Adding Additional Shared Storage

At this point, we have a Node and Disk Majority cluster using a shared witness disk to maintain quorum. We can now add the shared storage that will be used as a Cluster Shared Volume.

Another LUN must be provisioned for the CSV to hold the virtual machine images used in live migration. This LUN may be a new unpartitioned volume or one that already contains virtual machine images and data.

Connect this LUN via iSCSI or Fibre Channel to both nodes in the cluster. The disk must be initialized and formatted with an NTFS file format prior to cluster use in the cluster. When properly configured, the disk shows in Disk Management on both nodes.

Next, we add the new shared disk to the cluster, as follows:

1. On one of ...

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