Hi,
We have set up a SQL 2012 cluster (multi-node) on a Windows Server 2012 cluster. We realized that the NTFS partitions were formatted with a 4 KB allocation unit size instead of 64 KB.
So we took the SQL instances offline and *copied* instead of moved the SQL database files. This of course removed the NTFS permissions.
When we moved the SQL datatabase files back of course the instances wouldn't start. Now, we can manually assign the correct permissions, but there are three nodes and then a number of volume mount points which makes this process complicated.
We tried running a SQL Server repair, but that doesn't seem to fix the NTFS permissions.
On a related node, we're not able to assign permissions to 'NT SERVICES\MSSQL$INSTANCENAME' because the group cannot be found. We can assign them to the actual SQL Server instance accounts.
Is there a tool, or switch with the repair installation, that will fix NTFS permissions?
Thanks in advance,
SA.