Re: Unable to failover when public network cables are removed

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Hi Gerald,

Sorry for the confusion. There is only 1 standard cluster group. Inside this
cluster group there is only Cluster IP address, Cluster Name and the Quorum
Disk. There is no other resources.

So the problem is when we pull out the 2 public network cables from node1,
the Cluster IP and Name turned offline while the Quorum Disk remian Online.
It did not failover to node2. This is a new setup, and it works initially.

Hope this clarify the problem description.

Thanks and Regards,
Lester

"Gerald Aigenbauer" wrote:

> hi!
>
> you should not have any resources, needed by a user in the standard cluster
> group. create another group for the user resources.
>
> gerald aigenbauer.
>
> "Unable to failover" <Unabletofailover@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb im
> Newsbeitrag news:4AC12929-7A21-4C1D-B251-5E239DC2FBAF@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Hi Gerald, thank u for the reply. But we are able to get it refresh
> > sometimes
> > even when the resources fails. These resources has failed over to another
> > node.
> >
> > And regarding the other issue where only the cluster ip and name went
> > offline but the quorum disk remains online, do you have any advise on
> > that?
> > When node1 have 2 of its public n/w cable pulled out, the cluster ip and
> > name
> > goes offline, but the quorum disk remains online. As a result, node2 is
> > unable to take over the quorum and the cluster group is inaccessible
> > because
> > the resources are offline.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Lester
> >
> > "Gerald Aigenbauer" wrote:
> >
> >> hi mr. unable to failover!
> >>
> >> you cannot connect the cluster admin to the cluster name, if the resource
> >> of
> >> the clustername or it´s virtual ip-adress is offline. you can connect the
> >> cluster admin to name "." on a node or to the local clusternodename.
> >>
> >> gerald aigenbauer.
> >>
> >> "Unable to failover" <Unable to failover@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> schrieb
> >> im Newsbeitrag news:62419728-B3EC-42A3-A0AE-65167C9EDDCF@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > We have setup 2 Windows 2003 Enterprise Servers with MS Clustering.
> >> > The cluster was setup using the standard guide from Microsoft.
> >> >
> >> > The configurations are as follow:
> >> >
> >> > 1) 3 NIC cards for each server: 2 on board NIC cards using Network
> >> > Teaming
> >> > for Network redundancy. 1 for Heartbeat using cross cable.
> >> >
> >> > 2) 2 HBA cards for each server for SAN redundancy.
> >> >
> >> > We are testing the failover by removing the server1 network connection
> >> > on
> >> > the 2 public interface which are configured for teaming. It was working
> >> > well
> >> > initially, that is, server1 is able to failover to server2. But then
> >> > there
> >> > occurs a time when it refuse to failover. The Cluster IP address and
> >> > Cluster
> >> > Name was Offline but the Quorum disk still showing Online. This has
> >> > resulted
> >> > the Cluster Group to be down as the 2 resources are offline. We have to
> >> > manually Bring Online the resources. When we try to do the same thing
> >> > again
> >> > by pulling out the 2 public network cables, it happened again, just
> >> > refuse
> >> > to
> >> > failover.
> >> >
> >> > We also noticed that when the 2 public network cables were pulled out,
> >> > the
> >> > server1 Cluster Admin have problem refeshing. When I tried to connect
> >> > to
> >> > the
> >> > Cluster Admin using server1's name instead of the Cluster Name, then it
> >> > is
> >> > fine. Shouldn't it be able to refresh properly.
> >> >
> >> > Hope someone can help.
> >> >
> >> > Thanks alot.
> >> >
> >> > Regards,
> >> > Lester
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
>
>
.

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