Re: SAN Drive Presentation

I mistakenly was comparing "paths" instead of drives. On the File&Print
cluster they are in the right order as far as MPIO is concerned, but not the
same in Disk Manager. This is how they compare:

Disk# Node1 Node2
0 C:\ C:\
1 Quorum Q: DHCP_Data D:
2 File_Data F: Print_Spooler P:
3 Unknown Unknown
4 Unknown Unknown
5 vbe_data V: Unknown

I discovered this issue when I go to run a backup using Backup Exec and I
get all these VSS errors on the drive:
Event ID 12290
Volume Shadow Copy Service warning:
GetVolumeInformationW(\\?\Volume{6335ed8b-2ecf-11da-9bb4-0014384d9365}\,NULL,0,NULL,NULL,[0x00000000], , 260) == 0x00000057. hr = 0x00000000.

When I try to fail it over I get these drive corruption errors:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: ClusSvc
Event Category: Physical Disk Resource
Event ID: 1066
Date: 10/26/2006
Time: 4:48:20 PM
User: N/A
Computer: FP1
Description:
Cluster disk resource "DHCP Physical Storage" is corrupt. Run 'ChkDsk /F' to
repair problems. The volume name for this resource is
"\\?\Volume{6335ed90-2ecf-11da-9bb4-0014384d9365}\".
If available, ChkDsk output will be in the file
"C:\WINDOWS\Cluster\ChkDsk_Disk4_Sig037C3AE1.log".
ChkDsk may write information to the Application Event Log with Event ID
26180.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

Event Type: Error
Event Source: ClusSvc
Event Category: Physical Disk Resource
Event ID: 1035
Date: 10/26/2006
Time: 4:48:20 PM
User: N/A
Computer: FP1
Description:
Cluster disk resource 'DHCP Physical Storage' could not be mounted.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

Event Type: Error
Event Source: ClusSvc
Event Category: Failover Mgr
Event ID: 1069
Date: 10/26/2006
Time: 4:48:20 PM
User: N/A
Computer: FP1
Description:
Cluster resource 'DHCP Physical Storage' in Resource Group 'DHCP Server'
failed.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

I just tried to fail over another group (Print Spooler) and I get the same
errors. What are the chances of corrupting 2 seperate drives at the same time?

I'm thinking that when I try to failover Drive1 on Node2 it sees that Drive1
on Node1 is already occupied, hence the failure. just a thought. any ideas on
a fix?

Drive #5 (V:) will fail over normally (Veritas Group).

Coincidently, on my Exchange cluster, Disk Manager mirrors betwee the two
nodes; meaning what's active on node1 is inactive on node2.

Thanks

GMKovach


"Edwin vMierlo" wrote:

Physical drive numbering does not have to be the same between nodes
(it would be nice for reference, but not needed)

is it all physical disks or just some ?

if you completely power-down the physical node 1, does anything failover to
node 2 ?
(unless this is production, then obviously do not do a powerdown)

Next step is to look in the system event-log for any messages, or the
cluster log for any clues


"GMKovach" <GMKovach@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:E5283943-5EBD-4700-9D28-F35339AA3875@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi,
I'm currently having an issue with physical disks not failing over in
an
Active/Passive 2003 Cluster. The drives are on an HP EVA6000 SAN. When I
run
the MPIO utility I notice that the nodes do not see the devices (Disks) in
the same order. Is this an issue? Also, if you compare Disk Manager
between
the nodes, should they be opposite of each other? For example, if Disk1 on
Node1 is Active, Should Disk1 on Node2 be inactive?

Thanks

GMKovach



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