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Hi All
I'm trying to build a test environment to test Windows Clustering, problem is I only have one server and no external drives. The server is a Compaq ML370, Smart array 3200 with 6 18.2GB drives. The controller is configured with 2 array's, the first array is RAID 1 (2 drives, C & D), the second is RAID 5 (4 drives, Q).
When I run cluster administrator I get the warning: The physical disk "Disk Q:" cannot be managed because it is on the same storage bus as the boot disk. and Could not locate a sharable quorum resource and a local quorum cluster will be created. The cluster wizard finishes and brings the group online but when I try to create a Physical Resource there are no drives available to choose from.
Any help would be greatly appriciated
thanx
I'm trying to build a test environment to test Windows Clustering, problem is I only have one server and no external drives. The server is a Compaq ML370, Smart array 3200 with 6 18.2GB drives. The controller is configured with 2 array's, the first array is RAID 1 (2 drives, C & D), the second is RAID 5 (4 drives, Q).
When I run cluster administrator I get the warning: The physical disk "Disk Q:" cannot be managed because it is on the same storage bus as the boot disk. and Could not locate a sharable quorum resource and a local quorum cluster will be created. The cluster wizard finishes and brings the group online but when I try to create a Physical Resource there are no drives available to choose from.
Any help would be greatly appriciated
thanx
Lee W, MVP
It's pretty much explaining the problem - You can't have the shared cluster disk on the same controller as the system drives. If you're trying to build a test environment, get an IDE or SCSI drive and install the OS on that on a different controller - forget about RAIDing it - there's no need - it's a test server. Then use your RAID controller as the controller for the clustered disks.
Once you get a shareable disk, the quorum issue will go away - you'll be able to put Quorum on the shareable disk and be fine.
(I've managed to build a cluster using a couple low end systems and a 2 Adaptec 2910 SCSI cards with an external highly generic storage array - all I needed to do was make sure I changed the card ID on one of the cards so there wasn't an ID conflict on the SCSI bus - NO, it's not a supported config, but for testing clustering and learning it, it worked fine.
(I've managed to build a cluster using a couple low end systems and a 2 Adaptec 2910 SCSI cards with an external highly generic storage array - all I needed to do was make sure I changed the card ID on one of the cards so there wasn't an ID conflict on the SCSI bus - NO, it's not a supported config, but for testing clustering and learning it, it worked fine.
try to run your cluster nodes on vmware or virtual pc.
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Works fine with cluster
microsoft has a client software a company called string bean has the tartget softare the has a demo
The stuff work great
taske with the microsoft virturl server you have a good test bed on single computer for cluster.