Thanks to the following for a quick response to my
question: Alan Nabeth, Dr. Tom Blinn, Chris Ruhnke, Alan
Davis, and William J Bochnik.
I had asked if was possible to add a third node
(standalone) into a 2 node cluster running V5.0a in order
for all 3 nodes to utilize the shared storage...
The overwhelming response was that it was unwise,
unsupported, and really dangerous to add a non-cluster
member to share the "shared storage". The cluster
software keeps track of the drives and any attempt by a
non-clustered system to access these drives would result
in unreliable data being presented.
I should of stated in my original note that this was
being done on 3 test nodes and no customer data was at
risk. We were going to look into zoning of the FC
switches and selective presentation on the storage.
Tim
Received on Sat Dec 09 2000 - 23:14:34 NZDT