Getting my head around SOFS

Hi,
I am really struggling to get my head around how to actually build a SOFS using server 2012 R2 which is supposed to be able to use iSCSI disks. I am trying to provide high storage availability should a storage system fail in one of our buildings. this is
what I have:
Building 1:
1 Server 2012 R2
1 NAS which supports the creation of iSCSI targets and LUNs
Building 2: - the same as above.
what I want to achieve is a storage system (probably using SMB) for hyper-v virtual machines reside on, whereby any server and/or storage system becomes unavailable and the storage stays up in an active-active node. I have created 3 iSCSI targets and LUNs
on each NAS, on server 1 i attached to NAS1 iSCSI targets, on server 2 i attached to NAS2 iSCSI targets.
I am no unsure how to get these into one cluster shared pool/space. I have got as far as making a storage pool on each of my 2 nodes under "pools" in failover cluster manager I have cluster pool1 owned by node 1, and cluster pool2 owned by node2.
I created a virtual disk for cluster pool1. then created a volume on that. under disks in FCM it shows assigned to available storage, owner node1
I tried to create a virtual disk for cluster pool2 but it wont attach, in server manager i see an error and trying to attach it shows "Error attaching or detaching virtual disk. failed to attach virtual disk to node2. access denied"
i can see in FCM it has been added to the disks as available storage but is offline and owned by node1 - i cant move the ownership.
am I understanding SOFS wrong here or should my scenario be possible?
thanks
Steve

Hi,
thanks for such a great detailed answer, you have given a lot there. just a couple of things though:
your point 3 states online VM's cannot be deduplicated - are you referring to Server 2012 or R2, as I believe in R2 they now can be Deduped. Does StarWind support Deduplication or is it best to use Microsofts version? can StarWind Dedupe be used in a HA
image?
in point 5 you have said about SQL and Exchange cant be used in Hyper-v replica. are you saying that if I had a SQL or Exchange virtual server I can't replicate it to a hyper-v replica server, why would this be? can StarWind be used to send a replica of
the VM's to another destination server and function similar to hyper-v replica? I like the idea of 30 seconds replications for servers which are close enough for us to do this, and the 15 minutes for servers in further locations.
thank you
Steve
1) With R2 MSFT had improved VDI scenarios. But still deduplication of a running VMs is not supported. See:
What's New in Data Deduplication in Windows Server 2012 R2
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn486808.aspx
Important
In Windows Server 2012 R2, the performance of VHDs optimized through Data Deduplication is fully tested and supported only on VDI workloads. The same performance gains are not guaranteed for non-VDI workloads running on Hyper-V virtual machines; nor does Microsoft
offer support for these scenarios in Windows Server 2012 R2.
Extending Data Deduplication to new workloads in Windows Server 2012 R2
http://blogs.technet.com/b/filecab/archive/2013/07/31/extending-data-deduplication-to-new-workloads-in-windows-server-2012-r2.aspx
Is Hyper-V in general supported with a Deduplicated volume?
We spent a lot of time to ensure that Data Deduplication performs correctly on general virtualization workloads. However, we focused our efforts to ensure that the performance of optimized files is adequate for VDI scenarios. For non-VDI scenarios (general
Hyper-V VMs), we cannot provide the same performance guarantees.
As a result, we do not support deduplication of arbitrary in use VHDs in Windows Server 2012 R2. However, since Data Deduplication is a core part of the storage stack, there is no explicit block in place that prevents it from being enabled on arbitrary workloads.
Sure we (StarWind) do support running VMs deduplication.
2) You can replicate running VMs with SQL Server and Exchange with Hyper-V Replica the problem is you're not going to have consistent content on the destination side. See:
Support policy for Microsoft SQL Server products that are running in a hardware virtualization environment
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956893/en-us
If multiple SQL VMs are tightly coupled with one another, individual VMs can failover to the disaster recovery (DR) site but SQL high
availability (HA) features inside the VM need to be removed and re-configured after VM failover. For this reason the following SQL Server features are not supported on Hyper-VM Replica:
Availability Groups
Database mirroring
Failover Cluster instances
Log shipping
Replication
Does Exchange Support Hyper-V Replica
http://blogs.technet.com/b/rmilne/archive/2013/07/29/exchange-and-hyper-v-replica-support.aspx
In short, Exchange does not support the Hyper-V Replica feature. Exchange has a long history of supporting virtualisation from Exchange
2003 onwards. It is fully supported to install Exchange 2007, 2010 or 2013 as
a virtual machine on Hyper-V, but using the Hyper-V replica feature is not supported.
The Exchange 2010 virtualization support requirements and Exchange
2013 virtualization requirements pages are rather detailed in what must and must not be done on an Exchange virtual machine or hypervisor. If what you want to do is not listed, then that should set an alarm bell off….
The Exchange virtualization support statement has never listed Hyper-V replica, though some of the Hyper-V content has alluded to running Exchange as a replicated VM.
You cannot use StarWind to replicate VMs (not any more at least) as we're working on a LU level so you replicate all "linked" VMs located on LU/CSV.
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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The context: I recently sent some files for printing to an online lab, and found the prints looking very dull and "muddy" compared with what I'd seen on the screen of my iMac 24".
Looking for what I'd done wrong, I experimented with "on-screen proofing", but I was surprised to find that using a big variety of proofing profiles, the "proof" display looked hardly any different from the "raw" display. I even checked that it was working at all by using a b&w profile!
Next I calibrated my monitor using a Spyder2Express. This isn't the most full-featured tool, and I calibrated the monitor to gamma-2.2, white point "native". Now the screen looks a lot duller.
Going into Aperture I again find the same thing with "soft proofing" - changing the colour profile makes hardly any difference. What also surprised me was that using my original screen profile "iMac", the display doesn't look like it did before I calibrated the monitor (if you see what I mean ..)
Obviously there are some tricks I'm missing here. If someone could set me straight, or mention some resources for this specific question, I'd be very grateful!

