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What was the error that occurred?
Regards,
John
"Joe" <Joe@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:B128EE13-1EBC-417A-9552-280B9525829C@microsoft.com...
> HI,
>
> Diskpart didnt work for me and I dont know why. I have the free space at
> the end of the drive I wish to extend and I powered off one node then took
> the Group I wanted to work with offline and brought only its disk back
online
> and no luck. What am I missing? I have three disk groups on the cluster.
> Quorum, SQL Virtual Server, and a 3rd Party App. Each have their own
IP's,
> Names and Drives. I am trying to extend the drive on the 3rd party app
> group. I even ran handles.exe and saw no open handles. I am using HP
> hardware. Do I need to disable any services? I have multipath 2.0, HP
diag
> stuff and cluster service. I would assume that I shouldnt stop the
cluster
> service. I tried stopping all the HP and compaq services and it still
didnt
> work. Multipath was stopped as well and no go. I am desperate now.
Please
> does anyone have any advice?
>
> Thanks
>
> "Joe" wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the info,
> >
> > I am not extending the Quorum drive. I am not extending a System Drive
> > either. Simply one of my Logical drives that contains financial data.
I
> > apreciate your input and I will see what happens.
> >
> > Thanks again.
> >
> >
> > "John Toner [MVP]" wrote:
> >
> > > Joe,
> > >
> > > You should not take the quorum disk offline. You should not have the
MSDTC
> > > online while you're extending this disk...assuming your MSDTC resource
is
> > > using the quorum disk for storage. If not, then it is irrevelant. You
really
> > > shouldn't need to extend the quorum drive, but if you do need to
extend the
> > > disk where the quorum resides, uses MSCS to move the quorum log to a
> > > different disk while you extend the quorum's old drive. The key is
that you
> > > do not want any open "handles" on the disk while you're extending the
file
> > > system.
> > >
> > > You should only extend one disk at a time, so you shouldn't need to
take all
> > > resources offline. Only take the resources in that disk's group
offline and
> > > that should kill most of the handles on the disk. You might consider
using
> > > the handle.exe tool from www.sysinternals.com as well to verify there
are no
> > > handles on the disk when you extend.
> > >
> > > I have used diskpart and 95% of the time (with W2K SP4 or 2003) it
works
> > > great. Even if you're one of the unlucky 5%, you will NOT lose data by
> > > extending the file system. You may not have access to the extra
freespace,
> > > but you will not lose data. In the situations where I've seen diskpart
fail
> > > to extend the filesystem (even though disk manager thinks it did),
Microsoft
> > > can help you fix the issue as they have a utility to correct this.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > John
> > >
> > > "Joe" <Joe@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > > news:0A03FB16-AB49-45B0-921C-418158221DFD@microsoft.com...
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I am looking to extend a volume using Diskpart. Two Windows 2K Adv
Server
> > > > nodes attached via SCSI to HP Smart Array Storage box using. Each
Server
> > > has
> > > > redundant SCSI connections using Multipath 2.0 software. There are
7
> > > > volumes, all Basic Disks. I have already configured my new drives
and
> > > added
> > > > the free space using the HP ACU software. I see the 427GB of free
space
> > > at
> > > > the end of the particular Volume that I wish to extend. The Volume
is
> > > > currently 300GB and the data is backed up. I know that I am
supposed to
> > > > power down one node and then take all Resources offline then bring
only
> > > the
> > > > disks online, what about the Quorum drive and its MSDTC resource?
Should
> > > the
> > > > Quorum drive alone be brought back online or the MSDTC as well.
Then,
> > > when I
> > > > run Diskpart and tell it to extend the drive will it really work,
meaning
> > > > will I not lose any data? Has anyone else done this that can give
me some
> > > > feedback?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks very much!
> > >
> > >
> > >
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