Re: Quorum drive

Yeah, you can't cluster partitions, just the LUNs (drives presented by the
DAS). Think about it this way - when the cluster fails over and issues a
SCSI reset, the lun has to go with, but in your setup, potentially the
quorum group could stay on one node and the app group on the other node, and
now that LUN is presented to both nodes...

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Thanks,
Brian Desmond
Windows Server MVP

www.briandesmond.com


"tony" <none@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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It is a test cluster. But What happened was I created 1 logical drive
(RAID 1+0). Then in Disk Management under windows, I created separate
partitions 1Gb (Q Drive) and 800GB (E Data drive)

then ran cluster setup but Qurom failed to detect shared resources. I
select advance minimum and all it did was point my quorum to
c:\windows\cluster

there was absolutely no choice in selecting where I can put my quroum,. I
want qurom on Q which is on the shared array


"Rodney R. Fournier [MVP]" <rod@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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Is this a test cluster? If so don't worry about it. Leave it all on Q and
leave why this is such a bad idea :)

Do you want to follow best practices? If so Nuke and Pave. Then create a
Logical disk of 1 GB for the Quorum, and the rest for the data.

Sometimes we learn by doing things over and over and over again.

Cheers,

Rodney R. Fournier

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"tony" <none@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Does the Q Quroum drive have to be on a separate disk?

Because I created a raid 1+0 RAIDarray out of 6 300GB drives on a dell
powervault 220 which has both my Q and Data drive (shared)









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