Replacing a Shared Disk on a 2008 Failover Cluster

re: Replacing a Shared Disk on a 2008 Failover Cluster

sands2315 — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 10:57:46 GMT

Got a question. Would you be able to replace cluster disk with a disk type.

Old disk - 1024 GB - Initialised as MBR.

New disk - 3072 GB - Initialised as GPT (GUID Partition Table).

re: Replacing a Shared Disk on a 2008 Failover Cluster

Carmoussa — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 10:17:11 GMT

Hi Jeff,

very smart approach.

Any information, link, post on how migrating Win2003 R2 File Server cluster to new SAN ? I've been looking on thenet without success.

re: Replacing a Shared Disk on a 2008 Failover Cluster

Arindam — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 12:09:32 GMT

A really good one.

Thanks a lot

re: Replacing a Shared Disk on a 2008 Failover Cluster

Dan — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 13:57:11 GMT

Thanks for the information. What additional steps are required to replace the quorum disk? Do you still have to start the cluster service with the /fixquorum switch like in Windows 2003?

Thanks

re: Replacing a Shared Disk on a 2008 Failover Cluster

yup. _ — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:12:35 GMT

What does the repair function do in this case ?

I've seen a case when the only disk being introduced in a cluster (made via cli) failed & wount come online. After REPAIR its workimg.

re: Replacing a Shared Disk on a 2008 Failover Cluster

Andrea Caldarone — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 13:25:43 GMT

Hi Jeff,

you have not to edit "cluster disk X:" policies to force the resource to not failover to the other node and then simulate the failure. You can simply put "cluster disk X:" offline and the do the "repair" wizard. It works.