as a photographer I know the frustration you suffer from , very well.
Once upon a time photographers went to the "darkroom". there they cutted stripes out of photopaper, exposed them in diffrent lengh to the light under the filmp rojektor.Then developed them and compared to decide, how finaly to expose and develope the Image.
To get a good print out of your picture I have some sugestion.
A ) try until it fits :
if you want to go on with the onlinelab, take the picture you got and change the settings in Aperture according to what you think is not right.
f.exemp.: +10% contrast, -50 % Booster, +20% saturation. then "save as" and
name the file xxxxx_v1.jpg . Next version you increase all changes values for another 10 %. then send the pictures to the lab and see what comes close to your expectations.
B ) change the fotolab :
you will get a beter result if you decide your nice pictures are worth some more cent. You choose a recommendet digital fotolab. One benefit willl be, they´ll tell you how to set your color managment so it fits best to their printer.
next you bring one picture file to them to print. next you make the correction you want to come close to what you want. so here we are what Micheal suggestet.
C ) do it yourself :
get your own good printer like Epson 2400....
Please don belive that a cheap printer does the same like the one mentioned above.
here you will spend more money than on way A+B, but in the end you´ll have prints wich look like you want, on the fineart paper you want them and they will last very long time.
D) the professional way wich may include also B+C:
You want or need professional quality and have the money to spend on it.
Sorry, but no Apple Monitor comes close to a hardware calibratet Monitor. Maybe they are semi-professional. I dont say this to insult Apple, ore somebody else, but i say this to sway out the illusion, " if I just spend more money on the calibration tool and software, I´ll have better prints". It´s just not possible, because the monitor cant show what is there. A Apple CRT monitor is far better in this. I you want to have a flatscreen TFT monitor to bring good results you have to choose one that is able to be hardware calibratet and has a higher lookup table (EIZO, LaCie, QuatoGrafics......)
I use use one professional EIZO CG21" and one semi-prof. EIZO FlexScanL985EX(21") and the diffrence is importand betwee the two.
But i need only one to be Print Proof ready.
Before i was always afraid when i gave the picture file to my client, because of what my pictures look like once it is printet. Now the outcome is right or differs only very little from what I saw on the screen.
my calibratiob tool is EYE ONE.
I write in such lenght, because in the beginning I thought I could get arround to by prof. hard-and software. I lost a lot of time and money in that way. so now i know
Cameras I use: D200, D5
G5 dual 2.3/4,5 gigRam/ATI 9600 128MB-PB G4 12" Mac OS X (10.4.2) EIZO CG 21"+EIZO L985ex 21"
G5 dual 2.3/4,5 gigRam/ATI 9600 128MB-PB G4 12" Mac OS X (10.4.8) EIZO CG 21"+EIZO L985ex 21"

