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Can Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) expose a volume to a Failover Cluster disk?

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I am running a Windows Server 2012 R2 failover cluster environment for development, to mirror our production cluster, and I have VSS able to expose to a drive, mount point or share local to the Cluster Node, but I cannot seem to be able to expose to a Cluster Role drive or mount point.

The error tends to be:

Attempting to expose the shadow copy as local mount point S:\Test. Could not expose the shadow copy set.

The last operation failed.

   - Returned HRESULT: 80070057
   - Error text: E_INVALIDARG

It seems that VSS only wants to talk to storage on the current node, and is not cluster-aware.

If anyone could confirm or offer a solution, I'd appreciate it.

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