Re: Moving a Quorum from the c drive to a San Dsik array

Make sure you present a new LUN from you SAN to both servers for your new quorum. Don't use one of the existing disks. Once you've presented the disk to both nodes, formatted it, assigned it a drive letter, then you can create it as a new 'Physical Disk' resource in the same group as your MNS resource. Once online, you can move the quorum designation as Rodney indicated and delete the old MNS resource.
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Jeff Hughes, MCSE
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"Rodney R. Fournier" <rod@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:A48F6399-1A25-438B-947B-399F2B3DA812@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Wait if I read your post correctly you are clustering Domain Controllers? If so, fix that.

To move the quorum use Cluster Administrator, right click on the Cluster name, go to the Quorum tab, use the disk drop down to select a new disk resource. Yes it is just that simple.

Issue two is because of issue one. I believe you are running as a Majority Node Set. If so, do step 1 above, then remove the MSN resource from your cluster group.

MPIO is a good thing, don't mess with that :)

Cheers,

Rodney R. Fournier
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"Greg" <Greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:453E89BB-864B-45FF-901B-905876E77984@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi,
I'm definitely new to clustering. I have two issues. I set-up an
active/passive cluster on windows 2003 running A.D with home folders etc on a
San unit's disks. I've come to realize or so I've been told, that the Quorum
should be sitting on the San unit. Currently the Quorum is sitting on both
the servers C drive. The only thing I want to move is the Quorum. Is there an
easy way to do this?
Also, I seem to have a cluster issue that may or may not be related to the
probelm above. It seems that when the cluster fails over to the other server,
the server that would become offline(inactive) needs to be up and running for
the new active server to work correctly. I'm not sure why this would happen.
I'm also running microsofts MPIO.
Any help would be greatly, greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.


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