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Exchange 2007 CCR Cluster - NICs
Exchange 2007 CCR Cluster - NICs
- I have setup Exchange 2007 CCR on Windows server 2008 and the 2 sites are geographically-dispersed. The 2 sites are in the same AD Site but they have different subnets. Then I go to Failover Cluster Management and highlight my instance of Exchange cluster under Services and Applications, I see that the passive node's IP is Offline for the clustername. My question is: is this normal?
The reason I ask is because when I run "test-replicationhealth -MonitoringContext:$true" for the ClusterNetwork I get warning that the passive node does not have Public & Private NIC configured.
Any help would be appreciated.
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- No this is not normal in Geo CLuster scenario. Check the Public IP and the Heart Beat NIC on the passive node.
Raj - Check wheter, hearbet is up....anyway if the public NIC is down and heabeat is operational, cluster node will appear as Online...so check the hearbeat NIC on both nodes are up and check that the NICS are configure accordign to the role they are performing.. finally as this is a geo-disperse cluster check that your wan is up.
Hope this help.
Capecol MCSA - MCTS Exchange Server 2007 - The info I've seen says this is normal... well, a bug in the cmdlet.
http://blogs.technet.com/timmcmic/archive/2009/02/24/errors-with-test-replicationhealth-when-using-a-multi-subnet-windows-2008-cluster.aspx
Was supposed to have been fixed in Exchange 2007 SP2 but apparently was not.
Wish I could find a kb article though :/ - The same issue in my sinerio in the failover cluster management the passive node shows offline. I think its seems to be normal with different subnets
Thani
