Re: Physical disk hangs at "offline pending"

Hi,

No, there are no dependencies for this resource.
That is what I expected for a physical disk resource.

Thanks in Advance.
--
Henry


"Chuck Timon [MSFT]" wrote:

Answer me this, when you look at the properties for this disk resource and
inspect the 'dependencies' tab...is there anything listed there?

Chuck Timon, Jr.
Microsoft Corporation
Longhorn Readiness Team
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

"Henry" <Henry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi,

1) No. The file system is NTFS.
2) Event ID 1145 - Cluster resource OracleDB timed out. (Physical disk
name)
Event ID 1205 - The cluster service failed to bring the resource group
"OracleDB" completely online or offline.
3)00000f7c.00000810::2007/03/01-15:51:35.805 INFO [FM]
FmpRmOfflineResource:
RmOffline() for 5fa5cc41-66f4-4b14-9d9c-32c7f67347a5 returned error
997. ---
0000c20.00000f18::2007/03/01-17:56:22.860 INFO [FM] FmpRmOfflineResource:
RmOffline() for 667e7691-4049-44fe-9380-c620cd79971d returned error 997

The following entry is repeated:
00000c20.00000a60::2007/03/01-17:58:25.379 INFO [FM] FmpCompleteMoveGroup:
Exit, status = 997
00000c20.00000a60::2007/03/01-17:58:25.875 INFO [FM] FmpCompleteMoveGroup:
Completing the move for group BANCTEC to node 1 (1)
00000c20.00000a60::2007/03/01-17:58:25.875 INFO [FM] FmpOfflineResource:
Offline resource <OracleDB> returned pending

until finally:
00000c20.00000a60::2007/03/01-17:59:40.276 INFO [FM] FmpCompleteMoveGroup:
Exit, status = 997
000002f4.00000388::2007/03/01-17:59:40.757 WARN [RM] RmpTimerThread:
Resource OracleDB pending timed out, CP 3 - setting state to failed.

This last messege may be the result of us getting fed up and shutting down
the server that will not release the physical drive.
4) The other resources are offline. On the odd occasion another physical
disk displays the pending offline symtoms as well.

Thanks in Advance

--
Henry


"Edwin vMierlo" wrote:

Henry,

just a few questions:
- is this Oracle FileSystem (ocfs.sys) ?
- what errors do you see in the system event log (please post) ?
- what errors do you see in the cluster.log (please post) ?
- once the disk is in off-line pending state... what other cluster
resources
are off-line pending ?

thnx,
edwin.




"Henry" <Henry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi,

We have installed Oracle failsafe on this cluster and the drive in
question
is part of the "Cluster Group" set of resources. The oracle database
resides
on this SAN drive. I have stopped all oracle services on the server
giving
me
the problems and the disk still does not go offline to enable a
failover
unless the server is shut down.
I suppose there must be something else preventing the failover and am
trying
to determine what could be preventing this disk from being released.
The
server in question does have exclusive rights to this physical disk
when
it
is the active member.
If anyone has any idea as to how I might determine if some process is
refusing to release it's resources please make a suggestion.
Is there a way to increase the logging level of the cluster and should
that
give me a better indication of what may be the problem? (the logs are
fairly
hard to decipher even at the default logging level).

Thanks in Advance,
--
Henry


"Chuck Timon [MSFT]" wrote:

Sounds like something has a handle to the drive that is preventing
cluster
from completing the Offline process. What kind of group is this disk
resource in?

Chuck Timon, Jr.
Microsoft Corporation
Longhorn Readiness Team
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights.

"Henry" <Henry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi,

I have a 2 node cluster that works correctly when the active server
goes
down.
All resources are taken over by the passive member.

When I try to move resources from node 1 to node 2 everything works
fine
as
well.
The problem is that when I try to move the the resources back to
the
original node all resources move except for one physical disk. This
physical
disk status remains as "offline pending". The cluster log contains
many
entries similar to what follows:
"FmpofflineResource: offline resource <drivex>returned pending"
until finally
"RmpTimerThread: Resource drivex pending timed out, CP 3 - seting
state to
failed."

The only way for us to get the offline resource available for the
other
cluster member is to reboot the server that failed to put the
physical
drive
offline.

Any ideas would be appreciated.
--
Thanks in Advance,

Henry







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