Blue question mark icon on VMDg resource in a Windows 2008 R2 Failover Cluster

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Article ID: 100030855

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Resolution

This icon is a normal and expected icon for any third party/custom disk resource type in a failover cluster. It does not indicate any problems. It only indicates that a non-Physical disk resource is used.

 

 

Applies To

Windows 2008 R2

Windows 2008 R2 SP1

Storage Foundation for Windows 6.0

 

 

Issue/Introduction

 A blue question mark icon ‘?’ is displayed on the Volume Manager Disk Group (VMDg) resource in a Windows Server 2008 R2 Failover Cluster (WSFC).    

Figure 1: VMDg Resource displayed with ‘?’ icon in Failover Cluster Manager on Windows 2008 R2 Servers