I would like to snapshot my CSVs at a SAN level (a SAN provider Windows has zero integration with) and mount them back on individual cluster nodes as standard disks, with drive letters, as a method of restoring data...
When i do this, if i try and online the disk it thinks that the volume is already managed by the cluster, presumably because it has some kind of CSV signature? The existing CSV, the one this snapshot is taken from, would still be mounted and live. Is there any way of clearing this. I just want the disk to be a dumb NTFS volume for the purposes of getting at the data and it will likely be deleted post restore.
Any help greatly appreciated.