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How to Format an
Existing Partition on a Shared Cluster Hard
Disk
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 257937 - This
article describes how to format an existing
hard disk or partition on a shared cluster hard
disk or partition. You may need to do this if
there is NTFS file system damage on a cluster
hard disk resource that the chkdsk command cannot
repair, or if you want to reformat a partition
to start with a known good file system state
and known good data.
How to Manually Re-Create
the Cluster Service Account
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 269229 - During
the installation process for Microsoft Cluster
Server (MSCS), the specified domain account
is granted rights that are necessary for the
Cluster service to function correctly. If you
ever need to change or re-create the account,
you must manually grant these rights back to
the domain account that is used to start the
Cluster service.
How
to Replace a Disk That Is on a Windows 2000
or a Windows 2003 Server Cluster
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 305793 - This
article discusses how to replace a shared hard
disk that is on a Microsoft Windows Server 2003
or a Windows 2000 server cluster.
How to Set the Startup
Value for a Resource on a Clustered Server
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 259243 - By
default, when the Cluster service starts or
when failover occurs, the Cluster service attempts
to bring all groups and resources online. For
management or troubleshooting purposes, you
may want to prevent a particular group or resource
from starting automatically. You can define
the state of a group or resource as either offline
or online by setting its "persistent state"
value in the cluster registry hive.
How the Cluster Service
Takes Ownership of a Disk on the Shared Bus
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article
Q309186 - This article describes some of the
small computer system interface (SCSI - commands
and the Challenge/Defense protocol that are
used to maintain and gain control of the shared
disks on a server cluster.
How WINS Functions
on a Cluster Server
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 290880 - This
article describes how WINS functions on a cluster
server.
Print Spooler Support on Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
Cluster
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 228904 - You
can use Microsoft Cluster Server to create and
host print server functionality. The configuration
steps are improved in Windows 2000, compared
to how the configuration is performed in Microsoft
Windows NT Server 4.0, Enterprise Edition.
Reparse Point Support
in Windows 2000-Based Clusters
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 262797 - Describes
the reparse points (also referred to as junction
points) that are supported in Windows 2000-based
clusters and issues that may result from their
use.
Security Considerations
When Implementing Clustered File Shares
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 254219 - This
article describes how to administer file share
security in Windows 2000 clustering, and to
a limited extent Windows NT 4.0 Enterprise Server.
Support for Multiple
Clusters Attached to the Same SAN Device
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 304415 - A
single cluster can be qualified and placed on
the Microsoft Hardware Compatibility List (HCL
- by using Fiber Channel storage interconnects
and switch technology, and there are many examples
of complete configurations on the HCL.
Support for a Single
Server Cluster That Is Attached to Multiple
Storage Area Networks (SANs)
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article This article
describes support for a single server cluster
that is connected to multiple storage units.
Microsoft qualifies a server cluster and includes
it on the Microsoft Hardware Compatibility List
(HCL) if the cluster uses small computer system
interface (SCSI) technology, Fiber Channel technology,
and Switched Fabric technology. There are many
examples of such complete configurations on
the HCL. However, the HCL includes only single
configurations that contain a set of cluster
nodes with a single storage controller.
Storage Area Networks (SANs) that use Switched
Fabric technologies offer storage consolidation
and storage as a utility. In this type of environment,
the storage infrastructure may contain different
storage controller devices with different characteristics
or guarantees or may increase over time and
include storage controllers from various vendors
or suppliers..
Technical
Overview: Clustering and Windows NT Load Balancing
Service (WLBS)
Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0, Enterprise
Edition offers uninterrupted service for mission-critical
applications, a reduction in costs and high
performance for demanding applications.
The Default Behavior
When You Do a Move Group Operation on a Cluster
with More Than Two Nodes
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 279802 - This
article discusses the default behavior when
you use Cluster Administrator to do a Move Group
operation on a cluster with more than two nodes.
Using
WINS and DHCP on Microsoft Windows 2000 Clusters:
Tuesday, February 29, 2000
Microsoft Support WebCast Focuses on a new feature
of clustering in Windows 2000, namely the support
of the WINS and DHCP services on a Windows 2000
cluster. The presentation describes how to install
and configure these services for use on a Windows
2000 cluster.
Using WINS and DHCP with the Windows 2000 Cluster Service
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 226796 - Windows
2000 support the ability to cluster the Dynamic
Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) and Windows
Internet Name Service (WINS) services. This
article describes how to configure WINS and
DHCP with Windows Clustering.
Windows Clustering
and Geographically Separate Sites
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 280743 - You
can create many geographically-distributed solutions
by adding data-replication software and extended
Local Area Network (LAN) hardware to existing,
already certified configurations. However, these
solutions radically change the nature of a pre-certified
configuration particularly in respect to timing
and latency. Microsoft therefore requires that
both the hardware and software configuration
of a geographically-dispersed cluster be certified
and listed on the cluster Hardware Compatibility
List (HCL) before they will be supported by
Microsoft.
Windows 2000 Cluster
Nodes as Domain Controllers
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 281662 - The
information in this article addresses a situation
that you do not generally encounter in most
Information Technology architectures.
Windows 2000 Interoperability
Between MSCS and NLB
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 235305 - Network
Load Balancing (NLB) has the same feature set
as Windows Load Balancing Service (WLBS) in
Microsoft Windows NT 4.0. It provides the ability
to distribute network client load across up
to 32 nodes in a cluster.
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