Cluster question - help!!

[Colin]

Hello,

I'm wondering if anyone can help.

The cluster service installs okay on both servers.

When I move over one disk group away from the server
owning the cluster group the default admin share becomes
inaccessable.
I move it back to the server owning the cluster group, I
can access the default admin share again.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance

Colin

 

[Doug Frisk]

Hello,

I'm wondering if anyone can help.

The cluster service installs okay on both servers.

When I move over one disk group away from the server
owning the cluster group the default admin share becomes
inaccessable.
I move it back to the server owning the cluster group, I
can access the default admin share again.

Any ideas?

It's working.

 

[Colin]

I actually need to achieve an active/active cluster.

When the cluster was set up a few days ago I could move
the disk groups between the servers and they were all
accessable.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!

 

[Doug Frisk]

I actually need to achieve an active/active cluster.

When the cluster was set up a few days ago I could move
the disk groups between the servers and they were all
accessable.

No. They weren't. MSCS uses a shared nothing model. If a resource is
"homed" on one node that resource is not available at all from the other
node.

I'm assuming from what you've said that you have a shared drive like X: and
you're attempting to access \\nodeA\x$, \\nodebB\x$ and \\Virtualname\x$.
The reality is that x$ will only be available deterministically through the
virtual server name.

Now, before you installed the cluster service you could have had
simultaneous access to the X: drive from both nodes, but since there is no
synchronization you're guaranteed to have damaged the file system on the X:
drive requiring a reformat at some point.