Reference Guide

Preparing Your Systems for Clustering 27
To create a mount point:
a Click Add .
b Click Mount in the following empty NTFS folder .
c Type the path to an empty folder on an NTFS volume, or click Browse
to locate it.
d Click OK .
e Go to step 9.
9 Click Yes to confirm the changes.
10 Right-click the drive icon again and select Format from the submenu.
11 Under Volume Label , enter a descriptive name for the new volume; for
example, Disk_Z or Email_Data.
12 In the dialog box, change the file system to NTFS , select Quick Format ,
and click
Start .
NOTE: The NTFS file system is required for shared-disk resources under MSCS.
13 Click OK at the warning.
14 Click OK to acknowledge that the format is complete.
15 Click Close to close the dialog box.
16 Repeat step 3 through step 15 for each remaining drive.
17 Close Disk Management .
18 Turn off node 1.
19 Perform the following steps on the remaining node(s), one at a time:
a Turn on the node.
b Open Disk Management .
c Assign the drive letters to the drives.
This procedure allows Windows to mount the volumes.
d Reassign the drive letter, if necessary.
To reassign the drive letter, repeat step 7 through step 9.
e Turn off the node.