Re: New Cluster Questions

Nah, that's the last thing to worry about ;-)

What he should be worried about is that he's using SCSI instead of
fibre...and it probably isn't terminated properly.

Regards,
John

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"Chuck [MSFT]" <ctimon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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First things first, did you verify your cluster solution is listed here -

http://www.windowsservercatalog.com/results.aspx?bCatID=1291&cpID=0&ocID=20&OR=1

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Chuck Timon, Jr.
Microsoft Corporation
Windows Server 2008 Readiness Team
This posting is provided 'AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights.

"bmbrown" <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I am attempting (unsuccessfully) to create a simple file cluster. I
have two Dell 2950's that I'm connecting via SCSI to a Promise
Technologies VTrak 15110. I have a quorum logical drive defined at 500
MB, as well as a few data drives at 2TB each (that was the documented
limit, correct?). All drives are formatted MBR, with a single primary
partition. Both servers can see the quorum drive and have access to
create and delete files to the drive. Both servers are 2003 Ent. R2,
x64, SP2.

Anytime I try to create a cluster, upon configuring the resources, the
wizard (and command line tools for that matter) always fail at:

Failed to set resource 'Disk Q:' to be the quorum resource.
Error 0x800706be: The remote procedure call failed.

Then it also give the same error when trying to set the quorum
resource. This results in the system creating a Local Quorum and
utilizing that as the quorum drive.

When I go to the properties of the cluster and attempt to move the
quorum resource from the Local Quorum to Disk Q:, the system pauses
for a period, then comes back with the cluster no longer being
available due to the service stopping and starting again. It also
indicates the RPC server failed.

In the event log, I get a set of errors, the first being 1080 with a
description of:

Cluster service could not write to a file (Q:\MSCS\quolog.log). The
disk may be low on disk space, or some other serious condition exists.

The disk is not full, and I have even tried to increase the logical
drive to 1-10 GB with the same results, hence leading me to the
conclusion that some other serious condition exists (besides my mental
state at this point).

After that error, I get the error signifying that the cluster service
was halted, a restart error indicating that the service will be
restarted, then a series of errors (event ID 57) of:

The system failed to flush data to the transaction log. Corruption may
occur.

I understand the RPC server error could be due to OS problems, and
have gone through as many documents as possible to determine any OS
issues, but to no avail.

I would gladly take any suggestions anyone might have.

Thanks for your time.

Brian.




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