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Marios Philippopoulos

Posted Saturday, July 31, 2010 3:57 AM

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We are getting the following error during SQL-2008 installation on a cluster node (active node) in an active-active-passive cluster configuration. We are using mount points in our implementation to increase the number of individual volumes that will host the database files. This occurs in the Cluster Disk Selection phase:

The mount point disk volume '\\?\Volume{fdba841d-9c06-11df-b213-0017a4770490}\' mounted at 'I:\$RECYCLE.BIN\S-1-5-21-1214440339-854245398-1801674531-11362\$RXP8E68\' is not a clustered resource.To continue, add the resource to the cluster, or remove the mount point to cluster the shared disk.

Anyone have any ideas how to resolve this?

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Jeffrey Williams 3188

Posted Saturday, July 31, 2010 9:44 AM

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I am not sure about the reference to the recycle bin in the error - that seems a bit suspicious.

Is the I:\ drive a cluster resource? Is the mount point setup as a clustered resource and available to all nodes in the cluster?

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Posted Saturday, July 31, 2010 9:53 AM

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Jeffrey Williams-493691 (7/31/2010)

Yes, I think the answer is yes to both questions. I didn't set it up myself, it was set up by our system administrator and SAN specialist. Is there any test I can run - perhaps using the Failover Cluster Manager tool - to confirm this?

Thank you for any hints on this, I'm new to the cluster implementation.

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Jeffrey Williams 3188

Posted Saturday, July 31, 2010 10:40 AM

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You can validate it yourself with minimal effort - RDP to the server and use the cluster administrator console (is this windows 2008 also, or 2003?). The administration of clusters had changed in windows 2008 and I'm not familiar with it yet.

What you want to do is validate that the drive has been added to the same resource group as SQL Server and that SQL Server is dependent upon that drive.

As for validating that the mount point is added to all nodes - you need to follow up with the SAN guys on that.

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JohnnyDBA

Posted Tuesday, December 20, 2011 8:22 AM

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Just FYI, I was experiencing the same error along with another error in this post that seem to be correlated. I posted the solution there.

Long story short, we ended up having to format the drive that housed the mount points then recreate them and that cleared up the issue.

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Perry Whittle

Posted Tuesday, December 20, 2011 11:02 AM

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as already mentioned, see my article at this link for more info on setting up and using mount points for SQL Server

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Posted Tuesday, January 03, 2012 8:19 AM

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Just check that the drive you are selecting for install should be in cluster and should not have any dependencies.

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