Terminal Services Session Directory in HA - moving to new cluster

[mjrobertson]

Hello,

We are running windows server 2003 std sp2 and have 5 windows terminal
servers setup with a NLB farm. We have decided to provide HA for the
terminal services session directory which is running on a seperate windows
server 2003 cluster.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/840695


Due to the end of life our our existing EMC storage we need to move the
contents disk that holds the tssesdir folder from one SAN to another. I was
unable to find any documentation whatsoever and would appreciate some
assistance and or tips/gotchas. Here are the steps that I beleive we need to
take:

1. Present new SAN disk to cluster
2. In disk management, force a disk rescan. Give new disk a letter, format
and label.
3. Open cluster admin, in the group that contains the tssesdir resources,
create new resource, physical disk,
4. copy entire tssesdir from old disk to new disk
5. modify the TS SESS dir cluster resource service to include new disk as
dependency, remove old disk from dependency
6. bring group offline and online and then test.

Thanks in advance.

 

[mjrobertson]

I resolved my issue and I though i would post it here should anyone else be
looking for an answer. The simple answer is that when the session directory
service is brought offline and online again(restarting it) the required files
for session directory are recreated.

"mjrobertson" wrote:

> Hello,
>
> We are running windows server 2003 std sp2 and have 5 windows terminal
> servers setup with a NLB farm. We have decided to provide HA for the
> terminal services session directory which is running on a seperate windows
> server 2003 cluster.
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/840695
>
>
> Due to the end of life our our existing EMC storage we need to move the
> contents disk that holds the tssesdir folder from one SAN to another. I was
> unable to find any documentation whatsoever and would appreciate some
> assistance and or tips/gotchas. Here are the steps that I beleive we need to
> take:
>
> 1. Present new SAN disk to cluster
> 2. In disk management, force a disk rescan. Give new disk a letter, format
> and label.
> 3. Open cluster admin, in the group that contains the tssesdir resources,
> create new resource, physical disk,
> 4. copy entire tssesdir from old disk to new disk
> 5. modify the TS SESS dir cluster resource service to include new disk as
> dependency, remove old disk from dependency
> 6. bring group offline and online and then test.
>
> Thanks in advance.