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4.4.10 Configuring Shared Disks
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Create a small partition. Use a minimum of 50 Mbytes as a quorum
disk. Windows 2000 generally recommends a quorum disk to be 500
Mbytes.
Dedicate a separate disk for a quorum resource. The failure of the
quorum disk would cause the entire cluster to fail; therefore,
Windows 2000 strongly recommends that you use a volume on a
RAID disk array.
During the Cluster Service installation, you must provide the drive letter
for the quorum disk. For our example, we use the letter E.
To configure the shared disks:
1. Right-click on My Computer.
2. Click on Manage, then click on Storage.
3. Double-click on Disk Management.
4. Ensure that all shared disks are formatted as NTFS and are
designated as Basic. If you connect a new drive, the Write Signature
and Upgrade Disk Wizard starts automatically.
If this occurs, click on Next to go through the wizard. The wizard sets
the disk to dynamic, but you can uncheck it at this point to set it to
basic.
To reset the disk to Basic, right-click on Disk # (where # identifies
the disk that you are working with) and click on Revert to Basic
Disk.
5. Right-click on unallocated disk space.
6. Click on Create Partition... .
The Create Partition Wizard begins.
7. Click on Next twice.
8. Enter the desired partition size in Mbytes, and click on Next.
9. Accept the default drive letter assignment by clicking on Next.
10. Click on Next to format and create a partition.
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