RE: Exchange Cluster Question
- From: A P <ermitanyo@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "[ExchangeList]" <exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 11:39:51 -0800
You need to download the following docs from MS
Exchange Server 2003 High Availability Guide - more of an overview and
planning guide, includes a section for clustering
Exchange Server 2003 Deployment Guide - helpful section on clustering with
deployment steps
And yes, the MSDTC resource does not need to be in a separate resource
group. Best practice recommendation from MS is to place it in the default
cluster group. This is a recommendation for Exchange.
As for the shared drives, you will have 1 for the quorum, and separate other
SAN volumes for the Exchange SMTP queue, databases, and logs. If you
configured the other volumes in the cluster group, you should be able to
create a new group and move these disk over.
As for more details, all of the information that you need should be in the
HA or deployment guide. Just do a google search and you will find these
documents. Unfortunately, my bookmarks for these are now invalid. Seems
like the URLs for these docs within the MS web site changed.
Once you get the hang of the cluster setup, it is an easy exercise.
Good luck!
Arden
On 12/7/05, ChongJa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <ChongJa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > wrote:
>
> http://www.MSExchange.org/ <http://www.msexchange.org/>
>
> For Exchange you don't really need to move the msdtc to a separate
> resource. It's really only for SQL clusters. Theres KB articles on this
> if you research.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Medeiros, Jose [mailto:jmedeiros@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 1:55 PM
> To: [ExchangeList]
> Subject: [exchangelist] RE: Exchange Cluster Question
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>
> Hi Jeffrey,
>
> Good job on getting it installed. Yes, the documentation is a little
> difficult to follow when it comes to an Exchange 2000 /2003 clusters.
> The resource I used when I built a Exchange 2000 Cluster using a HP 500
> MSA Storage Array, was a book by Bill English & Walter Glenn on Exchange
> 2000. It has a chapter that covers how to configure Exchange 2000
> Clusters.
> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0735609381/qid=1133981171/sr=1-1/ref=sr
> _1_1/103-5121435-9831000?s=books&v=glance&n=283155 &
>
> However his current book on Exchange 2003 does not cover clustering.
> When I wrote him and asked why he left out that section he replied that
> it was not a common installation and suggested I use Microsoft's White
> papers.
>
> Someone else on the list may have a better resource.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Sincerely,
> Jose Medeiros
> ADP | National Account Services
> ProBusiness Division | Information Services
> 925.737.7967 | 408-449-6621 CELL
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeffrey Moscone [mailto: jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 7:24 AM
> To: Medeiros, Jose
> Subject: Exchange Cluster Question
>
>
> Hello Jose,
> Thanks for pointing me in the right direction with using iSCSI to build
> a Microsoft Windows 2003 Server using a Snap Server. I've successfully
> completed that process and am now stuck on building of the Exchange
> resources. Some documentation out there is conflicting stating that you
> need a separate default Cluster Group (IP, name, storage), MSDTC Group
> (IP, name, storage), and the Exchange Virtual Server Group (IP, name,
> storage) and some that state you don't. I've configured the default
> Cluster Group with a name, IP and dedicated storage, and also added the
> MSDTC Resource to the default group. When I attempted to created a
> separate group for MSDTC I couldn't move the physical disk as one
> document suggested that I do. So, (take a breathe, sorry for the verbose
> email) now I'm at the last step to create the Virtual Server (as a
> separate group I assume) and it is going to require a physical disk. Is
> this correct? If so, how do you assign the physical storage if it is
> already part of the default group?
> Also, when I installed Exchange & Service Packs on both servers they
> don't appear in the ESM nor are the services started. Maybe this is
> normal?
> Thanks for your help in advance. I've read a lot about this, but nothing
> definitive enough complete the setup process.
>
> Jeff
>
> Jeffrey Moscone
> jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> www.mosconeusa.com
> 415.637.2831
>
>
>
>
>
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