I am new to supporting MSCS.
Our MSCS consists of 2 x Dell 6350 Servers each with Raid 1 mirrored internal drives plus two Dell PowerVault 201s cabinets each containing a Raid 5 set of disks.
While this works OK, it was deemed necessary to install an additional pair of disks for a particular resource we want to establish on the cluster. The two new drives were installed in one powervault cabinet and configured using Dell’s (HP?) array manager to a raid 1 mirrored set, formatted to NTFS and drive letter allocated. This process was repeated for each of the servers.
We have found that while the new disk resource was easily added to the cluster (in cluster administrator), the offline node still has access to it. The offline node would normally not be able to access the cluster disks. On the offline node, cluster disks would normally be reported as “remote disks” but the new resource we have added is classed as a “local disk”. This is quite frustrating as I am not entirely sure if something is wrong or not but my gut feeling suggests the new disk resource should be seen in the same way as the existing resources from the offline node. Confused? I am!
Look forward to your comments. Tks.
Our MSCS consists of 2 x Dell 6350 Servers each with Raid 1 mirrored internal drives plus two Dell PowerVault 201s cabinets each containing a Raid 5 set of disks.
While this works OK, it was deemed necessary to install an additional pair of disks for a particular resource we want to establish on the cluster. The two new drives were installed in one powervault cabinet and configured using Dell’s (HP?) array manager to a raid 1 mirrored set, formatted to NTFS and drive letter allocated. This process was repeated for each of the servers.
We have found that while the new disk resource was easily added to the cluster (in cluster administrator), the offline node still has access to it. The offline node would normally not be able to access the cluster disks. On the offline node, cluster disks would normally be reported as “remote disks” but the new resource we have added is classed as a “local disk”. This is quite frustrating as I am not entirely sure if something is wrong or not but my gut feeling suggests the new disk resource should be seen in the same way as the existing resources from the offline node. Confused? I am!
Look forward to your comments. Tks.