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Dean
Asked: 2012-05-06 09:43:28 +0800 CST

Windows Server 2003 on Virtualbox: Disk becomes unavailible after adding it as a cluster resource

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I created a test cluster in Windows 2003 running on Virtual Box. The virtual disk to be used as a cluster resource has been changed to type shereable using VBoxManage command line utility. On that disk I created a primary partition and mounted it on one server as drive D. The cluster has been created successfully using Majority Node Set for quorum.

When adding drive D as a resource it failes and becomes unavailible in explorer, removing the disk from the resources makes it availible again.

To eliminate the Shereable vdi disk as the cause I created a new virtual disk on a new virtual SCSI controller, which does not have Shereable for it's Type. Still when added as a cluster resource it fails and becomes unavailible.

windows-server-2003 virtualbox cluster

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    Last I checked, VirtualBox virtual disks are not supported for Cluster Services. You should use a third VM to present this disk as iSCSI rather than as a shared vdisk.

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