You need shared SCSI, iSCSI, or Fibre You could invest in some iSCSI software that would enable you to use the third machine as a storage server. Mark Fugatt Dedicated Supportability Engineer (Exchange) Microsoft Limited Desk: +44 (0)118 909 5630 Mobile: +44 (0)7966 858108 MSN IM: markfu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Blog: http://blogs.technet.com/mfugatt Dedicated to proactively supporting Microsoft's enterprise Customers If you have any feedback about my work, please let either myself or my manager Andy Gitsham know at andygi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:andygi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=Feedback%20on%20Mark%20Fugatt%20(Ex change%20DSE)> or telephone +44 118 909 3233 ________________________________ From: exchangelist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:exchangelist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of shorabh upadhyay Sent: 19 May 2006 14:44 To: exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ExchangeList] Re: Clustering Hi mark, can we use a shared drive on third PC as shared storage ? Actually as i told u earlier that i want this in testing enviorement, that`s why we can not invest in any RAID or some any SCCI kind of storage drives. Is there any work around of this problem ? On 5/19/06, Mark Fugatt <markfu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: It order to create a cluster you will need some form of shared storage. Here are some links to documentation about clustering: http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Implementing-Two-Node-Cluster-Window s-2003-Enterprise.html http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/exchange/guides/E2k3TechRef /4a0ad6a0-ceb3-466e-9a68-377364f6c68c.mspx?mfr=true Mark Fugatt Dedicated Supportability Engineer (Exchange) Microsoft Limited Desk: +44 (0)118 909 5630 Mobile: +44 (0)7966 858108 MSN IM: markfu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Blog: http://blogs.technet.com/mfugatt Dedicated to proactively supporting Microsoft's enterprise Customers If you have any feedback about my work, please let either myself or my manager Andy Gitsham know at andygi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:andygi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=Feedback%20on%20Mark%20Fugatt%20(Ex change%20DSE)> or telephone +44 118 909 3233 ________________________________ From: exchangelist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:exchangelist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of shorabh upadhyay Sent: 19 May 2006 14:27 To: exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; exchangelist@xxxxxxxxx Subject: [ExchangeList] Clustering Hi All, I want to implement a two node cluster in testing enviorement. I have two machines with good configuration installed Windows Server 2003 Ent but these both machines are with " Simple IDE drives " . Can we install cluster on these IDE drives ? Can some one guide me regarding this and can provide any documentation on this Clustering? Please also describe Quorum disk for me ? -- Thanks and Regards, Shorabh S. Upadhyay Engineer - Exchange Server Support Progressive Infotech (P) Ltd. # +91-9891535899 -- Thanks and Regards, Shorabh S. Upadhyay Engineer - Exchange Server Support Progressive Infotech (P) Ltd. # +91-9891535899