{"id":14869,"date":"2020-10-14T19:44:37","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T17:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dbi-services.com\/blog\/sql-server-alwayson-node-and-add-all-eligible-storage-to-the-cluster\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T11:47:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T09:47:20","slug":"sql-server-alwayson-node-and-add-all-eligible-storage-to-the-cluster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dbi-services.com\/blog\/sql-server-alwayson-node-and-add-all-eligible-storage-to-the-cluster\/","title":{"rendered":"SQL Server AlwaysOn node &#8220;Add all eligible storage to the cluster&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I made a mistake recently when adding a new node to an existing Windows Failover Cluster supporting AlwaysOn SQL Server instances.<\/p>\n<p>When adding a new node using the GUI there&#8217;s this option checked by default named &#8220;Add all eligible storage to the cluster&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-44143\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dbi-services.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Add_eligible_storage_checkbox.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"595\" height=\"408\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Before performing the operation the disks on the 2 nodes of my cluster were used by the SQL Server instances.<br \/>\nBecause I&#8217;m using the AlwaysOn features the disks are local on each node. They are not clustered.<\/p>\n<p>This option doesn&#8217;t seem to perform any check about the disks state. It will take offline all the disks on all the cluster nodes and try to add them to the cluster.<\/p>\n<p>So after clicking &#8220;Finish&#8221; on the Wizard, all the disks on my 2 existing nodes where OFFLINE.<br \/>\nAll my AlwaysOn instances were down.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dbi-services.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/disks_offline.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-44145\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dbi-services.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/disks_offline.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"676\" height=\"510\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you are in the same situation you will find below the steps I went through to fix fix my AlwaysOn instances.<\/p>\n<p>First, I removed all the disks from the cluster. As you can see all the disks are visible as &#8220;Cluster Shared Volume&#8221;. In my case, they were Offline, not Online as shown in this screenshot.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dbi-services.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/ClusterSharedStorage.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-44153\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dbi-services.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/ClusterSharedStorage.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"494\" height=\"131\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I did this first step manually in the Failover Cluster Manager interface but it could be done faster using the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/powershell\/module\/failoverclusters\/remove-clustersharedvolume\">Remove-ClusterSharedVolume<\/a> command.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, I put all the disks back Online. I had dozens of disks. Instead of doing it manually here is the Powershell script that can save a lot of time.<\/p>\n<p>With <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/powershell\/module\/storage\/get-disk\">Get-Disk<\/a> we can list the Offline disks.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div id=\"highlighter_222175\" class=\"syntaxhighlighter  powershell\">\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"gutter\">\n<div class=\"line number1 index0 alt2\">1<\/div>\n<div class=\"line number2 index1 alt1\">2<\/div>\n<div class=\"line number3 index2 alt2\">3<\/div>\n<div class=\"line number4 index3 alt1\">4<\/div>\n<div class=\"line number5 index4 alt2\">5<\/div>\n<div class=\"line number6 index5 alt1\">6<\/div>\n<div class=\"line number7 index6 alt2\">7<\/div>\n<div class=\"line number8 index7 alt1\">8<\/div>\n<div class=\"line number9 index8 alt2\">9<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td class=\"code\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"line number1 index0 alt2\"><code class=\"powershell plain\">PS C:\\&gt; <\/code><code class=\"powershell functions\">Get-Disk<\/code> <code class=\"powershell plain\">| <\/code><code class=\"powershell functions\">Where-Object<\/code> <code class=\"powershell plain\">IsOffline <\/code><code class=\"powershell operator value\">-Eq<\/code> <code class=\"powershell variable\">$True<\/code><\/div>\n<div class=\"line number2 index1 alt1\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"line number3 index2 alt2\"><code class=\"powershell plain\">Number Friendly Name\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 OperationalStatus<\/code><\/div>\n<div class=\"line number4 index3 alt1\"><code class=\"powershell plain\">------ -------------\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 -----------------<\/code><\/div>\n<div class=\"line number5 index4 alt2\"><code class=\"powershell plain\">1\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 VMware Virtual disk SCSI Disk Device\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Offline<\/code><\/div>\n<div class=\"line number6 index5 alt1\"><code class=\"powershell plain\">2\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 VMware Virtual disk SCSI Disk Device\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Offline<\/code><\/div>\n<div class=\"line number7 index6 alt2\"><code class=\"powershell plain\">3\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 VMware Virtual disk SCSI Disk Device\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Offline<\/code><\/div>\n<div class=\"line number8 index7 alt1\"><code class=\"powershell plain\">4\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 VMware Virtual disk SCSI Disk Device\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Offline<\/code><\/div>\n<div class=\"line number9 index8 alt2\"><code class=\"powershell plain\">5\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 VMware Virtual disk SCSI Disk Device\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Offline<\/code><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Piping this into <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/powershell\/module\/storage\/set-disk\">Set-Disk<\/a> will do the Job for all disks in one command.