Hi,
I would like to know what are best practices regarding centralised storage in an IIS load balanced environment.
We currently have 3 IIS8 (Windows 2012) webnodes behind a hardware load balancer.
We use 2 storage engines (Windows 2012) for synchronisation and failover.
Currently we use the File Server Role in the Failover Cluster feature on both of the storage servers to provide the webnodes with webcontent.
Our IIS homedirectory looks like this:
\\storagecluster\firstuser
This is where I would like some advise.
We run a webhosting company hosting 6000+ websites.
Some of these sites are Joomla, Wordpress or Magento sites.
Especialy Magento has troubles with the two backslashes in the path, but also some components in other open source websoftware has issues with it.
Can this be done differently?
I would like to have a path without the double backslash in front, so we don't have to modify each component we are trying to install in our environment, but I don't want to give up our centralised storage.
Is there someone who has dealt with the same issue?