I installed Storage Server basic last week and didn’t get very far with it, I then noticed that there was a 64 bit version available to download from TechNet so I kick that off and installed Windows Storage Server 2008 Standard on my test machine.
I then installed the tools that came with the download and I could then start providing virtual disks to my other test servers over my GB network.
All my test machines only have single NIC’s so I found a couple of spare NIC’s kicking around and installed them in the Storage server, and the two servers that are to be clustered, however these cards were not x64 compatible so I cannot install the device drivers for them :( as I was hoping to have its own private network to serve as the iSCSI infrastructure.
I have now got two x64 Server 2008 Ent test servers connected to the Storage Server so I can test clustering again.
The Windows failover cluster has now been setup, once Windows Update has been run I will then install SQL on this server and see how the goes.