On May 7, 7:41 am, "Ben Hanson" <transparency...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I would like to utilize our existing SAN to host IIS' web content. In other
> words, put inetpub on the SAN storage and hook the IIS box up to the SAN via
> Fibre Channel HBA. This is not an issue. The question is, eventually we will
> have more than one IIS server...this extra IIS server will host the exact
> same sites and content, it will be for the purposes of running NLB for
> load-balancing/redundancy. To save from having to sync separate inetpub
> folders via a sync tool likeDoubleTakeor the like for both IIS servers,
> I'd like to just point IIS on the two IIS boxes to the same back-end inetpub
> folder on the SAN. As far as I know IIS doesn't care about this and isn't
> technically a problem but I'm just wondering if anyone has done this and
> found that it does in fact work fine, or that it's better to keep the data
> directories separate and just sync the contents?
>
> -Ben
>
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"daveberm" <david.bermingham@steeleye.com> wrote in message
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> On May 7, 7:41 am, "Ben Hanson" <transparency...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> I would like to utilize our existing SAN to host IIS' web content. In
>> other
>> words, put inetpub on the SAN storage and hook the IIS box up to the SAN
>> via
>> Fibre Channel HBA. This is not an issue. The question is, eventually we
>> will
>> have more than one IIS server...this extra IIS server will host the exact
>> same sites and content, it will be for the purposes of running NLB for
>> load-balancing/redundancy. To save from having to sync separate inetpub
>> folders via a sync tool likeDoubleTakeor the like for both IIS servers,
>> I'd like to just point IIS on the two IIS boxes to the same back-end
>> inetpub
>> folder on the SAN. As far as I know IIS doesn't care about this and isn't
>> technically a problem but I'm just wondering if anyone has done this and
>> found that it does in fact work fine, or that it's better to keep the
>> data
>> directories separate and just sync the contents?
>>
>> -Ben
>>
>> --
>> Posted via a free Usenet account fromhttp://www.teranews.com
>
> You will need some type of clustered file system in order for both
> servers to have access to the same LUN at the same time. You could
> alternatively create a file share of the inetpub on your first IIS box
> and specify the file share as your home directory on the second IIS
> box. That will give you a single copy of the data. Otherwise you can
> look into something like robocopy to keep the data in sync.