VCS clustered disks not appearing in selections

[Hywel_Mallett]

I'm currently performing disaster recovery testing for our system.
The disaster recovery system consists of a domain controller/BE media server. This can be restored fine.
There are 2 Veritas Cluster Server nodes as part of the DR tests. As our budget won't stretch to a second SAN, we are using local storage on the DR servers.
We can restore the operating system of the cluster nodes.
We then create additional drives on the servers local storage.
When trying to browse to this local storage for an alternate restore location, it does not appear in the selection. Similarly, it does not appear in the backup selection browse list.
Looking in to beremote logs shows the following errors:

Error getting clustered disks mounted by Windows Disk Mgr
R: not owned
S: not owned
T: not owned
U: not owned
V: not owned
W: not owned
X: not owned
Y: not owned
Z: not owned
Enumerating local drives
Skipping clustered disk T:
Skipping clustered disk U:
Skipping clustered disk V:
Skipping clustered disk W:
Skipping clustered disk X:
Skipping clustered disk Y:

If I stop VCS, then the disks appear in the selection lists.
I'd like to know:
If we're doing something wrong
If there are any negative implications of this
If there's a way of getting BE to see the disks without stopping VCS
Whether there's a better way we should be doing this.

Thanks
Hywel

[Shilpa_pawar_2]

Hi,


Do either of the local disks drives on the cluster nodes have any mount points setup?

As a test can you use NTBackup to see if it can see the drive on the nodes? Is it a active-passive configuration or active-active?

Is SQL also invloved in clustering?

What type of disk management are you using?

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