Single node cluster

[Damir]

Hi!

We installed single node cluster with -localquorum command line
switch.
Network name and IP Address is succesfully created in cluster and
brought on-line.

Now, we need to install some applications (SQL, Exchange, ...). In
order to do that we need to define some physical disks.
Our server has only one RAID controller with one logical RAID5 array.
We intend to divide it in 4 logical (basic disks under Windows 2000
with NTFS). But, those disks are not visible in cluster administrator
as physical disk resources.

If it is not possible to make applications installed on cluster to use
local disks, it seems bit confusing how any application can be
installed on single node cluster.

Maybe, through file shares ...

Any hints !?

 

[Guest]

As I am also working on some cluster questions myself I
wish to ask you something. How can a single node cluster
truely work? If the computer hangs there is no other node
to take over and essentially no redundancy. Just trying
to learn more on this myself so sorry I am not offering
help but just more questions!

 

[John Toner [MVP]]

You will still need a valid shared disk resource to have a functional
"single node" cluster. There's no way around this in Windows 2000.

Someone might want to build a single node cluster simply to give
applications the ability to restart. It's more hassle than it's worth, in my
opinion, as you could achieve the same results using the services.msc
applet.

Regards,
John