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SFW HA SQL patching process

SFW HA SQL patching process. we have implemented GCO with 2 node cluster on primary. and single node at DR site. we want to do windows and SQL patches updates . what would be the process,  starting node should be passive node or active node. how ...

Jomy by Level 5
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Resolved! windows volume manger DG creation issue

I am trying to create a disk group on windows 2008 and when I try to create, it was throwing the error like  below   " No Space for private region on disk"   I shrink the volume by 3 meg  and I  try to create and got same error.   Do I need upd...

mokkan by Level 6
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Resolved! How to prevent split brain issue in GCO

How to prevent split brain issue in GCO.   we have configured 2 cluster in primary and single node cluster in secondary. It is working fine but. when ever there is a link issue.Both the sites are going in active state and volumes are mounting on ...

Jomy by Level 5
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Resolved! Tricky Volume Group cration question

Hello,   We would like to have  2 RDM attached to a VM. Is it possible to keep same volume group name ? The reason why I'm asking is that.  SAN team will do the frame base copy time to time from RDM1 to RDM2 so I can't have different volume group n...

mokkan by Level 6
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Resolved! Adding a single disk to a DG

Hello, We need to bring a disk to veritas volume manger, but disk has data on it. Is it possible to bring inside  veritas volume manager? I am afraid that it will delete the data from the disk. Am I right? OS : Windows 2008  R2  

mokkan by Level 6
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Resolved! Improving disk mirroring

Hi Need some advice improving disk mirroring using SFW. According to the documentation you use “Configuration task performance tuning” for migrations only. Can it be used to improve day to disk mirroring? We already disabled Task Throttling and en...

Resolved! File System Strink on Windows

Hello, We have windows system and it the first VG, we have  3 volumes and once is for C drive, other one for E drive and other one for Swap.  Can we strink E drive and add more space to C drive? Would it cause any problem? This is my plan. 1. Unmo...

mokkan by Level 6
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Resolved! disk doesn't show up

Hi Team,   With regards to above change was implemented last week end, Change of the ports (Removing the old ports, adding the new one).   SAN end the new ports has been added & old one removed, after this some of the Disks were failed the after ...

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Resolved! Cluster dynamic disk group in VirtualBox

Has anyone being able to get cluster dynamic disk groups working in VirtualBox.  I have SFWHA 5.1 installed on W2003 and I can create a normal dynamic disk group, but I cannot create a cluster dynamic disk group on a fixed size shared disk - I get er...

mikebounds by Level 6
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Resolved! Windows File System Increase

Hello, In Unix and Linux after we extended the Volume on Diskgroup, we need to resize the filesystem.  How about in Windows, after we increase the volume, do we need to resize the file system? If so, how do we do it? Thanks in advance.  

mokkan by Level 6
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Resolved! Blue Disk Icon in SFWHA against disk

I would like to know whether the blue information icon that I am seeing on the passive node of a sfwha cluster will clear when a failover is initiated. The issue has arisen following a recent disk expansion which all went well apart from the odd iss...

slick1 by Level 2
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