Re: Cluster Freezes

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Odd indeed. Try taking the group offline manually, then move group, then
bring each disk online one at a time. Does this come online faster?

Regards,
John

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"Rog" <Rog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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None, that's is what is odd. I was expecting to have some.

"John Toner [MVP]" wrote:

Are you getting chkdsk logs in you c:\windows\cluster folder when you
fail
over?

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John

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"Rog" <Rog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I am not using shadow copy, only using file shares and I have one
service
resource called Extreme Z-IP, that has a dependency of all the disk.

If I take the group offline and bring the disk online one by one. Of
the 8
disk, 4 of them take a long time to come on...as much as 5 minutes per
each
disk. I changed the disk settings so there are no dep. now, but that
didn't
seem to make a difference.

I have 3 other cluster groups and they don't have any issues with disk
or
the group coming online or moving.

So, my natural reaction is that maybe I need to run chkdsk on these 4
disk.
But, not sure where to go from here?

"Edwin vMierlo [MVP]" wrote:


But, the real problem is coming back online. IP and Network name
are
fast
and then I have a period of about 30 minutes waiting for the
Physical
disk
to
come online and then the fileshares come online quickly after or
it
never
finishes bringing the disk online before it freezes.


That is good information,

Question I would ask is, is the time it takes to online the same or
similar
if you take the groups offline, and the only online the disk
(without
moving
any groups) ?

Second question I would ask is are you using shadow copies ?

If your answer is yes to both, the please look at this KB
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=945058

rgds,
Edwin.








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