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SqlZ
Yak Posting Veteran
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 Posted - 2003-08-21 : 12:32:26
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| MS recommends the Quorum drive to be a separate physical drive and I think its a real waste of disk space to have something that is a few hundred KB taking up a 36GB drive in my raid array. My question is, will I be sorry for making a 500MB partition on my log drive F: (raid 1) named Q for the quorum? I just want to make sure I don't screw the cluster up since its the first time I am setting one up. Thanks in advance! |
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tkizer
Almighty SQL Goddess
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Posted - 2003-08-21 : 12:49:38
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| We used a separate drive for the Quorum drive and did not use a partition for it. If it is recommended to use a separate drive, then should go with the suggestion. You'll be sorry when things start screwing up due to not going with the recommendation.Tara |
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MichaelP
Jedi Yak
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Posted - 2003-08-21 : 13:02:41
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| I think it is wise to keep the Quorum drive a separate drive. MS reccomends it (and for clustering, their advice should really be taken) and I think you'll want it separate anyway. If you have that quorum on a "shared" drive, then you will run into problems when you need to move clustered resources methinks. Also, if the drive is question is shared, it will be used more and tend to fail more. I think it's not good when your quorum drive fails.Keep it separate!Michael<Yoda>Use the Search page you must. Find the answer you will.</Yoda> |
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SqlZ
Yak Posting Veteran
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Posted - 2003-08-26 : 11:08:13
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| Thanks for the suggestions. I made a separate RAID 1 for my quorum drive and all is well thus far.Thanks again. |
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chadmat
The Chadinator
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Posted - 2003-08-26 : 19:15:44
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| Good choice.http://www.clrsoft.comSoftware built for the Common Language Runtime. |
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