RE: HOW TO Expand or resizeSAN Partion

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Hi Mike,

Thanks for the advice. i had gone through all the article which you
suggested, I had few doubts...

1. What will happen with the quorum ? will Quorum update automatically after
reboot?

2. what are the major risk which you identify and what are the mitigation
action?

3. If i put a extra SAN (temp) and copied (backed Up) all critical data,
will it help me ?

DATA is very critical and i need to be sure before carry out the activity.


"Mike Rosado [MSFT]" wrote:

> Hi Sanjay,
>
> This is the article you would use. You should call Microsoft Product
> Support Services to obtain the latest Diskpart.exe outlined in article ID:
> 841650 and 875524 listed below:
>
> 304736 How to extend the partition of a cluster shared disk
> http://support.microsoft.com/?id=304736
>
> 841650 The DiskPart.exe utility cannot extend a logical drive in an extended
> http://support.microsoft.com/?id=841650
>
> 875524 The Diskpart utility or the Cluster Administrator may take many
> seconds
> http://support.microsoft.com/?id=875524
>
> Now in a Cluster, you should not be using Logical Partitions. You should
> be using individual LUNs (Logical Unit Number) listed as disk in Disk
> Manager.
>
> Now with regards to the Quorum disk, you should not have any need to expand
> the disk. Because it is recommended that you configure the quorum disk
> size to be 500 MB; this size is the minimum required for an efficient NTFS
> partition. Larger disk sizes are allowable but are not currently needed.
>
> 280345 Quorum Drive Configuration Information
> http://support.microsoft.com/?id=280345
>
> --------------------
> 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: <SanjayRaval@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: HOW TO Expand or resizeSAN Partion
> > Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2005 06:06:01 -0800
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I want to expand the SAN partion which is with windows 2003 cluster
> service.
> > Currently have 4 partion and want to resize all the partion.
> >
> > Does it affect quorum ? or can it be rebuilt ?
> >
> > Thanks in advance for helping me?
> >
> > Sanjay
> >
> >
> >
>
>
.

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