Thanks Richard, we already converted one of the servers successfully to a vm, what we did was take the physical box which was using a shared DAS, and converted one box and one of the shared disks but theres a third shared disk that we had to copy (its file shares) so when I goto switch it out I get the cluster signature error.
Doing any cluster tools gets me an error because there is only one server left and so Im wondering if I evict the now gone server, and just be left with 1 server in a cluster what would happen… Going to snapshot the disk tonight and try it … From: Richard Stovall [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 11:40 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: MSCS evicting node My only thought is based on an experience a few years ago moving some clustered services to a single VM. The P2V went fine and I was left with a one node cluster as you intend. The only problem I encountered was when doing snapshot-based image backups using VCB. The creation of a snapshot caused the cluster to lose its SCSI reservations on the virtual disks. At that point they would all drop offline and blow the whole thing up. I wasn't willing to give up live, snapshot-based backups, so I went through the process of recreating everything from scratch on a fresh VM. I don't know if you'll run into this issue, but it may be something look out for. On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 11:13 PM, Level 5 Lists <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I have a client who is downsizing and migrating from two physical MSCS 2003 servers to one vm. Rebuilding the apps is not possible and the conversion has already occurred but we removed both physical servers leaving one working vm ‘active’ and one ‘passive’ non-working vm. I cannot make any changes to the cluster without evicting this node apparently so I will end up with 1 node in the cluster. In reading around it looks like you can create one node clusters and seems viable I could evict this ‘missing’ server without issue but thought I would run by the group for any caveats.. This is primarily an SQL cluster with a couple of shares mounted on the disk that the SQL box relies on … TY ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
