RE: Move quorum to new disk
From: Jeff Qiu [MSFT] (jefffqiu_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/12/04
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Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 09:06:33 GMT
Hi David,
I suggest you read the following topic in the clusterrecovery.chm:
Recovering the quorum disk
The procedure for actually replacing the quorum disk is identical to
replacing a data disk on the shared bus, however, since the cluster is not
ordinarily available if the quorum disk is offline, a special procedure is
required to startup the cluster in the event of a quorum disk failure.
If the quorum disk fails, the cluster service on ALL nodes in the cluster
will stop since none of the nodes will be able to successfully arbitrate
for the quorum resource. If this situation occurs, you should use the
following procedure to restart the cluster so that it can be repaired using
the cluster recovery utility:
Shutdown all but one of the cluster nodes
Using the Services Management snap-in (part of Computer Management), start
the Cluster service with the "/FixQuorum" switch on the remaining cluster
node
This procedure will start up the Cluster service, however, the cluster
group (including the quorum resource, the cluster IP address and the
cluster network name) will be offline. Other groups may be brought online.
You MUST make sure that all resources in the cluster group are offline
BEFORE running the cluster recovery utility.
Once the cluster service is up and running, you can use the disk
replacement procedure outlined in Recovering a shared disk to replace the
old quorum physical disk resource with the new quorum physical disk
resource.
Notes:
Since the cluster IP address and network name are offline, you must use the
name of the cluster node when connecting to the cluster
The replacement may take time, this is due to the Cluster service trying to
access the old quorum resource to recover any information.
Hope it helps!
Best Regards,
Jeff Qiu
Microsoft Online Partner Support
MCSE 2k/2k3, MCSA 2k/2k3, MCDBA
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>From: "David Beaven" <technet@ids.ac.uk>
>Subject: Move quorum to new disk
>Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 14:17:01 -0000
>microsoft.public.windows.server.clustering
>
>Assuming we remove the quorum disk and replace it with another disk
>Is this sufficient:
>a) start cluster service with /fixquorum
>b) change disk signature for quorum disk with e.g. clusterrecovery.exe
>c) restore checkpoint files using clusterrecevery.exe
>
>or do we have to do the more involved:
>a) start cluster service with /fixquorum
>b) change disk signature for quorum disk with e.g. clusterrecovery.exe
>c) restore system state from backup. Run clusrest.exe to copy system state
>quorum files back to the quorum drive.
>
>The difference appears to be not restoring the quorum logs -unfortunately
>the documents I have found are not clear on this point (does fixquorum
>reinitialise the logs)
>
>Thanks
>David
>
>
>
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