RE: Drive mappings on clustered servers
- From: idontknow <idontknow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 15:00:02 -0800
Thanks, the information you gave me is what I needed to redo the folder share
correctly.
"Mike Rosado [MSFT]" wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It sounds like the problem you're experiencing occurs, because drive letter
> mapping for the home folder succeeds and causes a conflict with the drive
> letter mapping for the physical disk. Therefore, the storage device loses
> the drive letter and causes the failure of the physical disk resource to
> occur. On a stand-alone server, similar behavior may occur if a home folder
> mapping conflicts with the drive letter mapping of a storage device. In
> this scenario, the storage device loses the drive letter assignment and the
> home folder mapping succeeds; the storage device becomes inaccessible. If
> the physical disk resource is the quorum resource, the Cluster service may
> stop working.
>
> To work around this problem, avoid the drive letter mapping conflict by
> selecting drive letters for the physical disk resources that do not
> conflict with the automatic mapping for home folders. When you map a drive
> manually, the operating system only offers unused drive letters for
> selection.
>
> NOTE: On a Windows Clustering server, drive letters may be listed as
> available even when they are already mapped to drives by another node in
> the cluster.
>
> To resolve this problem, and to guarantee the highly available status of
> clustered systems, review the following articles to ensure nothing is being
> missed.
>
> 224967 How to create file shares on a cluster
> http://support.microsoft.com/?id=224967
>
> 256926 Implementing Home Folders on a Server Cluster
> http://support.microsoft.com/?id=256926
>
> 318534 Best Practices for Drive-Letter Assignments on a Server Cluster
> http://support.microsoft.com/?id=318534
>
> --------------------
> Hope this helps,
> Mike Rosado
> Windows 2000 MCSE + MCDBA
> Microsoft Enterprise Platform Support
> Windows NT/2000/2003 Cluster Technologies
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> > From: <idontknow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: Drive mappings on clustered servers
> > Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 16:34:02 -0800
> >
> > After rebooting the clustered servers the 5 folder mappings have to be
> > recreated. What is the correct way to set them up so they will remain
> after a
> > reboot?
> >
> >
>
>
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