Re: Unable to create physical disk for MSDTC

Did you really mean 50MB for the Quorum? That is really small, way under the
Microsoft best practice of at least 500MB. You can put the MSDTC resource on
the Quorum disk. Will you SQL instance(s) require MSDTC?

Cheers,

Rod

MVP - Windows Server - Clustering
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"BlueDevil" <BlueDevil17@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> When trying to configure MSDTC per all KBs I've seen, several resources
>
> are required for this configuration. When I get to the point of
> creating the physical disk for MSDTC, I have no disk to select in the
> pull down. At that point, it's a stand-still.
>
>
> My partitioning on my array is as follows:
>
>
> H: Database (300GB)
> L: Logs (150GB)
> Q: Quorum (50MB)
>
>
> What am I missing? Has anyone run into this problem?
>


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