Adding a disk to a Windows 2008 Failover Cluster using cluster.exe commands

re: Adding a disk to a Windows 2008 Failover Cluster using cluster.exe commands

John Toner — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:30:23 GMT

The DiskVolumeInfo and DiskUniqueIds values would only be populated once the resource comes online. If the disk resource doesn't go online, these fields wouldn't get populated.

Your disk's private properties show a DiskSignature value...was this something you added? If so, the cluster will use the signature value first before looking at the DiskPath setting. If you enter the wrong signature, you'd need to adjust this.

I'd recommend deleting this resource and try adding it again, and only specify the DiskPath value to see if this works.

If you're still having issues, I'd recommend bringing this conversation to the Cluster forums to continue this discussion:

social.technet.microsoft.com/.../threads

re: Adding a disk to a Windows 2008 Failover Cluster using cluster.exe commands

David Ell — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:40:48 GMT

Hi John,

I followed the steps above but when I run the command to modify the DiskPath it does not populate the DiskVolumeInfo or DiskUniqueIds properties and therefore will not come online.

Here is the output:

C:\Windows\system32>cluster res "DiskS" /priv

Listing private properties for 'DiskS':

T Resource Name Value

-- -------------------- ------------------------------ -----------------------

D DiskS DiskIdType 0 (0x0)

D DiskS DiskSignature 547616101 (0x20a3f565)

S DiskS DiskIdGuid

D DiskS DiskRunChkDsk 0 (0x0)

B DiskS DiskUniqueIds ... (0 bytes)

B DiskS DiskVolumeInfo ... (0 bytes)

D DiskS DiskArbInterval 3 (0x3)

S DiskS DiskPath S:

D DiskS DiskReload 0 (0x0)

D DiskS MaintenanceMode 0 (0x0)

D DiskS MaxIoLatency 1000 (0x3e8)

Any ideas?

Regards,

Dave

re: Adding a disk to a Windows 2008 Failover Cluster using cluster.exe commands

Rob — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:42:57 GMT

re: Adding a disk to a Windows 2008 Failover Cluster using cluster.exe commands

John Toner — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 18:04:35 GMT

I'd recommend that we discuss this further on the Cluster support forum here:

social.technet.microsoft.com/.../threads

I would ask that you provide the 'cluster res "Disk x:" /priv' output along with the error message that you are receiving. You should also run a "cluster log /g" command and review the ERR messages in the c:\windows\cluster\reports\cluster.log file.

re: Adding a disk to a Windows 2008 Failover Cluster using cluster.exe commands

Mustapha — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:51:35 GMT

Hello,

When I try to bing my disks online in the cluster GUI or by using cluster.exe command:

cluster res "Disk X:" /on

I get an error and disks are still offline.

Any help please ?

Thanks

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re: Adding a disk to a Windows 2008 Failover Cluster using cluster.exe commands

John Toner — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:14:40 GMT

Just bring it online in the cluster GUI. Alternatively, you could also bring it online using cluster.exe command:

cluster res "Disk X:" /on

re: Adding a disk to a Windows 2008 Failover Cluster using cluster.exe commands

shahbaz ali — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 09:21:58 GMT

Dear I have added the hard disks in my cluster using above commands . I can see them off line now in cluster. Any idea how to make them online.

Regards,

Shahbaz Ali

shahbaz.ali@netsolpk.com

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