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I'm installing a fresh SQL2000 build on a new cluster. Using NT4 Enterprise. I have a 2 disc mirror and 3 disk raid5 array. When the SQL install starts it asks me to select the cluster disk where DATA files will be placed. I select the 3 disc raid5 array. I then get a warning message stating I have chosen a group containing the "quorum" resource, which it dosn't recommend. What does this mean, I thought the Quorum was the Transaction Log..I'm aiming for the transaction logs to go on the 2 disc mirrored set and the database to be on the Raid5 array. Any help very welcome as no books we have mention this.. Thanks in advance. John

Posted 1/22/2001

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When installing SQL2000 in a Clustered environment, there is a recommended QUORUM DRIVE, usually recommended to be 500 megs, for the ability for TRANSACTION information for the CLUSTER to be stored, this allows the cluster to write information to the cluster so that the other CLUSTER MEMEBER is aware of changes made and allows for a single node to Command control of the cluster, without the QUORUM drive, the cluster fails. QUORUM drives ARE REQUIRED. Best way to do it is create to logical disks, one with a 50-500 meg Quorum drive, and the rest for the shared array for SQL. Any questions, review this support article: http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q280/3/45.ASP

Posted 3/12/2001

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