2012 New Cluster Adding A Storage Pool fails with Error Code 0x8007139F

Question

Trying to setup a brand new cluster (first node) on Server 2012. Hardware passes cluster validation tests and consists of a dell 2950 with an MD1000 JBOD enclosure configured with a bunch of 7.2K RPM SAS and 15k SAS Drives. There is no RAID card or any other
storage fabric, just a SAS adapter and an external enclosure.
I can create a regular storage pool just fine and access it with no issues on the same box when I don't add it to the cluster. However when I try to add it to the cluster I keep getting these errors on adding a disk:
Error Code: 0x8007139F if I try to add a disk (The group or resource is not in the correct state to perform the requested operation)
When adding the Pool I get this error:
Error Code 0x80070016 The Device Does not recognize the command
Full Error on adding the pool
Cluster resource 'Cluster Pool 1' of type 'Storage Pool' in clustered role 'b645f6ed-38e4-11e2-93f4-001517b8960b' failed. The error code was '0x16' ('The device does not recognize the command.').
Based on the failure policies for the resource and role, the cluster service may try to bring the resource online on this node or move the group to another node of the cluster and then restart it.  Check the resource and group state using Failover Cluster
Manager or the Get-ClusterResource Windows PowerShell cmdlet.
if I try to just add the raw disks to the storage -- without using a pool or anything - almost every one of them but one fails with incorrect function except for one (a 7.2K RPM SAS drive). I cannot see any difference between it and the other disks. Any
ideas? The error codes aren't anything helpful. I would imagine there's something in the drive configuration or hardware I am missing here I just don't know what considering the validation is passing and I am meeting the listed prerequisites.
If I can provide any more details that would assist please let me know. Kind of at a loss here.

Answer 1

Hi,
You mentioned you use Dell MD 1000 as storage, Dell MD 1000 is Direct Attached Storage (DAS)
Windows Server cluster do support DAS storage, Failover clusters include improvements to the way the cluster communicates with storage, improving the performance of a storage area network (SAN) or direct attached storage (DAS).
But the Raid controller PERC 5/6 in MD 1000 may not support cluster technology. I did find its official article, but I found its next generation MD 1200 use Raid controller PERC H 800 is still not support cluster technology.
You may contact Dell to check that.
For more information please refer to following MS articles:
Technical Guidebook for PowerVault MD1200 and MD 1220
http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pvaul/en/storage-powervault-md12x0-technical-guidebook.pdf
Dell™ PERC 6/i, PERC 6/E and CERC 6/I User’s Guide
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/storage/RAID/PERC6/en/PDF/en_ug.pdf
Hope this helps!
TechNet Subscriber Support
If you are
TechNet Subscription user and have any feedback on our support quality, please send your feedback
here.
Lawrence
TechNet Community Support