The proposed plan is to create a new logical drive mb per MS KB solely for the quorum disk, then reassign the quorum disk in cluster administrator on both nodes. In cluster administrator, re-assigning the quorum disk seems straighforward based on Microsoft documentation.
Questions are: What order should the quorum disk be re-assigned on the nodes? When the quorum disk is re-assigned to the new drive - does the quorum get rebuilt automatically or does the data need to be migrated from the old drive?
When changing the quorum resource in cluster administrator, what complications if any would occur when making the change on the second node if the first node has already re-written the quorum data to the drive?
Join our community to see this answer! Unlock 1 Answer and 1 Comment. Andrew Hancock - VMware vExpert. Note: As soon as you click move group, Cluster manager start moving resources to NODE15 and you can see the change in status on right pane. Once you highlight the cluster group, on right pane you will see its resources list like cluster name,IP and Quorum disk. I have experience in Mysql server too.
Apart from Database, I have good knowledge in PowerShell, Web development Feel free to reach out to me at: support adsql. You must be logged in to post a comment. Right-click the cluster in the Cluster Administrator and choose Properties. Click the Quorum tab, then choose the quorum resource and set its properties as needed. Right-click the group and choose Properties.
Click the Failover tab. Click the Failback tab. If necessary, take the group offline. Right-click the group and choose Move Group. The group moves based on the order of preferred owners. Right-click the group and choose Rename. Take the resource offline, then right-click the resource and choose Delete. Right-click a resource and choose Take Offline or Bring Online.
Click the group in which the resource resides, then in the right pane, right-click the resource and choose Properties. Specify resource restart policy, polling, and pending timeout properties. Open the properties for the resource and click the Advanced tab.
Click the Active Resources branch where the resource is located. Advanced Configuration Options allow you to choose from between a Typical and an Advanced configuration. In almost all cases, the Typical configuration will work fine, and that is the option we use during this example. The Advanced configuration option is only needed for complex SAN configurations, and is beyond the scope of this article.
So click Cancel to return to the wizard, enter the correct physical node, if need be, and click Next. This next step is very important. What the Cluster Wizard does is to verify that everything is in place before it begins the actual installation of the cluster service on the node. As you can see above, the wizard goes through many steps, and if you did all of your preparation correctly, when the testing is done, you will see a green bar under Tasks completed, and you will be ready to proceed.
But if you have not done all the preliminary steps properly, you may see yellow or red icons next to one or more of the many tested steps, and a green or red bar under Tasks completed.
Ideally, you will want to see results similar to the figure above, with a green bar and no yellow icons next to the test steps. In some cases, you may see yellow warning icons next to one or more of the test steps, but still see a green bar at the bottom.
While the green bar does indicate that you can proceed, it does not mean the cluster will be completed successfully or will be configured like you want it to be completed. If you see any yellow warning icons, you can drill down into them and see exactly what the warning is.
Read each warning very carefully. If the warning is something unimportant to you, it can be ignored. But in most cases, the yellow warnings need to be addressed. This may mean you will have to abort the cluster service installation at this time to fix the problem. Then you can try to install it again. If you get any red warning icons next to any of the test steps, then you will also get a red bar at the bottom, which means that you have a major problem that needs to be corrected before you can proceed.
Drill down to see the message and act accordingly. Most likely, you will have to abort the installation, fix the issue, and then try installation again. The next step is to enter the IP address of our virtual cluster.
The IP address must be on the same subnet as all of the nodes in the cluster. Click Next. Next you enter the name of the domain account you want to use as the cluster service account. This account should have already been created in your domain and added to all of the cluster nodes in the Local Administrators Group.
But before you click Next, be sure to click on the Quorum button and check which drive the Cluster Wizard has selected for the Quorum. In this case Drive Q has been chosen, which is correct. Most of the time, the Cluster Wizard will select the correct drive for the Quorum, but not always.
This is why it is important to check to see if the correct drive was chosen. At this time, the Cluster Wizard will reanalyze the cluster, again looking for any potential problems. If none is found, click Next, and then click Finish to complete the installation of SQL Server clustering on the first node. Once you have installed the first node of your cluster, it is time to install the second node.
Like the first node, the second node is installed from Cluster Administrator. Because the cluster already exists, we are just adding the second node to the currently existing cluster.
You can install the second node from either the first node or the second node. To install the second node, turn it on it should have been off while you installed the first node and bring up Cluster Administrator. You will get the same window as you saw when you installed the first node. From here, select Add Nodes to Cluster. This brings up the Add Nodes Wizard, which is very similar to the previous New Server Cluster Wizard we just ran, except it has fewer options. As the wizard proceeds, you will enter the name of the physical node to add to the current cluster, after which a series of tests will be automatically run to verify that the node is ready to be clustered.
As before, if you run into any problems—yellow or red warnings—you should correct them first before continuing. Once all problems have been corrected, you are then asked to enter the password for the cluster service account to prove that you have permission to add a node to the cluster and the node is added to the cluster.
Once you have successfully installed the two nodes of your cluster, it is a good idea to view the nodes from Cluster Administrator. When you bring up Cluster Administrator for the first time after creating a cluster, you may have to tell it to Open a Connection to Cluster, and type in the name of the virtual cluster you just created. Once you have done this, the next time you open Cluster Administrator it will automatically open this cluster for you by default.
Notice that two resource groups have been created for you: Cluster Group and Group 0. These were all automatically created for you by the Cluster Wizard. We will talk more about Group 0 a little later. When you look next to each cluster resource, the State for each resource should be Online. If not, then your cluster may have a problem that needs to be fixed. As a quick troubleshooting technique, if any of the resources are not Online, right-click on the resource and choose Bring Online.
In some cases, this will bring the resource online and you will not experience any more problems. But if this does not work, then you need to begin troubleshooting your cluster. Also, next to each resource is listed the Owner of the resource. All the resources in a resource group will always have the same owner. Essentially, the owner is the physical node where the cluster resources are currently running. In the example above, the physical node they are running on is SQLA, which is the first node in my two-node cluster.
If a failover occurs, then all of the resources in the resource group will change to the other node in your cluster. Most likely, when you created the cluster, as above, you will see a resource group named Group 0.
This resource group was created when the cluster was created, and it most likely includes the shared resource for your SQL Server databases to use. See below. If you like, you can leave the resource group with this name, but it is not very informative.
You can do this by right-clicking on Group 0 and selecting Rename. If this is the case, then you will need to create a new resource group and then move the SQL Server shared disk array from the Cluster Group to the newly created SQL Server resource group. Once you have done this, you are ready for the next step. Once you have installed Windows clustering on your nodes, you need to thoroughly test the installation before beginning the SQL Server cluster install. Below are a series of tests you can perform to verify that your Windows cluster is working properly.
After you perform each test, verify if you get the expected results a successful failover. Also be sure to check the Windows event log files for any possible problems.
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