Adding Spindals on Cluster to SAN

How much work is it to add spindals to a drive on a
Windows 2000 Advanced Server clustered on a SAN?
Thank You,
Dave
You will need Veritas volume manager to expand the logical drive at the OS
level under Windows 2000. What happens at the SAN level depends on your SAN
vendor.
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"Dave" <anonymous@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> How much work is it to add spindals to a drive on a
> Windows 2000 Advanced Server clustered on a SAN?
> Thank You,
> Dave
|||Dave -
Because we don't use Veritas we generally just add another drive to the
cluster, and make sure that the new drive does not share any spindals with
the old drive on the SAN. Then we just balance our data files.
Craig
ccarl@.mcafee.com
"Dave" <anonymous@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> How much work is it to add spindals to a drive on a
> Windows 2000 Advanced Server clustered on a SAN?
> Thank You,
> Dave
|||If you wish to add physical disks to the same volume presented to your nodes in the cluster, assuming your SAN vendor supports it:
1. Add the new disks to the disk pool
2. Use diskpart (from the W2K resource kit - it comes with the o/s in W2K3) to "list volume" then "select volume" x and then "extend" the partition.
Note1: You must use diskpart 5.1 or newer (some of the earlier versions are dodgy)
Note2: This is an on-line operation and causes no disruption to current SQL operations.