I'm trying to create a new share on a Windows 2012 R2 failover cluster but no matter what I try (Add File Share in Failover Cluster Manager, new share in fsmgmt.msc managing the cluster NetBIOS name and FQDN) I always receive the error "The resources must be online on the same node for this operation".
The setup:
Two Windows 2012 R2 nodes making a failover cluster, using a Dell PowerVault MD3220 shared storage. The File Server role a has dedicated LUN which appears as the S drive on both nodes (though it is only ever online on the active node). The share I'm trying to create is to a folder that exists on the S drive.
The File Server role has the following resources, according to Failover Cluster Manager. All are shown as online.
- Server Name: CFS1 (with its associated client access point IP)
- File Server: \\CFS1
- Storage: The dedicated LUN
The weird thing is, the File Server role is already running several shares that were created when the cluster was first built - all on the same S drive. All of the shares are members of a domain DFS (not sure if that's relevant)
The structure on disk is
S:
| - DfsShares
| - Folder1
| - Folder2
| - and so on...
Folder1 is already shared in the cluster, but Folder2 is causing the error (actually, to be accurate, there are 10 folders already shared and two are causing the error)
Any ideas what resources it thinks aren't online - or where to look for more information?