RE: Unable to failover when public network cables are removed

Also make sure you are following KB 258750 to setup your Heartbeat Networks.

Regards

cT

"Unable to failover" wrote:

> 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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