Exchange 2003 cluster and physical disk

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Subject:Exchange 2003 cluster and physical disk
Posted by: Mike C (Mik…@discussions.microsoft.com)
Date:Tue, 25 Apr 2006

I have installed a 3 active / 1 passive node Exchange 2003 cluster.
Currently there are no users on it.  We have our physical disks configured on
a backend SAN.  Each active node has a physical disk resource for logs and a
second for the Stores.

Our SAN team has decided that they need to reconfigure the SAN for the log
partitions, decreasing the amount of physical space.  What do I have to do
from an Exchange / cluster perspective?

Using ESM, I have moved the logs and mailroot off of the partition, but I
then noticed that each partition has a folder containing the cluster
configuration files.  I didn't see a way to move the folder ( it is created
when the system attendant resource is created ), so I copied it and then took
the EVS offline.

What problems shou8ld I expect when the SAN work it finished?  I'm hoping
that the physical disk resource will still be seen, etc. and I will be able
to copy the cluster config files back to the disk if needed before I try and
bring everything on line.  If not, then I believe I can remove the system
attendant resource and then recreate it to bring in the configuration from
active directory.

Any input is appreciated.

Mike

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