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It seems that CSVs still require a shared storage system. The biggest thing I miss on Windows is a DRBD equivalent. I want to take a couple servers, and have them sync up their disks over the network - no need for a single point of failure SAN.

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What's the scenario exactly? You can't make use of AD and DFS?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_File_System_(Micros...

DRBD gives me a block device that's mirrored on 2 or 3 machines. DFS is like a file-level replication system or something. For instance, I can use DRBD as an iSCSI target for instance and then failover SQL Server. Or I can use any other app that requires no possibility of conflicts or uses open files.

AFAIK, Microsoft still has no solution in this case but to introduce a single point of failure via a SAN or other shared storage. I'd love to be wrong.

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