We are
looking at doing iSCSI boot of Windows for a different purpose - higher
availability, maybe in place of clustering which is alot more expensive and
complex.
We have a production SQLServer which management does not feel is
necessary to go through the complexity and cost to do a cluster.
However, they are intersted in <30 min SLA. We currently have a spare
server sitting around just in case. If we setup iSCSI boot of Windows then we
can swap the spare server in place of the production server if the production
server ever has hardware problem, right?
Has anyone done this with one of the iSCSI accelerators? I've only setup
for iSCSI with MS SW initiator. But I would imagine the iSCSI id would be fully
contained on the iSCSI accelerator and if I remove it from one server and place
into another server with the same configuration then the new server will just
boot up as the original server?
Derek