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July 15th, 2020 05:00
Can cloned and source volume be attached simultaneously to same Windows server?
If I have EQ "volume-1" and I clone it to "volume-1-clone", can I have both attached to the same Windows server (2012r2) without any kind of conflict? In Windows, they are GPT/NTFS. Being a clone, I wasn't sure if there would be any identifiers on the disk or NTFS volumes that would end up no longer being unique.
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dwilliam62
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July 15th, 2020 05:00
Hello,
Yes. You will need to change the drive letter or mount point. Windows will see them as two different drives.
You can do the same thing with a snapshot of a volume. Where it gets tricky is Cluster Volumes, and Hyper-V CSV volumes. Since there's additional OS side configuration requirements.
For standard NTFS/GPT volume it's fine.
What you can't do is mount the same volume on two or more servers without using Cluster Services or CSV LUNs.
Regards,
Don
jesseroscoe
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July 15th, 2020 06:00
Thanks. We had some strange issues with the server that we discovered immediately after I did this, but I wasn't convinced they were related. It's always been a problematic server, but I just wanted to confirm that I hadn't done something dumb
dwilliam62
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July 15th, 2020 07:00
Hello,
Doesn't sound like it. When you clone a volume you also get a new serial number so the host doesn't think it's an MPIO connection to an existing volume.
The only weird issues as I mentioned are around clustering.
Regards,
Don