sync iscsi between 2 5200pro

[uilli]

I've read a similar thread on this board but it's from 2008 so I wanted to see if there are any news on this matter.

I have a n5200pro with a iscsi target where vmware machines are stored. I wanted to sync another n5200pro with the first one, so in case the first nas fails, I can connect the second one and use it.

I thought nsync could do this to find out it doesn't support iscsi. I also tried using ms iscsi initiator but the disks show as unknown partitions so I don't think I can use them with any windows synchronization app.

Is there any way I can accomplish this?

[uilli]

I found this post on another thread

Apr 8, 2008 20:25:54 GMT 7 drewy said:

OK since they are both PRO models you have another option....

If you can use iSCSI volumes in place of smb shares, depends on how many clients you have and whether the nas volumes are shared to multiple systems or just one to one.

If they are one to one & you can use iSCSI then you could connect an iSCSI volume from each nas box to the server and then mirror the iSCSI volumes at OS level. So in effect you'd have RAID 1 stripping across the 2 5200's. You could then lose or dissconnect 1 of the 5200's and not lose access to the data.

is it possible to do tihs on w2k3 even if it doesn't recognize the partitions?
linux will work too, but I don't know it very much and since it's production machines I prefer to have everything under control

[drewy]

so your using esx and the iscsi volumes are using vmwares filesystem format (whatever it is) and windoze doesn't recognise this?