Cannot add drive using Failover Cluster Manager - no disks suitable for cluster disks were found

Question

I am creating a new SQL cluster to replace out old cluster. I created a new, two server cluster running Server 2022. I am told I need to add the disk to the cluster before I can install our SQL server software. I created a new volume in our PowerStore. The servers in the cluster can see the drive in Disk Management. They are online and visible in File Explorer. I then used the Failover Cluster Manager and revalidated the configuration. When I expand Storage and right-click Disks, to add disks, it says there are no suitible disk.

Answer 1

Hi Doug V,

Thanks for your post. Please open Disk Management and check if the disk has already been initialized. If the status of the disk is Not Initialized, right click on it and select Initialize Disk.

Best Regards,

Ian Xue

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Answer 2

Hey,

As mentioned, you should bring the LUN online and initialize it on one of the nodes and it should appear as the available storage in Failover Cluster. https://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/7531/add-new-disk-to-windows-failover-cluster-for-sql-server-and-move-database/

The following guide shoul help with configuration.
https://www.starwindsoftware.com/resource-library/starwind-virtual-san-installing-and-configuring-sql-server-2019-tp-failover-cluster-instance-on-windows-server-2016/

Cheers,

Alex Bykovskyi

StarWind Software

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