Failover cluster manager -OLD witness share to be removed

Question

Hi I installed SQL Server 2019 on Windows 2019 and need to change witness share location to new location as per adviced from storage team. I configured with new location and up and running . old network share shows offline . I tried to delete from Fail-over cluster manager and failing to delete. Any one knows how to delete it
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Answer 1

Hi resolved this issue

step1: through Quorum configuration , select "do not confgure a quorum witness" and disabled

step 2: offline the witness share from Failover cluster manager

step3: remove the witness share from Failover cluster manager

step 4: freshly configure new network location

Answer 2

Hello

Thank you for your question and reaching out. I can understand you are having query\issues related to remove old witness share.

Please try to reboot your Cluster nodes one-by-one

Open cmd with elevated and type 'cluster res' to list out all of the resources. Copy the name of the failed FSW resource and then type:

cluster res "<failed resource name>" /delete

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Answer 3

hi I tried to delete the resource and end up with following issue.

"the cluster resource could not be deleted since it is a core resource "

Witnerss_error.JPG

Answer 4

Hi sorry for the late reply and was on leave. I tried to delete and end up with error

Witnerss_error.JPG