Creating LUNs
This chapter describes how to create LUNs using SnapDrive.
- Rules for creating LUNs
To avoid problems creating LUNs when using SnapDrive, you must keep some rules in mind.
- About volume mount points
Volume mount points enable you to surpass the 26-drive-letter limitation.
- Creating a dedicated LUN
You can use SnapDrive to create dedicated FCP- or iSCSI-accessed LUNs.
- Creating a shared LUN
You can use SnapDrive to create FCP- or iSCSI-accessed LUNs that are shared between clustered Windows servers.
- Creating a LUN as a quorum on a Windows 2003 cluster
You can use SnapDrive to create and configure a LUN as a cluster quorum disk on a new Windows Server 2003 cluster.
- Windows Server 2008 failover cluster support
SnapDrive supports the use of shared LUNs in a Windows Server 2008 failover cluster for all cluster configuration models using up to eight nodes.
- Configuring a Windows Server 2008 failover cluster witness disk
SnapDrive 6.0 for Windows and Windows Server 2008 provides a simpler way of configuring a shared disk as a witness disk than in earlier versions of SnapDrive and Windows Server. While SnapDrive still supports the previous method of configuring a quorum, it is no longer necessary to create a shared disk before creating a cluster, nor is it necessary to connect that shared disk to the node before that node can be added to the cluster.
