How to move quorum disk to other node in Win2008 cluster

I just create a Windows 2008 cluster with two nodes running SQL 2008. I
notice that the SQL database and DTC services are in the cluster service
class and, therefore, the can be failover to other node manually. However,
quorum disk is not of this class and is there any way I can move it to other
node. Since we may need to manually move the cluster from one node to
another, I just wonder how to move the quorum disk.

If I shut down the active node, everything, including the quorum disk, will
failover to the passive node.

Regards,

Joseph

You can do this thru the command line by issuing the following command:

cluster group "Cluster Group" /move


Regards,
John

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"Joseph Liu" <> wrote in message
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> I just create a Windows 2008 cluster with two nodes running SQL 2008. I
> notice that the SQL database and DTC services are in the cluster service
> class and, therefore, the can be failover to other node manually. However,
> quorum disk is not of this class and is there any way I can move it to
other
> node. Since we may need to manually move the cluster from one node to
> another, I just wonder how to move the quorum disk.
>
> If I shut down the active node, everything, including the quorum disk,
will
> failover to the passive node.
>
> Regards,
>
> Joseph
>
>

John,

I run command

cluster group /status

Listing status for all available resource groups:

Group Node Status
-------------------- --------------- ------
SQL Server (SQL2) TCO-SQLX Online
SQL8ClusterDTC2 TCO-SQLX Online
???? TCO-SQLX Online
?????? TCO-SQLX Online

It shows 4 cluster groups to me as above and none of it relates to the
quorum disk. I think the quorum disk is not a service or an application, it
is just a disk resource.

Is it necessary to create a cluster group that is used to hold the quorum
disk? If so, how?

Regards,

Joseph

"John Toner [MVP]" wrote:

> You can do this thru the command line by issuing the following command:
>
> cluster group "Cluster Group" /move
>
>
> Regards,
> John
>
> Visit my blog: http://msmvps.com/blogs/jtoner
>
> "Joseph Liu" <> wrote in message
> news67F78EC-B370-4EC1-BE06-...
> > I just create a Windows 2008 cluster with two nodes running SQL 2008. I
> > notice that the SQL database and DTC services are in the cluster service
> > class and, therefore, the can be failover to other node manually. However,
> > quorum disk is not of this class and is there any way I can move it to
> other
> > node. Since we may need to manually move the cluster from one node to
> > another, I just wonder how to move the quorum disk.
> >
> > If I shut down the active node, everything, including the quorum disk,
> will
> > failover to the passive node.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Joseph
> >
> >
>
>
>

You stated previously that this was a 2008 cluster. Windows 2008 creates 2
"hidden" groups by default, the "Cluster Group" and the "Available Storage"
groups. The disk that is designated as the "Witness Disk" will be moved to
the "Cluster Group".

If you look in the Failover Cluster Administrator GUI, under storage it
should list the "Witness Disk in XXX" where XXX is the name of the group
that contains the Witness Disk. You can then use the cluster.exe command I
provided to move the XXX cluster group.

Regards,
John

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"Joseph Liu" <> wrote in message
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> John,
>
> I run command
>
> cluster group /status
>
> Listing status for all available resource groups:
>
> Group Node Status
> -------------------- --------------- ------
> SQL Server (SQL2) TCO-SQLX Online
> SQL8ClusterDTC2 TCO-SQLX Online
> ???? TCO-SQLX Online
> ?????? TCO-SQLX Online
>
> It shows 4 cluster groups to me as above and none of it relates to the
> quorum disk. I think the quorum disk is not a service or an application,
it
> is just a disk resource.
>
> Is it necessary to create a cluster group that is used to hold the quorum
> disk? If so, how?
>
> Regards,
>
> Joseph
>
> "John Toner [MVP]" wrote:
>
> > You can do this thru the command line by issuing the following command:
> >
> > cluster group "Cluster Group" /move
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > John
> >
> > Visit my blog: http://msmvps.com/blogs/jtoner
> >
> > "Joseph Liu" <> wrote in message
> > news67F78EC-B370-4EC1-BE06-...
> > > I just create a Windows 2008 cluster with two nodes running SQL 2008.
I
> > > notice that the SQL database and DTC services are in the cluster
service
> > > class and, therefore, the can be failover to other node manually.
However,
> > > quorum disk is not of this class and is there any way I can move it to
> > other
> > > node. Since we may need to manually move the cluster from one node to
> > > another, I just wonder how to move the quorum disk.
> > >
> > > If I shut down the active node, everything, including the quorum disk,
> > will
> > > failover to the passive node.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Joseph
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >