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Change Cluster Quorum Disk, online, while 1 Host already crashed

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Hello,

Orginally, old 3rd party integrators had configured a Windows 2008 Failover Cluster, containing 1 SAN (HP MSA2000) connected with SAS to 2x HP Proliant Servers.

After this, the first Proliant Server crashed (I guess motherboard failure).

So now the cluster is running on just 1 Server, with the other node "offline". Please see the  screenshot.

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Sorry for some reason I am not able to post pictures or links.

Now we have a problem, namely Drive F: is a RAID1 volume on the SAN, and this RAID is unhealty.

One of the 2 Disks of the F: volume has crashed in the SAN and we are in no possibility of fixing this issue fast.

http://i60 tinypic com/346uq36.png

The Quorum drive is dedicated drive F:.

I want to change this to Drive G: (filesharing drive), because that drive is in RAID5 and has no crashed disks.

But this disk also has data on it, is this a problem?

It is possible to do this online without any risk?

The 3rd pary integrator is gone and I have no experience in this.

If it is not possible, my question would be: what is the RAID1 on the quorum disk F: would get lost.

It is possible to boot the server and change the Quorum disk even when the old Quorum disk crashed?

Thanks a lot,

Best Regards,

Joris


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