Dell Powervault MD3000 - Not sharing Files between servers

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Published on 2010-05-26T15:31:50Z Indexed on 2010/05/26 15:41 UTC
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I'm a developer who has to set up a Dell Powervault MD3000 due to lack of resources.

I have connected the Powervault to 2 Dell 2950 servers via the SAS cables. I performed the setup using Dell's MD Storage Manager software (4 disks, RAID 5 with hot spare). Then I added the disks using Windows 2003 disk management (Basic, not dynamic disk and formatted with NTFS).

When I add files to the array from one server, they are not visible on the other server (and vice-versa).

Is the error in the windows disk management configuration?

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