Re: Moving 2003 cluster to new SAN

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"Travis" <Travis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:7CF08538-749B-4368-80A8-950FA4E5C972@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I would like to take our existing MS 2004 cluster and move the storage to a
new SAN. We have around 2.5T of data to move. I was planning on using the
following procedure:
1) Get one of the existing cluster nodes to see the new disk
2) Create a mirror with an existing cluster disk resource
3) Once the mirror is complete, break the mirror
4) Remove the old SAN resource from the cluster node

The part that I question is do we need to have both cluster nodes see the
mirror? What happens if the cluster resource with the drive letter fails to
the other cluster node?

If you did a search in google, Moving a Cluster to a New SAN, you will find several links where people rip off the content from this post. <G>
http://msmvps.com/blogs/clusterhelp/archive/2005/08/05/61741.aspx

I hope this helps.


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