Windows and openfiler NAS

[projectja]

Hi,

I have a little problem, maybe is basic, but I am not able to find the right way to do it.

I´m mixed up over the way to configure Windows 2008 to be able to access NFS datastore.

The the goal of this lab is to configure a Windows 2008 cluster usign NFS openfiler.

My simple lab:

Esxi host

- Windows 2008 r2

- Windows 2008 r2

Vmwaere Workstation:

- Openfiler with NFS services running.

Completed:

I have installed Openfiler,

I have configured a NFS volumen

On Esx host I've added t he new datastore.

Here is muy problem: My idea is to configure a windows 2008 cluster. I have de datastore in the Esxi. Sill here, I have not had any problem, however now I am confused.

How does both nodes can see / use the openfile NFS datastore?

I have added the datastore from storage managemen consolet in Windows 2008 and I have format with NTFS, but now the datastore appears in "type-drive" as "unknown"

I think what I have done is a bit silly, but I am not sure how to operate to provide the storage volumen to both W2k8 nodes.

Please, I will thank you any hint

[Virtualinfra]

virtual machine clustering with microsoft failover cluster is not supported on NFS. refer below kb

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1037959

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[weinstein5]

This should help with your configuration of an MSCS Cluster - http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-50-mscs-gu...