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How to Move a Storage Group in a Cluster Continuous Replication Environment

by Aaron Parker on May 30, 2007

in Exchange

TechNet has an article on moving the database and log file paths for a Storage Group in an Exchange cluster running in a Cluster Continuous Replication environment, however it’s missing a couple of steps which are fairly important to the process.
If you attempt to move the database or log file locations on a clustered Exchange [...]

Tagged as: Cluster, Exchange, PowerShell

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Diary of an Exchange 2007 Upgrade: Part 4

by Aaron Parker on May 29, 2007

in Exchange

Dear Diary,
I’ve fixed the issue I was having with the Majority Node Set cluster – it pays to check your information against more than one source. This particular issue was caused by disabling Client for Microsoft Networks and File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks on the heartbeat/private network adapater on each node in the cluster.
You [...]

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Diary of an Exchange 2007 Upgrade: Part 3

by Aaron Parker on May 24, 2007

in Exchange

Dear Diary,
Things will be quiet on the Exchange front for the next few days as I’m delivering ISA Server training to some of the other engineers, but I’ll be back into Exchange on Monday.
On Exchange though, I’ve been having some issues getting the cluster up and running. I’m using a Majority Node Set cluster with a [...]

Tagged as: Cluster, Exchange

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Link: Microsoft Cluster Configuration Validation Wizard

by Aaron Parker on February 7, 2007

in Off-Site News

Microsoft have release a new tool, ClusPrep, for testing your servers readiness before you create a cluster to run things like Exchange and SQL:
The Microsoft Cluster Configuration Validation Wizard, a.k.a. “ClusPrep”, is a validation tool that does a complete system inventory and runs focused tests on servers that are configured and ready for Microsoft Server [...]

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Windows Clustering in VMware Workstation 5

by Aaron Parker on August 25, 2006

in Virtualisation

Truly geeky people will appreciate the ability to run their mailbox on their very own Exchange cluster running on their laptop. Not quite high availability but high on a list of silly things to do. Here’s how to create a cluser in VMware Workstation:
1. Create a new guest virtual machine with the following settings:

Hardware

RAM: 320Mb
HDD0: [...]

Tagged as: Cluster, VMware

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