Re: Win2k3 R2 - Storage Reporting on File Svr Cluster (SCSI-Attach

Hi Mike,

The 2 servers in the cluster that I set up under 2003 R2 were set up
exactly in the way the IBM documentation stated. Unfortunately, the native
Microsoft resource drivers did not see the shared disk/logical volumes and I
had to use the IBM ServeRAID IPSHA resource driver to attach the disk
resource. This is where I'm having the problem. The shared logical volumes
are there in the resource manager, however they're in there using the IPSHA
driver instead of the native Microsoft driver because the Microsoft driver
couldn't see the logical volumes. It seems that the FSRM can't read any of
the logical volumes attached through the IBM IPSHA resource driver.

Paul


"Mike Rosado [MSFT]" wrote:

Paul,

You can sucessfully use IPSHA to configure a cluster, but for this you would
need to seek help from IBM. Below is an old article of theirs that
discusses IPSHAHTO (Hostile Take-Over utility) on Microsoft Windows 2000
Advanced Server to configure an MSCS (cluster).

Installing Cluster Service using ServeRAID controller for Microsoft Windows
2000 Advanced Server - Servers
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4FJPZ7

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"Paul L" <PaulL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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That would explain it then. The IPSHA.DLL which drives the IBM ServeRaid
adapters and create the shared disk fine, but the native MS disk resource
won't read or see it. So I guess I'm out of luck there...


"Mike Rosado [MSFT]" wrote:

Hi Paul,

Are you using FSRM? Because in clustered environments, FSRM only allows
you
to generate reports on shared disks for which a cluster disk resource
exists.

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-----Original Message-----
"Paul L" <Paul L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Chuck,

This is an IBM EXP400 disk array and the ipsha.dll from IBM is loaded.
The
logical shared disk seen at drive D:. This is installed on each node,
however, when I browse the server and select any disk letter from the
report
scope dialog, i get the error that it's on a cluster server.

The documentation seems a little lacking with setting this up on a
cluster
server. Is there anything online to step someone through it?

Thanks in advance,
Paul


"Chuck Timon [Microsoft]" wrote:

To use Storage Resource Manager in R2 you will need a VDS Provider
from
your
storage vendor installed on each node. Then, in a cluster, to run
reports,
you must be running the reports from the node that currently has the
volume
online that you want to report on.

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Microsoft Corporation
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"Paul L" <limahl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Greets!

I've recently set up a 2-node file server cluster under Windows
2003
Ent.
R2 with a scsi attached disk array. Failovers work great and life
is
grand, however I would like to set up the new R2 features for
Storage
Report Management and send out reports to our SysAdmin group. The
problem
is that the MMC tool won't let me report on the drive that I need
since
it's a cluster node.

I get the dialog:
Selected report scope paths: D:\.

You have chosen an invalid combination of paths for the report
scope.
On
clustered deployments, all report scope paths should be set on
volumes
that belong to the same cluster resource group. Please select valid
report scope paths.

As I am relatively new to doing Windows Clustering (this was my 1st
one
actually), either I'm missing something in the terminology or some
configuration setting that I overlooked needs to be set.

I'm hoping someone can guide me to the answer.

Thanks in advance,
Paul L.










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