Hi All:
I have 2 VMware 5.5 VMs running 2012 R2 Standard that have the Failover Cluster Manager role installed. I was having trouble validating the cluster before creating it & received this error:
Failed to find or allocate arbitration sectors for physical disk {fbf0422f-6844-4a3d-9ad9-542e8eebfec1} from node <SERVER>. These sectors are used to test reads and writes to the disk. On a GPT disk, these sectors are located within the Cluster Metadata Partition, and this partition may need to be created from the Microsoft Reserved Partition so that the storage will validate. Please ensure that all GPT disks have a Microsoft Reserved Partition (MSR) present. Error: 0x80070022.
I've been working w/Dell's VMware & SAN Support Teams & they sent me a link https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/d1524238-a891-4c7d-84ae-e885a9f59861/server-2012-clustering that says "you need to create an MSR partition on the drives", which I did on both my RDMs (1 for quorum; 1 for shared storage). I ran the command after I selected the disk and now the disks look completely blank in Disk Management (I'd have to send a screenshot).
After that, cluster validation has no issues & I create the cluster. Now I cannot add either of the disks b/c:
Error Code: 0x8007174c
The disk is not configured in a way to be used with CSV. CSV disks must have a t least one partition that is formatted with NTFS or REFS.
So what did I do incorrectly? I had to use MSR to format the RDMs to validate the cluster, but now it wants another format. If anyone can find an actual MS document that goes into detail on where I went wrong, please include it, as I've found nothing.
Thanks.