Re: Adding Virtual Print Server Resource No Physical Disk Appears
- From: levine_the_machine <levinethemachine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 10:01:01 -0700
Hello again, and thanks to the gurus for the advice.
As in a previous reply...we must be pretty lucky here since we have a single
HP ML110 handling this today. It is at least two years old and has only gone
down once in that time due to a problem with a fan. In a 24 x 7 x 365 SLA,
the 8 hours we lost in the two years (17520 hours) equates to a 99.96%
uptime. Right? Anyway, my job was to improve on this...
Now I add two DL360's, all doubled up (Power, FAN, NIC, RAID1 for the OS,
etc.) and the MSA500 with three Super SCSI hot swap/ hot change disks
configured ala RAID5 and two fans, power supplies, controllers, etc.
With the MSCS now in the mix with all this doubled up hardware--the
expectation is to get to 99.996%...if we can...I hope I am not jinxing
myself...:)
Everything is backed up to a NAS and also to tape...diesel generator and UPS
for battery backup etc...but obviously we are counting on cluster failover at
the front end should anything happen to one server...disk, etc.
So, if I add a disk to the array, and then present it to the cluster I can
create a separate GROUP for the Spooler and then it should appear-as long as
it isn't in a GROUP?
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Thank you,
ltm
"Tim Walsh" wrote:
I duplicated the partitions in Virtual Server and as Jeff indicated only the.
physical drives are presented and controlled by the cluster. Both partitions
are available on the active nodes, and will fail over together. Not sure I'd
use this approach for a production server however, I think I'd present a
second physical drive.
"Tim Walsh" <tmwalsh@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:u%23Slc1WxIHA.4896@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
1) No, you didn't miss anything, Node1 is the active node and has the
resources in it.
2) It sounds like you only have 1 disk presented to the cluster with 2
partitions, on Node 1 can you see the partition? If not go into Computer
Management and then Disk Management and see if you see the 2nd partition.
If you see it there, you may need to initialize it and format and assign a
drive letter. I've never tried to set one up like this and to be honestnot
sure what will happen once you get it initilaized. Gonna go play with this
in Virtual Server and see what happens.
Here's a link to setting up a clustered print server
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278455
"levine_the_machine" <levinethemachine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
message news:B0B3B707-A23F-413F-98C6-1618C3FAC6B0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hello.
Just created a two node cluster. This is purposed for file and print
services. Everything is online and working. I have one GROUP called the
CLUSTER GROUP and it all looks healthy.
A couple of questions...
1) NODE1 has three folders ACTIVE GROUPS, ACTIVE RESOURCES, and NETWORK
INTERFACES. NODE2 has the same thing but NODE1 has records in each of
the
two folders, but NODE2 does not. DID I MISS SOMETHING?
2) In trying to set up a Virtual Print Server, I go through all of the
steps
but when it is time to create the PHYSICAL DISK resource...on the DISK
PARAMETERS screen--nothing appears in the drop down for the DISK. So I
can't
pick one and finish.
WHAT DO I NEED TO DO TO GET PAST THIS?
My shared storage is a MP SCSI MSA device with a bunch of hot swap/hot
change disks in a RAID5 configuration. There are backup servers,
controllers, fans, powersupplies, etc. It is one array with one volume
and
two partitions...one for QUORUM and one for DATA.
I would like to use this array for all disk resources-even if it is not
"recommended"--I know it adds some risk, but I am willing to take
it-versus
buying more $900 disks.
Would one of the gurus out there provide me with some direction? I need
to
get this cluster printing (file sharing works great!) and then I can move
on.
My ideal situation would be to use my existing array for virutal print
spooler group, IP address, network name, and physical disk. Can I just
create a PRINT SPOOLER resource in the CLUSTER GROUP?
Thanks in advance!
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Thank you,
ltm
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