Removing Nodes From Clusters Running Windows Server 2003; Running Chkdsk /F On A Quorum Disk - Dell PowerEdge Cluster SE500W Installation And Troubleshooting Manual

Removing Nodes From Clusters Running Windows
Server 2003
1 Take all resource groups offline or move them to another cluster node.
2 Click the Start button, select Programs→ Administrative Tools, and then double-click
Cluster Administrator.
3 In Cluster Administrator, right-click the icon of the node you want to uninstall and then
select Stop Cluster Service.
4 In Cluster Administrator, right-click the icon of the node you want to uninstall and then
select Evict Node.
If you cannot evict the node and the node is the last node in the cluster:
Open a command prompt.
a
Type the following:
b
cluster node < node_name > /force
where <node_name> is the cluster node you are evicting from the cluster.
5 Close Cluster Administrator.

Running chkdsk /f on a Quorum Disk

You cannot run the chkdsk command with the /f (fix) option on a device that has an open file
handle active. Because MSCS maintains an open handle on the quorum resource, you cannot
run chkdsk /f on the hard drive that contains the quorum resource.
To run chkdsk /f on a quorum resource's hard drive:
1 Move the quorum resource temporarily to another drive:
Right-click the cluster name and select Properties.
a
Click the Quorum tab.
b
Select another disk as the quorum disk and press <Enter>.
c
2 Run chkdsk /f on the drive that previously stored the quorum resource.
3 Move the quorum disk back to the original drive.
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Maintaining Your Cluster