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div id=\"highlighter_582011\" class=\"syntaxhighlighter  powershell\">\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"gutter\">\n<div class=\"line number1 index0 alt2\">1<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td class=\"code\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"line number1 index0 alt2\"><code class=\"powershell plain\">PS C:\\&gt; <\/code><code class=\"powershell functions\">Get-Disk<\/code> <code class=\"powershell plain\">| <\/code><code class=\"powershell functions\">Where-Object<\/code> <code class=\"powershell plain\">IsOffline <\/code><code class=\"powershell operator value\">-Eq<\/code> <code class=\"powershell variable\">$True<\/code> <code class=\"powershell plain\">| <\/code><code class=\"powershell functions\">Set-Disk<\/code> <code class=\"powershell color1\">-IsOffline<\/code> <code class=\"powershell variable\">$False<\/code><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Now the disks are online and you should be able to start your SQL Server instances.<\/p>\n<p>My instances did not start at all even with the disks back online.<br \/>\nLooking at the error log I could see an issue with the master database.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div id=\"highlighter_144115\" class=\"syntaxhighlighter  text\">\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"gutter\">\n<div class=\"line number1 index0 alt2\">1<\/div>\n<div class=\"line number2 index1 alt1\">2<\/div>\n<div class=\"line number3 index2 alt2\">3<\/div>\n<div class=\"line number4 index3 alt1\">4<\/div>\n<div class=\"line number5 index4 alt2\">5<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td class=\"code\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"line number1 index0 alt2\"><code class=\"text plain\">The operating system returned error 21(The device is not ready.) to SQL Server <\/code><\/div>\n<div class=\"line number2 index1 alt1\"><code class=\"text plain\">during a read at offset 0x0000000004a000 in file 'C:\\mountpoints\\**\\master.mdf'. <\/code><\/div>\n<div class=\"line number3 index2 alt2\"><code class=\"text plain\">Additional messages in the SQL Server error log and system event log may provide more detail. <\/code><\/div>\n<div class=\"line number4 index3 alt1\"><code class=\"text plain\">This is a severe system-level error condition that threatens database integrity and must be corrected immediately. <\/code><\/div>\n<div class=\"line number5 index4 alt2\"><code class=\"text plain\">Complete a full database consistency check (DBCC CHECKDB).<\/code><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Looking at the folder permissions everything seemed to be good. The issue was at the disk level.<\/p>\n<p>When turned back online the disks were in a Read-only state. This setting was probably set when the cluster tried to add the disks to its available storage.<\/p>\n<p>Again, here is the Powershell script that will remove the Read-only flag on all disks instead of doing it one by one with Diskpart.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div id=\"highlighter_801405\" class=\"syntaxhighlighter  powershell\">\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"gutter\">\n<div class=\"line number1 index0 alt2\">1<\/div>\n<div class=\"line number2 index1 alt1\">2<\/div>\n<div class=\"line number3 index2 alt2\">3<\/div>\n<div class=\"line number4 index3 alt1\">4<\/div>\n<div class=\"line number5 index4 alt2\">5<\/div>\n<div class=\"line number6 index5 alt1\">6<\/div>\n<div class=\"line number7 index6 alt2\">7<\/div>\n<div class=\"line number8 index7 alt1\">8<\/div>\n<div class=\"line number9 index8 alt2 highlighted\">9<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td class=\"code\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"line number1 index0 alt2\"><code class=\"powershell plain\">PS C:\\&gt; <\/code><code class=\"powershell functions\">Get-Disk<\/code> <code class=\"powershell plain\">| <\/code><code class=\"powershell functions\">Where-Object<\/code> <code class=\"powershell plain\">IsReadonly <\/code><code class=\"powershell operator value\">-Eq<\/code> <code class=\"powershell variable\">$True<\/code><\/div>\n<div class=\"line number2 index1 alt1\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"line number3 index2 alt2\"><code class=\"powershell plain\">Number Friendly Name\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 OperationalStatus<\/code><\/div>\n<div class=\"line number4 index3 alt1\"><code class=\"powershell plain\">------ -------------\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 -----------------<\/code><\/div>\n<div class=\"line number5 index4 alt2\"><code class=\"powershell plain\">1\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 VMware Virtual disk SCSI Disk Device\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Online<\/code><\/div>\n<div class=\"line number6 index5 alt1\"><code class=\"powershell plain\">2\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 VMware Virtual disk SCSI Disk Device\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Online<\/code><\/div>\n<div class=\"line number7 index6 alt2\"><code class=\"powershell plain\">3\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 VMware Virtual disk SCSI Disk Device\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Online<\/code><\/div>\n<div class=\"line number8 index7 alt1\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"line number9 index8 alt2 highlighted\"><code class=\"powershell plain\">PS C:\\&gt; <\/code><code class=\"powershell functions\">Get-Disk<\/code> <code class=\"powershell plain\">| <\/code><code class=\"powershell functions\">Where-Object<\/code> <code class=\"powershell plain\">IsReadonly <\/code><code class=\"powershell operator value\">-Eq<\/code> <code class=\"powershell variable\">$True<\/code> <code class=\"powershell plain\">| <\/code><code class=\"powershell functions\">Set-Disk<\/code> <code class=\"powershell color1\">-IsReadonly<\/code> <code class=\"powershell variable\">$False<\/code><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>After this last command, I managed to start again all the SQL Server instances on all nodes.<\/p>\n<p>I would recommend to always uncheck this option when adding a node to a Cluster whether it hosts FCI or AlwaysOn instances. I don&#8217;t know why Microsoft still have this option checked by default when there is no shared storage.<br \/>\nIf you just did the mistake I hope these PowerShell lines will save you some time fixing your servers.<\/p>\n<p>Written by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/steven-naudet-aa540158\/\">Steven Naudet<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made a mistake recently when adding a new node to an existing Windows Failover Cluster supporting AlwaysOn SQL Server instances. When adding a new node using the GUI there&#8217;s this option checked by default named &#8220;Add all eligible storage to the cluster&#8221;. 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