SQL 2008 -question on clustering...

[SurvivorGT]

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Have 2 SQL 2k8 servers in a cluster via Windows 2008 64 Ent MSCS.

I do not have any media attached storage, so when I look at the detailed of the quorum disk within Microsoft Clustering services it does not detect a disk available so hence no quorum disk.. this is not good.

The company I installed this for does not have a SAN or NAS.. and it won't allow me to just pick a drive letter from my primary server thats in the cluster to "point" to a configurable quorum disk.. is there any reason why this is so? I thought you could in fact use either C: drive or another logical drive letter -ex: I have a D: data volume set up with 100G space but its local server disk.. why is this not working?

Yet over all I have 2 nodes in this cluster, both nodes show as UP (green lights) but how can this be a valid cluster if quorum is not allowing me to set it up...

Thanks for any advice or tips on this..

Thanks

 

[mrdenny]

Microsoft Clustering requires shared storage (SAN) for use with SQL Server. Without having shared storage such as a SAN you can't install SQL Server in a cluster.

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