Recovering a cluster from shared LUNs on a SnapMirror destination

Connect to shared LUNs on a SnapMirror destination in order to recover your MSCS cluster.

Before you begin

The following prerequisites must be met before you can successfully use the procedure described in this section to connect to shared LUNs on a SnapMirror destination and thus recover your MSCS cluster:

A SnapMirror replica of the source volume must exist on the destination volume prior to the failure of the physical disk resource.
You must know the original drive letters and paths to the shared LUNs on the SnapMirror source volume.
You must know the MSCS cluster name.

Configuring the cluster service to start manually
In order to recover a cluster from shared LUNs on a SnapMirror destination, you must first configure the cluster service to start manually.
Creating a temporary quorum disk
After you configure the cluster service to start manually, create a temporary quorum disk.
Starting the cluster service with the -fixquorum option
Complete this procedure after you create a temporary quorum disk.
Connecting to the new quorum disk
Complete this procedure after you start the cluster service with the -fixquorum option.
Connecting to a shared LUN on the SnapMirror destination volume
Complete this procedure after you have connected to the new quorum disk.

Parent topic: Using SnapMirror with SnapDrive for Windows

Related concepts

SnapMirror overview

Types of SnapMirror replication

Requirements for using SnapMirror with SnapDrive

Related tasks

Initiating replication manually

Connecting to a LUN in a mirrored destination volume

Restoring a volume on a SnapMirror destination