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MSA 1500 disks not available for Windows Cluster

 
James Muell
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Re: MSA 1500 disks not available for Windows Cluster

Honestly, I would remove the cluster and start over. Setup the drives you want to use for the cluster with drive letters, i.e, quorum (Q drive); the fileshare (D Drive). Test copy something to them. If that works your cluster should build correctly and find both drives. Then build your cluster.

Are you using Windows 2003 sp1 Enterprise Ed?

What Michael said is true to some extent but not really necessary with Win2003 ent.
There are some other issues with setting up SQP2005 on a cluster but your not doing that.

Jeff Riechers
Occasional Advisor

Re: MSA 1500 disks not available for Windows Cluster

Ok, here is the problem.

Since I am booting off of the same SAN that I want to make my disks from, and they are part of the same physical array, they appear to the system as being on the same bus.

Cluster server does not support the shared disk on the same bus as the boot disk.