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Preparing Your Systems for Clustering 47
5
In the dialog box, create a partition the size of the entire drive (the default) and then
click
OK
.
NOTE: The MSCS software allows only one node to access a logical drive at a time. If a logical
drive is partitioned into multiple disks, only one node is able to access all the partitions for that
logical drive. If each node must access a separate disk, two or more logical drives must be present
in the storage system.
6
Click
Yes
to confirm the partition.
7
With the mouse pointer on the same icon, right-click and select
Change Drive Letter and
Path
from the submenu.
8
Assign a drive letter to an NTFS volume or create a mount point.
To assign a drive letter to an NTFS volume:
a
Click
Edit
and select the letter you want to assign to the drive (for example,
z
).
b
Click
OK
.
c
Go to step 9.
To create a mount point:
a
Click
Add
.
b
Click
Mount in the following empty NTFS folder
.
c
Type the path to an empty folder on an NTFS volume, or click
Browse
to locate it.
d
Click
OK
.
e
Go to step 9.
9
Click
Yes
to confirm the changes.
10
Right-click the drive icon again and select
Format
from the submenu.
11
Under
Volume Label
, enter a descriptive name for the new volume; for example,
Disk_Z
or
Email_Data
.
12
In the dialog box, change the file system to
NTFS
, select
Quick Format
, and click the
Start
button.
NOTE: The NTFS file system format is required for shared-disk resources under MSCS.
13
Click
OK
at the warning.
14
Click
OK
to acknowledge that the format is complete.
15
Click
Close
to close the dialog box.
16
Repeat step 3 through step 15 for each remaining drive.
17
Close
Disk Management
.
18
Shut down node 1.
19
Turn on node 2.
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