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anoni · Guest

I have a quorum drive and shared data drive, are there any benefit to put
them in differ groups when I configure cluster services? by defaut, is it in
cluster group? Is there anyway I can have the shared drive more than 2tb on
one partition?

Thanks

Rodney R. Fournier [MVP] · Guest

Best practice is to leave the cluster group alone, don't mess with it. To
keep your system highly available the group needs to be left alone.

If you see another drive in the cluster group, its a mistake and should be
fixed :)

Clustering does not understand or carry about partitions, only what it sees
as physical disks.

Can you actually restore a 2TB disk in a timely fashion?

Cheers,

Rod

MVP - Windows Server - Clustering
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anoni · Guest

By default, the quorum disk is in the default group, and the shared data disk
in the group 0, any reasons?

Thanks

"Rodney R. Fournier [MVP]" wrote:

Rodney R. Fournier [MVP] · Guest

That is the way they programmed it. First disk = group 0, then second in
group 1, etc.

Cheers,

Rod

MVP - Windows Server - Clustering
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Rodney R. Fournier [MVP] · Guest

You can always rename a group (though I would not rename the cluster group).

Keep the cluster group as it is. Move your Group 1 disk to Group 0 if you
like and use them from that Group.

Cheers,

Rod

MVP - Windows Server - Clustering
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http://www.clusterhelp.com - Cluster Training

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anoni · Guest

will the cluster services stop working if I move the disk1 to cluster group?
I assume I can rename group 0 to a more meaningful name. right?

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anoni · Guest

When I’m testing my clustered servers by breaking network connectivity
(unplug the pub cables. I am using teamed nic), the cluster group failover
the secondary server, but not group 0 which contain the shared disk. When I
move the shared disk from group 0 to cluster group, the shared disk (or
drive) will failover just fine, any reasons?

I did a few other tests, all of them failed over ok.

Thanks.

"Rodney R. Fournier [MVP]" wrote:

Chuck Timon [MSFT] · Guest

If the heartbeat network is still connected the group with the disk will not
failover. The cluster group fails over because the IP address fails when
the public network connectivity goes away. A physical disk resource will
continue to stay online if it is the only resource in the group. It will
take all network connectivity, in this case, to get the 'lone' disk in the
group to fail over.

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anoni · Guest

Is there anyway to make the 'lone' disk failed over with the cluster group
when the network connectivity stopped?
According MS doc, it should. it did not mention anything as all network
connectivity need to be failed which include private

Thanks.

"Chuck Timon [MSFT]" wrote:

anoni · Guest

So, it is by design to not failed over the phsical disk when network pub
network connectivity stopped. Will the shared physical disk resource
availiable while the active node lost network connection? And will cluster
service stop function?

what would happen if i move the shared disk to the cluster group? It failed
over just fine when did moved. Does MS recommand it to do so?

Thanks.

"Chuck Timon [MSFT]" wrote:

Chuck Timon [MSFT] · Guest

All networks designated for cluster use on the node where the disk is online
would have to fail so a regroup could be initiated and another node in the
cluster could arbitrate for the resource and bring it online.

I'm a little confused as to why a group would contain a single disk resource
and nothing else. We used to do this with the quorum drive in NT 4. Now we
do it with the full expectation the lone disks will be either moved into
another group, or will be joined by other resources that can be used to
access the data that is stored on it (e.g. IP address, Network Name, File
Share Resource, Print Spooler, SQL, Exchange, etc...)

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anoni · Guest

Currently config
Cluster group: Cluster IP Address
Cluster Name
Disk Q: (quorum).
Group 0: disk s: physical disk
Data file Share

I need group 0 to be able to failover along with the cluster group when I
disconnected the pub nic cables.

When I move the group 0 resources to cluster group, it failed over just
fine. But not when I place the resources in the group 0, it won’t failover
with the cluster group.

Thanks.

"Chuck Timon [MSFT]" wrote:

anoni · Guest

Do I need to add another ip and cluster name for the group 0 in order to
failover correctly?

"anoni" wrote:

Chuck Timon [MSFT] · Guest

That is correct and here is a reference KB for you -

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/Q224/9/67.ASP&NoWebContent=1

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