Quick Tip – When Copying VHDs to a CSV Disk – Use The Disk Owner!

Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) is a new feature that was introduced in Windows 2008 R2.

If you want to read more about it, how it works, and how you can enable it. There is a lot of material out there that you can refer to:

• Windows 2008 R2 NLB & Failover Clustering
• http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd759255.aspx
• http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd630633(WS.10).aspx
• http://blogs.msdn.com/clustering/archive/2009/03/02/9453288.aspx
• http://blogs.msdn.com/clustering/archive/2009/02/19/9433146.aspx

Well, after you’ve setup your cluster, enabled CSV, and added clustered disks to CSV, it is now time to copy your VHD files to those CSV disk. The big question is, which cluster node should you perform this operation on?

We’ll, to make a long story short …

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