Re: Cluster services & Dynamic Disks

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From: Shon Shah [MSFT] (shonsh_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 07/07/04

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    Shared disks must be configured as basic disks before you can use them with
    server clusters. Please check out the following KB.
    237853 Dynamic Disk Configuration Unavailable for Server Cluster Disk
    Resources

    Hope this helps. 

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<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:28f7a01c4643d$309f37a0$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> I am in the process of migrating from a single server
> Win2K server which is connected by fibre to a remote
> storage system to 2 WK3 servers configured in clustered
> mode. The disks that are configured on the existing Win2K
> server are Dynamic disks and from what I understand
> Dynamic disks will not work in W2K3 - is there anything I
> can do to work around this or to revert these disks to
> basic disks before migration or will they work in W2K3
> cluster services ?
>
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