAN
http://www.starwindsoftware.com/native-san-for-hyper-v-free-edition
Also Google (or Bing?) for DataCore and SteelEye as they have very similar native (Windows-based) offerings. + there's bunch of a VM-running storage doing more or less the same.
Hope this helped a bit :)
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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