Re: Unable to create physical disk for MSDTC

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Yeah, 50MB is way too small. Our standard configuration for the quorum disk
is 640MB. By the way, Microsoft recommends a separate disk and resource
group for MSDTC with Window 2003.

Linchi

"Rodney R. Fournier [MVP]" <rod@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
message news:edWJKQA0FHA.560@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 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
> news:1129212114.150937.123740@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> 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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