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When I failover a clustered file server, the passive node continues to

show the shared resources, but no drive information (i.e. space usage,

etc.) and you cannot connect to it (obviously). A reboot cleans it

up, but is there a fix for this? It's starting to cause issues w/ our

server monitoring software seeing these drive letters that don't

actually have drives attached to them.

 

Thanks in advance.

 

(Win 2k3 SP1)

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Re: Phantom drives on passive node?

 

Hello,

 

I think you are stuck:

Managing Disk Ownership in a Windows Server 2003 Cluster

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/818878/en-us

 

The second and third behaviors in this list are different from the behaviors

of Windows 2000-based clusters, where Disk Management automatically removes

from the display disks that the cluster node does not own.

 

 

 

 

--

Cordialement,

Mathieu CHATEAU

http://lordoftheping.blogspot.com

 

 

"John" <roundsjr@gmail.com> wrote in message

news:1187973197.933229.186300@q5g2000prf.googlegroups.com...

> When I failover a clustered file server, the passive node continues to

> show the shared resources, but no drive information (i.e. space usage,

> etc.) and you cannot connect to it (obviously). A reboot cleans it

> up, but is there a fix for this? It's starting to cause issues w/ our

> server monitoring software seeing these drive letters that don't

> actually have drives attached to them.

>

> Thanks in advance.

>

> (Win 2k3 SP1)

>

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Re: Phantom drives on passive node?

 

On Aug 24, 12:56 pm, "Mathieu CHATEAU" <gollum...@free.fr> wrote:

> Hello,

>

> I think you are stuck:

> Managing Disk Ownership in a Windows Server 2003 Clusterhttp://support.microsoft.com/kb/818878/en-us

>

> The second and third behaviors in this list are different from the behaviors

> of Windows 2000-based clusters, where Disk Management automatically removes

> from the display disks that the cluster node does not own.

>

> --

> Cordialement,

> Mathieu CHATEAUhttp://lordoftheping.blogspot.com

>

> "John" <round...@gmail.com> wrote in message

>

> news:1187973197.933229.186300@q5g2000prf.googlegroups.com...

>

>

>

> > When I failover a clustered file server, the passive node continues to

> > show the shared resources, but no drive information (i.e. space usage,

> > etc.) and you cannot connect to it (obviously). A reboot cleans it

> > up, but is there a fix for this? It's starting to cause issues w/ our

> > server monitoring software seeing these drive letters that don't

> > actually have drives attached to them.

>

> > Thanks in advance.

>

> > (Win 2k3 SP1)- Hide quoted text -

>

> - Show quoted text -

 

But we are seeing the disks in explorer with no info. When we open My

Computer on the passive node, the disks are there, but "device is not

ready". Once we reboot, the disks are gone. This article applies to

Disk Manager. Should we also see these drives in explorer as well on

the passive node?

Guest Mathieu CHATEAU
Posted

Re: Phantom drives on passive node?

 

Hello,

 

if you reboot the passive node, the disk will appears in the diskmgmt.msc

with red cross.

 

Drive letter only appears in the explorer on passive node if it was active

once since the reboot, as far as i can remember.

 

 

--

Cordialement,

Mathieu CHATEAU

http://lordoftheping.blogspot.com

 

 

"John" <roundsjr@gmail.com> wrote in message

news:1187990444.397995.231300@z24g2000prh.googlegroups.com...

> On Aug 24, 12:56 pm, "Mathieu CHATEAU" <gollum...@free.fr> wrote:

>> Hello,

>>

>> I think you are stuck:

>> Managing Disk Ownership in a Windows Server 2003

>> Clusterhttp://support.microsoft.com/kb/818878/en-us

>>

>> The second and third behaviors in this list are different from the

>> behaviors

>> of Windows 2000-based clusters, where Disk Management automatically

>> removes

>> from the display disks that the cluster node does not own.

>>

>> --

>> Cordialement,

>> Mathieu CHATEAUhttp://lordoftheping.blogspot.com

>>

>> "John" <round...@gmail.com> wrote in message

>>

>> news:1187973197.933229.186300@q5g2000prf.googlegroups.com...

>>

>>

>>

>> > When I failover a clustered file server, the passive node continues to

>> > show the shared resources, but no drive information (i.e. space usage,

>> > etc.) and you cannot connect to it (obviously). A reboot cleans it

>> > up, but is there a fix for this? It's starting to cause issues w/ our

>> > server monitoring software seeing these drive letters that don't

>> > actually have drives attached to them.

>>

>> > Thanks in advance.

>>

>> > (Win 2k3 SP1)- Hide quoted text -

>>

>> - Show quoted text -

>

> But we are seeing the disks in explorer with no info. When we open My

> Computer on the passive node, the disks are there, but "device is not

> ready". Once we reboot, the disks are gone. This article applies to

> Disk Manager. Should we also see these drives in explorer as well on

> the passive node?

>


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