I apologize if this is in the wrong forum.
I have a SQL Server 2008R2 server cluster setup. Currently, I have 5 drives (C: is the OS and E: to H: are the shared disks). Drive E: is the data drive. I also have the system databases (master, model and msdb) in there as well.
I'm wondering how to approach a problem where the shared disks (provisioned from a SAN) goes down and cannot be brought up. If it does, it takes the master, model and msdb as well.
How should one start a recovery process? I do have backups of all databases (system databases included).
As a last resort, I could have instructions to do a complete rebuild/reinstallation but that would be a last (and time consuming) resort.
I do see documentation on recovering master database when a master database already exists. In this case, there is no existing master database...
Perhaps I should be placing the system databases on the local drive just in case the shared drives go down? I'm assuming then I should be able to access the sql server and only need to recover the user databases.
Suggestions?