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Problem
If a Windows Server Failover Cluster (WSFC) is destroyed, when it is re-created it will not know of additionally added types. For example, the default configuration of WSFC has no knowledge of the Volume Manager Disk Group (VMDG) resource.
Figure 1: "Volume Manager Disk Group" resource is not shown under "More resources..."
Solution
To resolve this issue, follow the steps as below:
1. From the Failover Cluster Management, right click on cluster, and select "Property".
2. Select "Resource Types" tab.
3. Click on "Add" and complete as below:
a) Resource DLL path and file name: C:windowsclustervxres.dll
b) Resource type name: Volume Manager Disk Group
c) Resource type display name: Volume Manager Disk Group
4. Click OK
After adding the vxres.dll, the VMDG resource will be showed as below:
Figure 2: VMDG resource included in Resource Types.
Figure 3: VMDG resource included in "More resources...".
1. From the Failover Cluster Management, right click on cluster, and select "Property".
2. Select "Resource Types" tab.
3. Click on "Add" and complete as below:
a) Resource DLL path and file name: C:windowsclustervxres.dll
b) Resource type name: Volume Manager Disk Group
c) Resource type display name: Volume Manager Disk Group
4. Click OK
After adding the vxres.dll, the VMDG resource will be showed as below:
Figure 2: VMDG resource included in Resource Types.
Figure 3: VMDG resource included in "More resources...".
NOTE: An alternate solution to the above steps is to repair the Storage Foundation for Windows installation as this will re-register the cluster components; or run the clusreg.cmd script. Please see the Referenced articles for more information.
Applies To
Windows Server 2008
Windows Server 2008 R2
Storage Foundation for Windows 5.1
Storage Foundation for Windows 6.0
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