Nick_Payne
15 years agoLevel 3
Rebuilding MSCS cluster node
I found a KB document detailing the steps needed to rebuild a cluster node when using SFW HA for Windows, but I need to rebuild a Win2003 cluster node that is running SFW 5.0 with MSCS. If it was a cluster that wasn't using SFW, I would just evict the node from the cluster, rebuild the OS on it, and add it back to the cluster. What is the correct procedure for SFW with MSCS? The cluster quorum is a volume manager disk resource, so I can't add the node back to the cluster before installing SFW with the MSCS option, which is the usual installation order when creating a new cluster from scratch. Is the rebuild procedure:
1. Evict the node
2. Install Win2003 on node
3. Install SFW with MSCS option
4. Add node to cluster
1. Evict the node
2. Install Win2003 on node
3. Install SFW with MSCS option
4. Add node to cluster
- Hi Nick,
The MSCS option will not install until the node is part of a MCSC cluster. Once you evict the node you need to follow the same steps that do when adding a node to the cluster.
You can add the node into the cluster even with the quorum being dynamic. The quorum will be running on a node that is still in the cluster with SFW on it.
Here are the basic steps that you need to do
1. Evict the node
2. Install Win2003 on node
3. Add node to cluster
4. Install SFW with MSCS option
5. Reinstall any clustered applications as needed.
Thanks,
Wally