Windows 2003 Phantom drives on passive node?

  • Thread starter Thread starter John
  • Start date Start date
J

John

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)
 
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)
>
 
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?
 
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?
>
 
Back
Top