Threads Replies Last Post 11 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11   Cluster for printers Hello, Impression for 10.000 people/200 printers by server. Which design is recommended in order to guarantee the availability ? If a driver crash, driver doesn't penalize all the server. The difficulty today is to set up a strong, and powerful architecture/making it possible to find, isolate a problem from driver causes of unavailability. Do you know a URL ? Many thanks to you for... 3 25.06.2007 13:26:28 Do you have a kb on adding a DC to replicate AD for a geographically Does any one have suggestions on how to setup domain, DNS and AD on second Windows 2003 DC in another building for replicating AD for a 2 geographically dispersed Exchange 2007 cluster servers?... 4 24.06.2007 09:25:58 emulate 'network failure'... Hello NG, I have an two-node cluster (windows server 2003) and I try to emulate a network failure by removing the network cable at the public LAN-interface. If I remove the network cable on node A, the clustergroup don't swap to node B automatically. If I deactivate the public LAN-adpater (in 'My Network Places') the groups will swap. Is this correct and by design? Is there any docu... 5 23.06.2007 14:41:05 Clustering between Workgroups and Domains Hola Cluster Pro's ... My customer is re-deploying his application with 2k3 and SQL 2k5. The current production app is running on 2k SP4. In the production environment, there is a clustered file share which is backended by the SAN. We had to create local accounts on the loadbalanced webservers and on each cluster node. We configured the Share permissions to allow this local account t... 7 22.06.2007 20:27:00 Upgrading from 2000 to 2003 I want to upgrade Windows 2000 cluster to Windows 2003. I have File and Print cluster. 1. Evict one node 2. Install windows 2003 and join cluster Do I need to install printer driver on Windows 2003 before moving print spooler to Windows 2003 node or it will replicate from Windows 2000 node. 3. Evict 2nd node, install windows 2003 and join the cluster. Any recommendation or sugge... 2 22.06.2007 19:38:22 number of printers queues for cluster print server Hello, Do you know if there is a technical limit of the number of printers queues for a cluster print server. Many Thanks. ... 5 22.06.2007 13:38:59 System State Backup for Cluster Protection Hi again, For some reason, my post has gone, and I was in discussion with Rodney about a method of protecting the cluster setup. Current setup: 2 nodes named server1 and server2. they host Exchange 2003 and the virtual server name is MAIL1 I am going to do a system state backup to file and store this only tape outside our backup environment. I also have GHOST IMAGE of each node of the... 4 22.06.2007 13:16:46 Backup Ex2k3 Clustering - the Basics All Hi - hope your ok Got a 2-Node Ex2k3 Cluster - Backups done via NetBackup online agents. now, happy with this, and got no real problems. However, to cover my back, if something was to go REALLY REALLY bad with the cluster, is there an "easy" method to backup the cluster outside the realms of NetBackup or a CLI that can be run to backup or restore the configuration? Thanks, Simon ... 6 22.06.2007 13:14:05 Identify Virtual Server I inherited a SQL2005 cluster and while I'm experienced in managing SQL stand alone I have no experience in a cluster environment. I am trying to determine the cluster virtual server name, as opposed to instance, so I can make changes to the service start up configurations. I can't get the utility to recognize the cluster. How can I determine the proper name to reference? ... 6 22.06.2007 11:48:21 recovery quorum in cluster with w2003 enterprise Good morning, I need recovery my cluster of two nodes with w2003 enteprise, i can not start quorum. Thansk for all AJ ... 2 22.06.2007 11:41:44 MNS cluster (Exchange CCR) down for the count after reboot? I have a two node cluster with fileshare witness. The cluster was up and Exchange running properly. Both nodes did automatic updates and a reboot at the same time. Once back up, neither node will start the cluster service. I've tried /forcequorum with no success. I've tried /fixquorum and am able to bring every resource online except for the Majority Node Set resource. There must be a wa... 14 22.06.2007 02:27:43 Clustered File Server - Software Installation - GPO I am trying to deploy software thru a GPO using Software Installation. I have been using this method for quite sometime with no problem. Recently I built a clustered file server, using microsoft clustering, Win2K3 SP2, I started deploying software from this server this week. I first ran into the typical Kerberos Authentication problem. I checked the "Enable Kereros Authentication" check b... 2 21.06.2007 21:47:36 Clustered Print Spooler Question Hey all, i need some help with my 1st cluster setup... (2003 EE) Ive got an application installed and tested ok on the cluster. It receives files for printing from a UNIX server via FTP (this is working ok) it now prints these files to a local printer setup to LPR to a VPSX server for output mgt. That worked when i had the printer installed locally on the active node.. Then i thought i... 5 21.06.2007 18:30:09 Windows 2000 Cluster Service Account I need help with the following issue: due to PCI compliance we have to change all of our password to complex, I heard that using a complex password on a windows 2000 cluster service account can create a lot of problems. Is this true? and if it is, is there a work around so we can use complex passwords? The credit card industry is very specific on this issue and they will not compromise... 