Doubt in VDS ?

NTDEV
1

I am working on dynamic disk, system have default, one primary disk group, all the dynamic disk are part of this group. If I create new volume or delete volume and then do re-scan disks, the other dynamic disk also affecting, they goes to missing state or offline state. it is a dynamic share disk between two nodes.

I want to create the different disk group through vds and if I do some operation like create/delete volume, it should not affect to other disk group.

os is Win2k3, x86.

we are using CreatePack from vds but API fails and say " the another disk group is online", The primary disk group is online so it is not allowing to create new pack.
if any one worked on disk group, please help me.

any help is appreciated.

regards
Sharan

2

IIRC regarding Disk Groups. The default implementation of dynamic
disks that ships in Windows is restricted to only allowing one active
disk group at a time.

If you want support for multiple disk groups then you must upgrade to
the Veritas/Symantec full product.

Mark

At 11:16 22/05/2009, xxxxx@gmail.com wrote:

I am working on dynamic disk, system have default, one primary disk
group, all the dynamic disk are part of this group. If I create new
volume or delete volume and then do re-scan disks, the other dynamic
disk also affecting, they goes to missing state or offline state. it
is a dynamic share disk between two nodes.

I want to create the different disk group through vds and if I do
some operation like create/delete volume, it should not affect to
other disk group.

os is Win2k3, x86.

we are using CreatePack from vds but API fails and say " the another
disk group is online", The primary disk group is online so it is not
allowing to create new pack.
if any one worked on disk group, please help me.

any help is appreciated.

regards
Sharan

3

I can not use the Veritas/Symantec full product, For our product we have to depend on microsoft. I have to create multiple disk group, is there any way to create multiple disk group ?

4

Veritas volume manager is able to create multiple disk group on win2k3 , I guess, Veritas also uses VDS.
Is there any other way to support multiple disk group ?

thanks in advance.

regards
Sharan

5

Microsoft licensed the technology from Veritas. The disk group
limitation is one of the license restrictions. As far as I know
there way around this without upgrading to the Veritas product.

To clarify - VDS is just a management API, the functionality it
manages is implemented in DMIO.SYS for the Microsoft
implementation. It is in DMIO.SYS that the limitation is exercised, not VDS.

Mark

At 08:14 25/05/2009, xxxxx@gmail.com wrote:

Veritas volume manager is able to create multiple disk group on
win2k3 , I guess, Veritas also uses VDS.
Is there any other way to support multiple disk group ?

thanks in advance.

regards
Sharan