I am testing Server 2012 and connecting to a volume on a SAN.
I select New Volume and select the disk it finds on our SAN, take the remaining defaults. The new volume is created ok and appears in the Volumes Pane. However, this is where I seem to run into later difficulties.
I might add I can use and add shares etc etc, but when I look at the disks section, then I now have two new disks appearing, both with the correct capacity. One is shown as unallocated with 0.00B and partition GPT, and the other is set as 3.64TB in the unallocated column, but has partition Unknown and set to Read-Only.
I thought this odd when I first set up, but as I was able to use for testing with shares etc, I didn't follow up.
Trouble is, now I'm trying to set a cluster up and when I run the validate configuration, it fails indicating it is seeing two identical disks (which I assume is the result of the problems above).
Actual error:
Two disks have been found on node xxx.domain that cannot be
distinguished from one another. The disks involved have disk signature
{4ab77445-ecc9-497e-b5eb-70cdefa2ddaf}, SCSI page 83h VPD descriptor
600C0FF00014181E2418715101000000, SCSI page 80h VPD Serial Number
00c0ff14181e00002418715101000000. Please verify the storage configuration. You
must either mask (unpresent, detach) one of these LUNs at this node, or, run
validation and specify a disk list that includes only one of these disks, for
example by using the Test-Cluster cmdlet in Windows PowerShell.
There is only one lun that I've attached to, so not sure why this is happening and displaying the two disks mentioned previously.
Any help much appreciated.
Regards
Ian