Using Shared disks in Windows 10

Question

Hi there, I'm wondering if someone may be able to offer some guidance here.

I'm looking to used a shared premium disk between two Windows 10 VMs.

I and see and mount the disks on both VMs, but changes are not replicated between them. I'm seeing similar issues described here:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/68854220/azure-virtual-machines-with-shared-premium-disk-cannot-see-data

The above link offers solutions, but from what I can see failover clusers are not available to Windows 10 systems, only Windows Server. Is this the case, or am I misreading the documentation? Are there any other/better ways of implementing this?

Thanks for your guidance.

Phil.

Answer 1

Have a look at this: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/disks-shared

You will need to use a cluster manager (usually a Windows Server VM) to create the clustered shared volume which would be stored on the shared disk.

You might be better off creating a file share using Azure files (Premium tier) here as this can be accessed by both of your Windows 10 VMs.