Re: Newbie - Quorum on SAN

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From: Rodney R. Fournier [MVP] (rod_at_die.spam.die.nw-america.com)
Date: 01/24/05 

Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 09:45:14 -0600

What is any messages do you have in the event logs? Is your hardware on the
Clustering HCL? Have you checked your hardware config and drivers/firmware?

Cheers,

Rod

MVP - Windows Server - Clustering
http://www.nw-america.com - Clustering
http://msmvps.com/clustering - Blog

"ajay" <ajaydarji@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:%23wTH7miAFHA.2428@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> That's correct everything was working and when I reboot both the nodes
> nothing works. Even the cluster service won't start. I have tried
> starting node 1 first and then bring node 2, but didn't help. I have to
> discount the fiber cable from both nodes and boot the nodes up. Once the
> servers are up, I rescan the drives and then connect the fiber cable to
> node1 and rescan the drives again a couple of times and then the quorum
> drive is accessible and the cluster service will also starts.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Ajay
>
>
> "Rodney R. Fournier [MVP]" <rod@die.spam.die.nw-america.com> wrote in
> message news:e3VD9$x$EHA.3924@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>> Ok, so everything was working, you reboot the nodes and now nothing is
>> not working? The cluster service is not started on either node? DHCP did
>> not start up?
>>
>> What have you tried? Can you get either node to start the cluster
>> service? You know not to reboot both at the same time? What does your
>> event log have to on this matter?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Rod
>>
>> MVP - Windows Server - Clustering
>> http://www.nw-america.com - Clustering
>> http://msmvps.com/clustering - Blog
>>
>> "ajay" <ajaydarji@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> news:OLETN8x$EHA.1404@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
>>>I have two dell servers in a cluster setup to do DHCP. Both the servers
>>>are connected to the SAN (HP VA7410) through a Cisco switch. I have the
>>>quorum setup on the SAN. My problem is when I reboot both the nodes,
>>>neither of the nodes can access the quorum drive. When I go to disk
>>>manager on both the nodes, both can see the drive, but when I open my
>>>computer I see the Q:\ drive but can't access it. What do I need to do
>>>so that at least one of the servers would always connect to the quorum
>>>drive on the SAN after a reboot?
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

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