Hi,
I thought I understood that you wanted to set up a Microsoft Cluster Services (MSCS, WSFC), am I wrong?
Because in this case, if you want to make a cluster with more than one machine, you have to go through the RDMs or the VVOLS. For vvols this is what I think I understand from the documentation.
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.7/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-67-setup-mscs.pdf
Otherwise, In the article below we also talk about vmdk sharing but in a vSan infrastructure for "RAC Oracle" or Redhat clusters
Hi,
Yes I am using vvol for ms cluster. I tried to add get-vm $VMName and ran the code again. It is adding only 1 disk on vm and through this error. please can you help.
Hi,
Here is the screen shot below. I ran the below code again and got this error while the code add 2nd and 3rd HDD.
new Hard disk added screen shot
ISCI Controller setting
Hi,
So now the adding disk using the code is working fine. now I wanted to add the partition and drive letter remotely on the nodes using the powershell. I found a code on google and I have modified it as per my requirement. using the below code I wanted to achieve this ....
1. Get the nodes from a input file
2. Find out the offline disk and make them online.
3. Find the online RAW disk and initialize them using GPT partition.
4. Create a partition of disk 1 with a volume level and assign a drive latter
5. Create all required folders into the drive created point #3, I will be using those folder as mount point wit other disks.
6. Cretae the partition for the other disk and use the folders as mount point with no drive letter and assign the full folder path as volume label
Till point#5 the code is working fine. but when it come to point#6 to create partition of other disk and make them as mount point, I am getting the below error. Please can someone help me here to achieve what I am looking for.
#1. Get the nodes from a input file
$vms = Get-Content "F:\Jeetu\Add-Disk-Script\servers.txt"
foreach ($VMname in $vms) {}
#2. Find out the offline disk and make them online.
Invoke-Command -ComputerName $VMname -ScriptBlock { get-disk | where operationalstatus -eq Offline | Set-Disk -IsOffline:$false }
#3. Find the online RAW disk and initialize them using GPT partition.
Invoke-Command -ComputerName $VMname -ScriptBlock { get-disk | where PartitionStyle -eq RAW | Initialize-Disk -PartitionStyle GPT }
#4. Create a partition of disk 1 with a volume level and assign a drive latter. Check Disk Number Manually.
Invoke-Command -ComputerName $VMname -ScriptBlock { New-Partition -DiskNumber 2 -UseMaximumSize }
Invoke-Command -ComputerName $VMname -ScriptBlock { Get-Partition –Disknumber 2 –PartitionNumber 2 | Format-Volume –FileSystem NTFS –NewFileSystemLabel TESTSQLDB001 –Confirm:$false }
Invoke-Command -ComputerName $VMname -ScriptBlock { Get-Partition -DiskNumber 2 -PartitionNumber 2 | Set-Partition -NewDriveLetter L }
#5. Create all required folders into the drive created point, I will be using those folder as mount point with other disks.
Invoke-Command -ComputerName $VMname -ScriptBlock { mkdir L:\TESTSQLDB001 }
Invoke-Command -ComputerName $VMname -ScriptBlock { mkdir L:\TESTSQLDB001\Data }
Invoke-Command -ComputerName $VMname -ScriptBlock { mkdir L:\TESTSQLDB001\Backup }
#6. Cretae the partition for the other disk and use the folders as mount point with no drive letter and assign the full folder path as volume label
Invoke-Command -ComputerName $VMname -ScriptBlock { New-Partition -DiskNumber 3 -UseMaximumSize }
Invoke-Command -ComputerName $VMname -ScriptBlock { Add-PartitionAccessPath -DiskNumber 3 -PartitionNumber 3 –AccessPath L:\TESTSQLDB001\Data }
Invoke-Command -ComputerName $VMname -ScriptBlock { Get-Partition –Disknumber 3 –PartitionNumber 3 | Format-Volume –FileSystem NTFS –NewFileSystemLabel "L:\TESTSQLDB001\Data" –Confirm:$false }
Invoke-Command -ComputerName $VMname -ScriptBlock { Get-Partition -DiskNumber 3 -PartitionNumber 3 | Set-Partition -NoDefaultDriveLetter:$True }
Invoke-Command -ComputerName $VMname -ScriptBlock { New-Partition -DiskNumber 4 -UseMaximumSize }
Invoke-Command -ComputerName $VMname -ScriptBlock { Add-PartitionAccessPath -DiskNumber 4 -PartitionNumber 4 –AccessPath "L:\TESTSQLDB001\Backup" }
Invoke-Command -ComputerName $VMname -ScriptBlock { Get-Partition –Disknumber 4 –PartitionNumber 4 | Format-Volume –FileSystem NTFS –NewFileSystemLabel "L:\TESTSQLDB001\Backup" –Confirm:$false }
Invoke-Command -ComputerName $VMname -ScriptBlock { Get-Partition -DiskNumber 4 -PartitionNumber 4 | Set-Partition -NoDefaultDriveLetter:$True }
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