Re: Quorum drive

Indeed. Partitions should not be used. Your data and quorum now have to be
in the same group, which is breaking a best practice.

Talk to your hardware vendor, they should be able to educate on how it works
and how to correct this problem (after a nuke and pave of course).

Cheers,

Rodney R. Fournier

MVP - Windows Server - Clustering
http://www.nw-america.com - Clustering Website
http://www.msmvps.com/clustering - Blog
http://www.clusterhelp.com - Cluster Training
ClusterHelp.com is a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner


"WhiteJul" <whitejul@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:%23d1pWGqSGHA.2224@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I have three mirror sets, one for data (210 GB), the second for backup (150
GB) and the third one is 73 GB but I splitted it in two partition, one for
the Quorum (1GB) and the rest for data share (72GB).
Am I doing the right thing with my quorum? I did not see any other way to
allocate it 1GB of space.
Thanks for any advise!
White


"Rodney R. Fournier [MVP]" <rod@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
message news:uE402qeSGHA.5156@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I see. Microsoft clustering uses the Shared nothing model. Since every
partition on a disk is really part of the same disk, clustering lumps them
together. You have to nuke and pave, then create logicals at the hardware
level. Then Windows see them a separate physical disks and life is good.
Never use partitions with Clustering, but I am guessing you figured that
out
already :)

Cheers,

Rodney R. Fournier

MVP - Windows Server - Clustering
http://www.nw-america.com - Clustering Website
http://www.msmvps.com/clustering - Blog
http://www.clusterhelp.com - Cluster Training
ClusterHelp.com is a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner


"tony" <none@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:%230sFdjeSGHA.5036@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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
message news:OJgkdUXSGHA.5552@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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

MVP - Windows Server - Clustering
http://www.nw-america.com - Clustering Website
http://www.msmvps.com/clustering - Blog
http://www.clusterhelp.com - Cluster Training
ClusterHelp.com is a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner


"tony" <none@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:eB3%23puVSGHA.4920@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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)












.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Diskpart error: "The disk management services could not complete..
    ... Agreed on the diskpart offset, please talk to your hardware vendor for the ... MVP - Windows Server - Clustering ... When I try to align the partitions with diskpart with folowing commands: ... select disk 1 ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.clustering)
  • Re: what is a GPT disk?
    ... Clusters don't carry about partitions;) ... MVP - Windows Server - Clustering ... and GPT is it's updated twenty-first century counterpart. ... A GPT disk can support larger than 2 TB ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.clustering)
  • Re: adding a physical disk to a cluster group
    ... Best part might be that Virtual Server is now free! ... MVP - Windows Server - Clustering ... disk 3 SCSI, attached on a PCI SCSI controller. ... partitions are lumped together as one disk. ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.clustering)
  • Re: adding a physical disk to a cluster group
    ... M.G. - the best way for you to learn more about clustering with your current setup will be to create your cluster using Microsoft Virtual Server. ... disk 3 SCSI, attached on a PCI SCSI controller. ... partitions are lumped together as one disk. ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.clustering)
  • Re: adding a physical disk to a cluster group
    ... partitions are lumped together as one disk. ... MVP - Windows Server - Clustering ... new resource, I choose Physical Disk, and I click Next. ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.clustering)