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dsccommunity / FailoverClusterDsc

This module contains DSC resources for deployment and configuration of Windows Server Failover Cluster.
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xClusterDisk: Issue when adding a disk to the cluster where drive letter changes #199

Closed kungfoome closed 5 years ago

kungfoome commented 5 years ago

This is more of a Windows bug and not really a bug with this Resource, but posting this issue for future reference in case someone else has the same issue.

Current setup: 3 iSCSI drives with a windows cluster.

I configure the drives using the Disk resource. The issue comes when I add the drives to the cluster. The other two drives are ok and maintain the drive letter fine. The second disk does not. I tried to do this manually and it seems to be an issue with windows. I tried restarting and running through it again, but it's like the Drive loses the drive letter and it gets stuck and Windows can't take over that drive letter again, so it assigns it the next drive letter. I had to change the drive letter to something else for it work properly.

This was consistent in that I destroyed the storage and servers multiple times and got the same result. I didn't explore further as my workaround was to simply change the drive letter.

The only other way to possibly get around this, is to initialize the disk and then assign it a drive letter after it's added to the cluster, but Disk doesn't currently support this yet.

kungfoome commented 5 years ago

Closing as there is a workaround and it's more of a windows bug