RE: Unable to failover when public network cables are removed

Thanks for the advise. I have checked, the config matched as described in the
KB.

Regards,
Lester

"Charles Tolento" wrote:

> 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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