June 5, 2017 at 11:19 am
On physical active/passive cluster, needed to expand drive for tempdb by 100 gig. Had windows admin add space but resource not recognizing it, what am I missing (did reboot of cluster)
June 5, 2017 at 11:27 am
tcronin 95651 - Monday, June 5, 2017 11:19 AMOn physical active/passive cluster, needed to expand drive for tempdb by 100 gig. Had windows admin add space but resource not recognizing it, what am I missing (did reboot of cluster)
did you go into disk manager and grow your disk?
The above is all just my opinion on what you should do.
As with all advice you find on a random internet forum - you shouldn't blindly follow it. Always test on a test server to see if there is negative side effects before making changes to live!
I recommend you NEVER run "random code" you found online on any system you care about UNLESS you understand and can verify the code OR you don't care if the code trashes your system.
June 5, 2017 at 11:29 am
tcronin 95651 - Monday, June 5, 2017 11:19 AMOn physical active/passive cluster, needed to expand drive for tempdb by 100 gig. Had windows admin add space but resource not recognizing it, what am I missing (did reboot of cluster)
as bmg002 said, you'll need to extend the existing disk to use the added space using Windows Disk Manager - or diskpart
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June 5, 2017 at 11:33 am
disk manager not cutting it looking at diskpart
June 5, 2017 at 1:12 pm
tcronin 95651 - Monday, June 5, 2017 11:33 AMdisk manager not cutting it looking at diskpart
Disk Manager is essentially a GUI for diskpart. DiskPart is a touch more risky as it is easy to send the incorrect command and blow away the partition or reformat the entire disk.
Disk Manager is a much safer option and I would recommend it over diskpart especially if you are not familiar with diskpart.
All you need to do in diskmanager is right-click on the partition and select "extend volume". I believe that you can only extend the last partition on the disk, but for a SQL server, I expect you are allocating the entire disk to your system, not partitioning it up (as that will slow things down as you can have the OS attempt to do concurrent writes on the same disk but different partitions and you can't read or write from/to 2 separate blocks at the same time).
Which version of windows are you doing this on? I think some older versions do not allow for partition extended. And I think (but could be wrong) that you need to be on NTFS or exFAT in order to extend a partition without data loss.
The above is all just my opinion on what you should do.
As with all advice you find on a random internet forum - you shouldn't blindly follow it. Always test on a test server to see if there is negative side effects before making changes to live!
I recommend you NEVER run "random code" you found online on any system you care about UNLESS you understand and can verify the code OR you don't care if the code trashes your system.
June 5, 2017 at 1:17 pm
2012 NFTS
June 5, 2017 at 1:38 pm
tcronin 95651 - Monday, June 5, 2017 1:17 PM2012 NFTS
Then you should be able to extend the partition inside disk manager.
Where I work, our windows admins handle presenting the disk to the cluster, and it is up to me to extend it. We are running windows Server 2012 as well and I've never had an issue.
Are you using a 3rd party disk manager? I know when we used MELIO for a disk management tool, you couldn't extend it from within windows without corrupting the whole disk.
If you ahve a 3rd party disk management tool, I'd check in that. We use DxEnterprise to manage disks on the live cluster and windows disk management (the mmc tool) to manage it on test. This is mostly because on test, we don't have failover set up but we do for live.
The above is all just my opinion on what you should do.
As with all advice you find on a random internet forum - you shouldn't blindly follow it. Always test on a test server to see if there is negative side effects before making changes to live!
I recommend you NEVER run "random code" you found online on any system you care about UNLESS you understand and can verify the code OR you don't care if the code trashes your system.
June 5, 2017 at 2:44 pm
Yup...tools from the storage vendor might be needed, if applicable. I think if it's a CSV, it needs to be done from the owner node as well.
Sue
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