How do I set up the storage for the cluster?
I am trying to build a cluster for to stand up a exchange 2007 server. I've never played with clustering and am having some issues. Most articles that I can find have to do with using a SAN. I don't have one and will be using local SAS drives as the storage. The question I have is, How do I set up the storage? My configuration is: I have two dell poweredge 2950's and 1 dell poweredge 1950. The 2950's will be the cluster with the exchange server and the 1950 will be the hub. I have 300 gigs available in raid 5 on the 2950's. I have loaded windows 2008 enterprise on the 2950's and 2008 standard on the 1950. I've installed the failover cluster feature and was able to add my two machine to make my cluster. The validation fails on the storage portion but thats because I can't seem to create or setup the storage that it needs.
Can someone give me some hints as to what I may be doing wrong?
Thanks
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- You can find the CCR on Window Server 2008 version here:
http://www.msexchange.org/articles_tutorials/exchange-server-2007/high-availability-recovery/deploying-exchange-2007-sp1-ccr-cluster-windows-server-2008-failover-cluster-part1.html
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- Thank's for answering so quickly, As i look at the site you linked just want to make sure of something, it references clustering on 2003 box, is it pretty much the same for 2008 at it is for 2003?
- You can find the CCR on Window Server 2008 version here:
http://www.msexchange.org/articles_tutorials/exchange-server-2007/high-availability-recovery/deploying-exchange-2007-sp1-ccr-cluster-windows-server-2008-failover-cluster-part1.html
Henrik Walther Exchange MVP | MCM: E2K7 | MCITP: EMA/EA | MCSE: M+S - MSExchange.org- Unproposed As Answer byJames Hinkle Thursday, February 05, 2009 4:39 PM
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- Thank you for the link, This is very very helpfull and has showed me a multitude of things I missed. Not sure If i can continue asking questions on this thread but hopefully I will be told yes or pointed to the correct place. As I go through the walkthrough for installing the CCR Cluster it says to do the MKDIR FSM_DIR_MBX to create the dir. We bought the two machines with 3 300 gig SAS drives on raid five and had planned on using that space to store the database and let the CCR bounce to the other machine for logs. When I created the MKDIR FSM_DIR_MBX on the D drive on exch01, it says to run the NET SHARE FSM_MBX=C:\FSM_DIR_MBX /GRANT:CCRCLUSTER$,FULL command which looks like it is trying to share out the directory and grant perms to the ccrcluster? The command keeps failing with error 1332 saying that no mapping between account names and security ID's were done. I don't seem to find the CCRCLUSTER account neither local or on the domain. Was it suppose to be created during install?
- Dear James, I know it is a little late for the answer, but I had the same question 10 minutes ago :-D, and maybe somebody else will have sometime. The CCRCLUSTER$ machine account is for use on the tutorial, but in your case you should use the name you gave to your cluster. In the tutorial, the name of the cluster is CCRCLUSTER, so the name of the machine account is that. Greetings.
