MDM 7.1 Installation on a Windows 2008 Cluster

[Former Member]

Hello everyone,

We have a two node x64 Windows 2008 Server cluster.

We have just installed MDM 7.1 (MDS & MDIS) onto the Microsoft Failover Cluster which already has an ABAP system and a JAVA system installed. Each of these systems has it's own Cluster Service/Application as required, with shared storage (saploc & sapmnt share for each install).

The only way I can get the MDM services to start (SAPMDQ_04 & SAPMDQ_05) is if the local saploc share is removed from each node (c:\sap\usr).

The following entry exists in the Windows Event log when the MDS or MDIS service tries to start

Unable to change to Directory C:\usr\sap\MDQ\MDS04\work. (Error 3 ESRCH*: No such process OR: The system cannot find the path specified.) [ntservstart.cpp 1053]

This path is not valid which is why the service doesn't start but I cannot work out why it is defaulting to looking at the saploc share on c:\usr\sap. MDS and MDIS are installed on the shared cluster disk which is v:\usr\sap so why does it not pick up this share i.e.
SRMQAMDMCI\saploc. (SRMQAMDMCI is the name of the Client Access Point for the MDM cluster service)

-> I can browse to this share perfectly fine

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Regards

Dave H

[Former Member]

I was just wondering if you found a solution to this problem.

I am currently installing a multi-sid installation on 2008 and getting the same problem.

The first <SID> was fine, but now when I try to install the the second <SID> I am getting the same problem with the saploc when installing the SCS.

The install recognizes the the Virtual saploc, but when the service starts it tries to use the physical saploc.

[former_member196113]

same problem here. Did you found a solution?

[Former Member]

Can you please share de solution ?

Thanks