Recovering a Failed Quorum Disk

Recovering a Failed Quorum Disk

This section describes the procedure for recovering a failed quorum disk. The procedure requires the following:

•The quorum disk is designated for exclusive use by MSCS.

•The quorum disk resides in a drive array that is not a RAID.

•A spare disk, identical in type to the quorum disk, must be available to replace the failed disk. The spare disk must have at least as much total disk space as the quorum disk that is being replaced.

•The new quorum disk must be assigned the same drive letter as the failed disk.

For related information, refer to Microsoft Knowledge Base article Q280353,

How to Change Quorum Disk Designation.

How to Recover a Failed Quorum Disk

 

 

To recover a failed quorum disk:

 

 

1.

Close all instances of Microsoft Cluster Administrator.

 

 

2.

Stop the cluster service on both nodes.

 

 

3.

Using the Computer Management Services tool, access the Cluster Service

 

 

 

Properties dialog box and change the startup type to Manual on both

 

 

 

nodes.

 

 

4.

Power down both nodes and the drive array.

 

 

5.

Replace the failed quorum disk.

 

 

6.

Power up both nodes and the drive array.

 

 

7.

Format the new disk with the same partitioning scheme, disk format,

 

 

 

drive letter, and label as the failed quorum disk. Verify that the new disk

 

 

 

appears identical on both nodes.

 

 

8.

On one node, use the Computer Management Services facility to access the

 

 

 

Cluster Service Properties dialog box.

 

 

9.

Add -fixquorumas a start parameter and start the service.

 

 

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10.

Use the Cluster Administrator to rename the failed quorum resource to

 

 

RemoveMe.

 

 

11.

Create a new disk resource named:

 

 

 

Diskx

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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