All local disks except System Drive and Paging (if paging is on different disk) and attached storage such as SAN/iSCSI will participate in Windows Cluster Configuration validation as potential cluster disk.
If there is error of multiple disks with the same disk signature, especially local disk, the validation will fail.
This is usually happens on Virtual Machine when the disks are clone.
Well, this issue can be fix by changing the disk signature using diskpart utility.
Error Message
Steps:
- Open Command Prompt in Administrator Mode
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Run Diskpart
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In Diskpart command:
3.1. List All Disks
DISKPART> list disk
Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt -------- ------------- ------- ------- --- --- Disk 0 Online 102 MB 0 B Disk 1 Online 14 GB 1024 KB Disk 2 Online 103 MB 1984 KB Disk 3 Online 2154 MB 1984 KB Disk 4 Online 100 MB 67 MB * Disk 5 Online 5120 MB 5086 MB *
3.2. In this case, Disk 2 is clone disk
DISKPART> select disk 2
Disk 2 is now the selected disk.
3.3. Show current Disk 2 signature
DISKPART> uniqueid disk
Disk ID: B0237D22
3.4. Set New Disk 2 signature
DISKPART> uniqueid disk id=B0237D23
3.4. Show the new Disk 2 signature
DISKPART> uniqueid disk
Disk ID: B0237D23
3.5. Exit Diskpart
DISKPART> exit