4 21.06.2007 16:11:51 Enabling network DTC on cluster I currently have a failover cluster setup (Windows 2003 and SQL 2005). When the cluster was installed Network DTC was not enabled. Hence, anytime you try to move the MSDTC group in the cluster, there are errors and it can't be failed over unless you reboot one node. The group is created as cluster resource according to MS documentation, except the Network DTC. Is it ok to enable now ... 5 21.06.2007 04:55:01 MAC Spoof? Flexlm Has anyone had any success with MSCS and Flexlm? Flexlm is typically bound to a physical NIC address which is registered via a vendor supplied license file. There's two ways I think I can make this work. Either I get two license files from the vendor, 1 for each cluster node, or I use software to spoof the MAC address on both cluster nodes. The software vendor may not appreciate the forme... 2 20.06.2007 17:24:42 Physical Disk online pending on a Windows 2003 Service Pack 1 cluster Does chkdsk run in a fixed mode for a physical disk when cluster server detects that it is a corrupt volume? If so does anyone know how long approx. it would take a for large volume. ... 7 20.06.2007 17:03:49 IIS on a Clustered box no Web farm Hi all, I'm new to clustering Are there any issues with hosting web application on the physical box that is part of the cluster architecture overview 2 dell boxes to host a clustered instance of sql server 2005 I want to host some web applications on one of the boxes I'm not interested in the web farm as yet Any issues with such an approach... 8 20.06.2007 15:37:38 How to move an Exchange 2003 server from one site to another / change of IP only Hello, Do you know if it is possible to move an Exchange 2003 server. We are planning to move an exchange 2003 mail store server between two different business sites, the server will still be in the same Domain, and exchange org, but will need the IP Address and subnet changing. I can find documentation that details how to change the IP Address of an exchange cluster, and how to mov... 4 20.06.2007 00:25:29 Format volumes in cluster - disk mgmt locked up I am trying to reconfigure some iscsi LUNS on my EMC NAS. I have a 2 node A/P cluster running Exchange 2003. I have 2 unused LUNS – 1 I want to remove (7 GB) and 1 (15 GB) I want to move Exchange logfiles to. When I viewed these disks from Disk MGMT it showed them as “unreadable” and viewing properties showed the file system as RAW. I figured they needed to be formatted so I di... 5 20.06.2007 00:22:28 Reset Administrator Password I'm needing to reset the administrator password on my servers. I have three servers in an active/passive configuration. Two of them are domain controlers. Is there anything in cluster administrator that I need to update or reset after I change the admin password? Or is there anything else I need to be aware of?? I've never changed my admin password. Thanks, Mark ... 7 19.06.2007 18:19:01 NLB Cluster name change We went live last week with a 2 node IIS NLB cluster on Widows 2003. It replaced a Win2K NLB. I realized today when looking over the settings that the cluster name wasn't changed from the test name to the final name. So the DNS name doesn't reflect the NLB name. Example: DNS Name: IISNLB.domainname NLB Name: IISNLBTEST.domainname I could not find any reference to tell me if... 4 19.06.2007 14:16:15 Error "Cluster File Share resource '...' has failed a status check." during defrag ################ ## ## I'm sorry! I posted this first to microsoft.public.windows.server.general, but this group should be better ## (http://groups.google.com/group/ microsoft.public.windows.server.general/browse_thread/thread/ 2709660b146dd0a1?hl=us) ## ################ I've got a Windows 2003 Cluster with 2 nodes. There are more than 15 file shares. Every night we do a defrag and ... 6 19.06.2007 12:04:27 Veritas Cluster Server Over NAS/SAN/DAS? Which is best? Veritas Cluster Server Over NAS/SAN/DAS? Which is best? So I'm looking to deploy Veritas Cluster Server, thats hands down .. The question though is over which hardware storage type. I was looking at a SAN, but some sources say that a NAS is cheaper and more flexible. Then while I was at it, I figured I'd ask about a DAS. I'm running a simple environment here. 2 servers per cluster is what... 3 19.06.2007 10:20:25 adding additional drives to existing cluster Hello, I currently have two Windows 2003 Servers SP2 running SQL 2000 clustered using a Dell PowerVault 220S disk array. The cluster is accessing a five drive 75 GB disk array. I would like to leave the currently configuration as is and add additional drives to the disk array and cluster. Is this an easy task? Any advice is greatly appreciated. I have creating a new volume in Array M... 3 19.06.2007 01:32:19 11 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11