I have a SQL cluster group on windows 2012 and esxi 5.5 and find that the active node is affected when I restart my passive node. It Initially caused an active node restart due to disks becoming unavailable for writing to on the active node and I believe it is covered by this article - VMware KB: ESXi/ESX hosts with visibility to RDM LUNs being used by MSCS nodes with RDMs may take a long time to sta…
The article doesn't make reference to a clustered environment though and as it doesn't seem correct behavior for a cluster, I thought I'd check to validate that this is indeed expected. Is it and if so, what can I do to counter this?
Thanks