Hi,
We have a VCS 5.1 for windows 2003 R2 Enterprise edition x64 with 3 nodes (one local cluster with 2 nodes and alternate site with one node for BRP)
Originally we created the vcshelper for cluster control and a domain user account for SQL Server service.
For these accounts the installer requested domain administrator privileges so we granted.
Now for security management reasons and allignment with HQ we need to reduce privileges on these 2 accounts so we were reffered to document:
http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH31331
We did this but whenever we reduce privileges on the accounts the sql server does not start. I present the sequence of events below.
Steps:
1.We removed administrator privilege from vcshelper and domain user account
2. We changed both accounts for Veritas and SQL server. We restarted service in one machine and worked fine
3.Then we failed over to the other node and the cluster was fine but SQL could not start sending error:
Failed allocate pages: FAIL_PAGE_ALLOCATION 1
Error: 17311, Severity: 16, State: 1. (Params:). The error is printed in terse mode because there was error during formatting. Tracing, ETW, notifications etc are skipped.
4.I retried removing the account and using Local system account but got same message
5. We put back privileges to VCShelper and domain user account
6. And with this I made a failover cycle between the two nodes and worked fine. (A to B and B to A)
PLEASE ADVISE ON WHAT TO DO TO ALLOW SQL SERVER TO START
PS: We haven tried the next text of failover to alternate site due we have this problem in local cluster
Thanks in advance