Re: Cluster group takes five minutes to fail over

Are you using any multi-path software for your HBAs? If so, this might cause
this type of behavior. Also check your HBA firmware and drivers and make
sure these are current.

Regards,
John

<dbcricket@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> We have several two node clusters (all are Windows 2000 Advanced
> Server, SP 4, all hotfixes). A single group on one of these clusters
> takes five minutes to manually fail over between nodes. It has 12 file
> share resources, a Generic Service resource (which is present on every
> cluster; it runs our backup software), and the IP Address, Network
> Name, and Physical disk resources.
>
> When I manually fail over the group, all the resources go off line in
> fairly short order until the physical disk resource. That resource
> takes about two minutes to go offline. The process is then reversed on
> the other node; the physical disk resource takes about two minutes to
> come online, and then all the other resources follow in normal fashion.
>
> What could be causing this? I can't see anything to indicate problems
> in the event log. The shared storage is an IBM FAStT.
>


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