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Nick_Payne
Level 3
15 years ago

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 cl...
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  • Wally_Heim's avatar
    Wally_Heim
    15 years ago
    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
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Nick_Payne
Level 3
15 years ago
Actually, I found that the problem is that when the newly built node without SFW installed is added to the cluster, MSCS doesn't add the node as a possible owner of any of the Volume Manager Disk Group resources. It does add it as an owner of all the other resources.

After installing SFW and rebooting the node, you have to use Cluster Administrator to add the node as a owner of each Volume Manager Disk Group. After this failover to the newly built node works correctly.

There really needs to be a KB article on this.

Nick

ps. This was with SFW 5.1 SP1.