Trying to get my head around lists, sub-lists and DHTML Tree Template

I'm missing something..
1) I create a list using the DHTML tree template
2) I create the following list entries
A
...1
...2
...3
B
C
Lists entries 1,2 and 3 have the "Parent List Entry" set to "A"
List entries A,B and C have the "Parent List Entry" set to "No Parent..."
3) I create a list region and select the above list
How do I make A a label or heading and not a link? If I click on a heading I expect the list to expand.
How do you set up the lists as shown in Carls demos at
http://htmldb.oracle.com/pls/otn/f?p=11933:31
regards
Paul P

Hi Paul,
In the list definition, you can set the "Target Type" for the headers to " - No Target - ".
Regards
Andy

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I'm new to this Java programming lark but it has always interested me so i thought I would give it a go but I am stumped on a project I'm working on. Maybe there is a simple answer that I just can not see.
The problem I am having is linking elements in ArrayLists. I have two arraylists, accounts and groups. accounts is sorted using a compareTo method to be organised by their level (an integer). What I need to do though, is place the accounts into groups sequentially so that the groups are mixed with accounts of different levels. I wouldn't like the code but if someone could help me see what I need to do that would be great, it should work like this.
Daniel 5 ----> group 1
Graham 5 ---> group 2
Andy 5 ---> group 1
John 4 ----> group 2
Clark 4 ---> group 1
Kevin 3 ---> group 2
I'm guessing loops are involved but I can't see how it would work around. Any help would be greatly appreciated thanks a lot :)

wigglet wrote:
I'm new to this Java programming lark but it has always interested me so i thought I would give it a go but I am stumped on a project I'm working on.
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The problem I am having is linking elements in ArrayLists. I have two arraylists, accounts and groups. accounts is sorted using a compareTo method to be organised by their level (an integer). What I need to do though, is place the accounts into groups sequentially so that the groups are mixed with accounts of different levels. I wouldn't like the code but if someone could help me see what I need to do that would be great, it should work like this.
Daniel 5 ----> group 1
Graham 5 ---> group 2
Andy 5 ---> group 1
John 4 ----> group 2
Clark 4 ---> group 1
Kevin 3 ---> group 2
I'm guessing loops are involved but I can't see how it would work around. Any help would be greatly appreciated thanks a lot :)Quick answer : write comparators
Longer answer : I don't understand some parts of your question. Perhaps you want a two stage sort? Perhaps something else. I'm not sure how these people relate to the groups in your code, that appears to be a key question here for the data you want to display.
But in the end the answer will either to be make some else Comparable or write Comparators that produce the sort you want. The answer is not "loops".

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Can someone PLEASE HELP me?!!!
I got a new ipod which is GREAT for music, but im having some difficulty.
My podcasts wont appear in podcast catorgory on ipod & neither will my audiobooks. I've tried the help posted on disscusion pages but still cant do it!! I just feel i cant get the most out of my lovely new little white machine!!
Is it worth buying the Ultimate Ipod Guide I've seen advertised or is it just me being stupid dumb blonde!!
PLEASE HELP!!
Tina

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Are you getting the podcasts and audiobooks through the iTunes Music Store or from other sources?
I have no experience with using an iPod with Windows. I know for the Mac that at least for audiobooks from other sources, you can run a script that will allow the audiobooks to have a bookmark and will also make them be seen as audiobooks on an iPod.

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