Hi. I'm trying to create a Windows 2003 cluster within virtual machines across 2 physical vSphere 4 (update 1) hosts. My setup:
DataOntap 7.3.2
Windows 2003 Enterprise R2 SP2
Snapdrive 6.2
FC connectivity between the ESX hosts and filer
I am able to create the shared quorum disk resource via Snapdrive on the first Windows node. The trouble starts when I follow the Snapdrive 6.2 documentation to "connect" the shared disk resource (quorum) to the second Windows node - before I can add this second node to the Windows cluster.
I step through the Snapdrive wizard for connecting to the shared lun and it kicks off the process. The first odd thing is that although I have several igroups already created on the filer, Snapdrive does not pick up any of them. I'm forced to use "Automatic" igroup mapping (i.e. Snapdrive creates the mapping). After about 30 seconds I get an error that states:
Failed to create disk in virtual machine, Failed to Map virtual disk: File [PROD5_YYC] SYYC1CMVRMX101/SYYC1CMVRMX101_SD_xxxxxx-xx.ca.corp.xxxx.com_P3KgWJW9X5Bm_0.vmdk is larger than the maximum size supported by datastore 'PROD5_YYC.
Needless to say, the second node cannot be added to the cluster until this is resolved. The odd thing is that I can see that the ESX server that hosts the second node has it's FC initiator mapped to the shared lun (visible via Filerview - luns - manage). Another oddity is that if I do a rescan of the storage adapters of the ESX server that hosts the second node I can see the lun show up but it is listed as 0bytes.
Any help is appreciated.