Cluster error

[Schoolies]

My setup has been working for about a 6 months now and I recently ran into some problems after I disabled the network adapter on node 1.

Now, it failed over to node 2 but when it tries to fail over to node 1, I get this error message in event viewer and node 2 still is the active server:

Event ID: 1068
Computer: Node-2

Cluster file share resource VOL1 failed to start with error 2116.



I looked around and some people say that it is because I have the drive letter already assigned on the node 1 but the 2 drive letters that should be mapped are not on the server... at least not in My Computer and not seen when I view net use.

I have powered down both servers and the shared scsi array.

I've scowered google for help but nothing good has come of it.

Thanks!

 

[dphantom]

Why did you disable the nic on the first node? I assume you have re-enabled it??

Cluster requires one nic configured between the 2 servers to control the heartbeat. This connects the two servers so they can communicate with each other.

Second NIC attaches to your infrastructure. Is node 1 on the cluster up or is there a red X thru it?

 

[Schoolies]

I'm sorry, I re-enabled the network card - I was doing this to test the failover status late one night.

 

[Schoolies]

There is no problem with the public and heartbeat connections, they see each other and in Cluster Admin both nodes appear without problems - Just can't seem to get the resources to jump to node 1 anymore...

 

[dphantom]

Did you create the shares on the cluster using Windows Explorer or cluadmin? If the former, you may need to delete the share and recreate using cluadmin.

 

[Schoolies]

it was created using cluadmin... thank you for your response, i will not be able to get back to this problem until sunday- but please if you have any more suggestions let me know!

thanks again.