Here are the steps I used to bring a shared disk online from within Windows 2008 R2. I was attempting to create a Microsoft Cluster within VMWare ESXi when I ran across this issue. This worked to bring the disk online and I was able to add it to the cluster I created, however I have run across some other VMWare issues preventing me from bring up the other node of the cluster. Nonetheless, here was how I brought the disk online. Apparently, this is how Windows 2008 handles all newly added shared storage. <\/p>\n
H:\\>DISKPART<\/p>\n
Microsoft DiskPart version 6.1.7600
\nCopyright (C) 1999-2008 Microsoft Corporation.
\nOn computer: VMCL01<\/p>\n
DISKPART> LIST DISK<\/p>\n
Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
\n ——– ————- ——- ——- — —
\n Disk 0 Online 20 GB 0 B
\n Disk 1 Offline 10 GB 10 GB<\/p>\n
DISKPART> SAN POLICY=ONLINEALL<\/p>\n
DiskPart successfully changed the SAN policy for the current operating system.<\/p>\n
DISKPART> SELECT DISK 1<\/p>\n
Disk 1 is now the selected disk.<\/p>\n
DISKPART> ATTRIBUTES DISK
\nCurrent Read-only State : Yes
\nRead-only : Yes
\nBoot Disk : No
\nPagefile Disk : No
\nHibernation File Disk : No
\nCrashdump Disk : No
\nClustered Disk : No<\/p>\n
DISKPART> ATTRIBUTES DISK CLEAR READONLY<\/p>\n
Disk attributes cleared successfully.<\/p>\n
DISKPART> ONLINE DISK<\/p>\n
DiskPart successfully onlined the selected disk.<\/p>\n
DISKPART> ATTRIBUTES DISK
\nCurrent Read-only State : No
\nRead-only : No
\nBoot Disk : No
\nPagefile Disk : No
\nHibernation File Disk : No
\nCrashdump Disk : No
\nClustered Disk : Yes<\/p>\n
DISKPART> LIST DISK<\/p>\n
Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
\n ——– ————- ——- ——- — —
\n Disk 0 Online 20 GB 0 B
\n* Disk 1 Online 10 GB 10 GB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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