Dell Shared PowerEdge RAID Controller (PERC) 8 For Dell PowerEdge VRTX Systems User’s Guide

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Clustering setup in Windows

The following registry entries are required on each node of the cluster to enable them to see the drives on the Shared PERC 8:

Table 1. Registry entries
Location	Entry type	Property	Value
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\ClusDisk\Parameters	DWORD	AllowBusTypeRAID	0X01

Cluster Setting: QuorumArbitrationTimeMax = 90

This value shall be increased to 90 from a default value of 20. This allows the clustered solution to tolerate a controller failover, which can in some cases take up to 80 seconds.

To change the QuorumArbitrationTimeMax registry value using PowerShell for Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2, do the following:

From a cluster node, open an elevated PowerShell prompt.
Run the following command with the appropriate value: Get-Cluster | %{ $_. QuorumArbitrationTimeMax = 90}
To confirm the QuorumArbitrationTimeMax value has changed on the cluster run: Get-Cluster | fl *

For more details on setting up clustering in Windows environments, see Building Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Clusters on the Dell PowerEdge VRTX .