Re: extend the volume of a basic cluster disk

I have no expertise on Shark boxes... With HDS (valid also for HP XP and Sun
as they are HDS OEM'ed) and EMC (both Clariion and DMX) it works fine.

Ramon

"Mohamed Y. Saleem" <MohamedYSaleem@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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Hi
this is what I questioned IBM. They still insist do not use diskpart.
Actually, i have 200GB drive from ESS currently on my cluster server. The
ESS
800 does not have the capability to extend the 200GB to 300GB directly.
You
have to create additional 100GB (separate) LUN which will be seen by
windows
as a separate drive (volume).
I did explain this clearly to IBM, but still their experts tell us not to
use dispart. I do not know why, i am running out of time as my user disk
space is getting full.

pls. someone help me out on this. If anyone has done the same on ESS 800,
let me know.

thanks

--
Mohamed Y. Saleem
PMP, IBM, MCSE, MCSA(Messaging), SCSA, CCNA


"Ramon Jiménez [MVP]" wrote:

Do not confuse Diskpar from DiskPart, with a "t" final...

With Diskpart (with "t") you are not peforming any task on the ESS just
on
the LUN seen by the OS and that should have already been extended by the
ESS, using IBM tools

Ramon

"Mohamed Y. Saleem" <MohamedYSaleem@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
message news:27CABC15-199D-4B6C-9E37-4C1560F12FEE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hello Friends
Thanks for all the help. But when i questioned IBM, this is the reply
from
them. Can anyone tell me is this right or i can still do it ignoring
IBM
reply.


There is no harm in using DiskPar on the ESS for MS Exchange (DiskPar
being
the utility to change storage boundaries). It might offer some
performance
improvement. Please see :
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/exchange/guides/E2k3Perf_ScalGuide/0e24eb22-fbd5-4536-9cb4-2bd8e98806e7.mspx

DiskPart is a Windows tool from the ResourceKit to change partitions
etc.

Please DO NOT use this tool on the ESS !


--
Mohamed Y. Saleem
PMP, IBM, MCSE, MCSA(Messaging), SCSA, CCNA


"MarkFox" wrote:

M,

As I listed in my reply, at a command prompt on the cluster node that
currently owns the drive you want to extend, type Diskpart, then type
list
volume, then type select volume x where x is the disk you want to
extend.
Then type extend and it will take all the space that you gave it from
your
SAN management tools. If you do a list volume again you will see all
the
space now.

Good Luck.
--
Mark


"Ramon Jiménez [MVP]" wrote:

Hi M,

DiskPart is your tool.

First of all, you should extend the LUN in the Storage box by using
IBM
tools for such purpose.

Then, you only have to follow this article:

How to extend the partition of a cluster shared disk
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/304736/en-us

Read carefully ther requirements section.

Ramon

"M.Y.Saleem" <MYSaleem@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:485F674E-8704-41CC-89FA-8192C73D757F@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi
I have 2-node cluster which is providing file & print services.
Each
node
has its own basic cluster disk.

Both the disk are now 100%full and i would like to extend them by
adding
more space. Our SAN storage is IBM ESS 800 (shark).

Is it possible to extend the basic cluster disk, if so what is the
procedure. Can anyone help me in this its very urgent and the
disks
are
almost full.

thanks in advance
regards
Mohamed Saleem








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