Hi,
I deployed a SQL Server 2014 on a 2 node cluster environment for one of the client. After deployment I verified everything is working fine except the automatic disk fail back.
OS: Windows Server 2012 R2
Environment: VMware v Sphere 5.5
Disks: C Drive for OS, E Drive for SQL Binaries Installation, L drive for Logs, P drive Database, T Drive for TempDB, Q Drive for Quorum, M Drive for MSDTC
Disk Type: C Drive, E Drive, Q Drive, M Drive are Just mounted as RAW disks. Only L Drive, P Drive, T Drive are CSVs
Issue1: Both Node1 & Node2 is Up and running fine, Node1 is preferred owner. MSDTC, SQL, Disks are failover to Node2 when Node1 is down. When Node1 up automatically failback (Except the CSVs)
If I bring Node 2 down Including disks everything failback to Node1 automatically.
If I manually move the disks from Node2 to Node1, able to move the disks successfully.
Also I can see disk dependency for MSDTC, but for SQL services No disks listed as dependencies.
Now my question is this the way the SQL Cluster works? Or do I missed something to make the disks as dependencies for SQL Server Service.
Issue 2: While Installing the SQL on Node1 while mentioning the path for DB, Logs, TempDB by default I got path like C:\Clusterstorage\Volume1,2,3 etc......When I explore I found one folder got created in C Drive with the name Clusterstorage and inside I can see the shortcuts for the disks (Volume1, volume2, volume3) only for CSVs.. But changed the path using the Local drive letter like P:\ L:\ T:\ etc....I mean in the installation wizard I changed the path from
"C:\ClusterStorage\Volume1" as L Drive used for Logs
"C:\ClusterStorage\Volume2" as P Drive used for Database
"C:\ClusterStorage\Volume3" as T Drive used for TempDB
Is it fine if I use the drive letters like this?
Thanks in advance for helping
Best Regards
Krishna
Thanks & Regards Krishnakumar B