Re: New Clustered Drives
- From: "John Toner [MVP]" <jtoner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:24:28 -0400
The offline state protects the disk. You can present the disk to more than
one node at a time while it's in the offline state...just don't bring it
online on more than one node at a time or you'll risk filesystem corruption.
So now in 2008, you can bring the disk online on one node, create a
partition, format and mount it. Then you can take it offline and bring it
online on the next node to verify that it sees the partition and assign a
mount point.
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John
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"Robert Hindla" <rhindla@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I wonder if my interpretation of the "offline" status given (in
diskmgmt.msc) to a drive just added to a W2K8-based SQL cluster is
correct.
Let's say I allocate a brand spankin' new drive on my SAN and present it
simultaneously to the nodes. I note right away that it's in 'offline'
status. Does that mean it's protected from both nodes until I can create
a
partition and format it? Or do I still need to follow the procedure
normal
for W2K3 of presenting the drive to only one node?
When I use FCM to add the drive to the node is it the same as using
Cluadmin.exe to create a physical disk resource?
.
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