I added the MSDTC service in a 2 node WIN2K8 cluster using one of the 2
clustered disks. While I try to install SQL fail-over cluster - it tells me
that I can not use the disk since the MSDTC service is dependent on it. How
do I get around this? I want to be able to use the same disk for both MSDTC
and SQL. I have 2 disks - one for SQL logs and one for SQL Data.

Thanks in advance,

Walid

"Walidg" <walidg (AT) newsgroup (DOT) nospam> wrote

This is expected behavior. You need to have separate physical disk resources
for your SQL instance.

What you can do, however, is remove the MSDTC and then recreate it using the
quorum disk for the MSDTC. This is supported, but it may be an issue for
performance if you use MSDTC extensively.

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Thanks, Russ. Actually what I did was remove the MSTDC service - install SQL
and then create the MSDTC serivice in the SQL resource group. This way, I
was able to use the same disk for both SQL and MSDTC.

"Russ Kaufmann" wrote: