I have new equipment, 2 Dell rack servers running Windows Server 2012 Datacenter and a Dell storage array. The array has 14 disks. I've setup a RAID 10 volume using 12 of the disks with 2 for hotspares. The 2 servers are connected to the array by fibre and they each see the volume as a drive letter.
I've read through some very good articles at MSDN but I'm still left with some questions.
1. Can I create the cluster using the array as storage with it in its current configuration or will I have to delete the volume and create a storage pool using 12 of the 14 disks?
Creating the cluster itself seems straightforward but it's the storage part that I'm uncertain about.
2. I'm also wondering if the two servers need to have once NIC in each connected directly together or if their connection to the LAN is fine. I know that Windows 2003 clusters I've managed (but didn't set up) had one NIC in each connected directly together in a private network and I don't know if this should be done here or not.
Jonathan