Hi,
Prior to clustering I have been rapid provisioning virtual machines using SAN disk cloning tools.
As all the disks are cloned from the same master disk, the volumes on the disk will share the same VolumeID. This wasn't a problem as Windows would automatically detect the duplicate disk and leave it in offline. When the disk was brought online the VolumeID would be changed automatically.
However with a cluster, the clashing volume might be owned by another node in the cluster and windows would not detect the duplicate VolumeId.
The duplicate would be picked up however, when I try to import the disk into the cluster and disk would remain in "failed" state.
The only way to fix it would be to locate the node that owns the volume with the identical volume id and bring it online on that node prior to importing the disk into the cluster. This would force the VolumeId change.
I have tried to change the win32_volume deviceid property in powershell but it's read only.
How can I change the volumeid using powershell. There is an app available by Mark Russinovich to change volumeid however that need the disk to have a drive letter and I don't mount the volumes
Thanks
Daniel