Best Practices for
Drive-Letter Assignments on a Server Cluster
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 318534 - This
article describes best practices for assigning
drive letters to disks on the shared bus on a
server cluster. Cluster Service Startup
Options
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 258078 - This
is a list of all the available switches that
can be used as startup parameters to start the
Cluster service.
Clustering Information
on IP Address Failover
Q168567 Microsoft Cluster Server (MSCS) provides
the ability to define an IP address resource
within a cluster, and for it to failover from
one node to another.
How to Change Quorum
Disk Designation
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 280353 - This
article explains the quorum disk resource in
Windows Clustering, and describes how to change
the drive for the quorum device.
How to Configure
Clustered IIS Virtual Servers on Windows 2000
Advanced Server
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 248025 - This
article describes how to configure Internet
Information Server (IIS) virtual servers on
Windows 2000 Advanced Server cluster nodes.
How to Configure
Event Log Replication in Windows 2000 Cluster
Servers
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 224969 -
By default, when Clustering is installed on
Windows 2000 Advanced Server or Windows 2000
Datacenter servers, events that are logged in
the event log of one node in the cluster are
also shown in the event log of the other nodes.
How to Configure
the SMTP Resource on a Windows 2000-Based Server
Cluster
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 280400 - This
article describes how to install, and configure
the SMTP resource from Internet Information
Server (IIS) 5.0 to use with Microsoft Cluster
Server (MSCS).
How to Extend the
Disk Space of an Existing Shared Disk with Windows
Clustering
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 263590 - This
article discusses how to extend the disk space
of a hardware-defined disk with Windows Clustering.
If you add additional space to an existing cluster
server disk at the hardware level, you must
perform additional steps to ensure that the
computer system recognizes this additional disk
space.
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 have 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. To do this, you may have
to format one or all the existing shared hard
disks, including the quorum hard disk. In Windows
2000, if a program or service has an open file,
you cannot format the hard disk where the file
is open. You cannot format the quorum hard disk
when the Cluster service is running.
How to Install BizTalk
2000 on Microsoft Cluster Server
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 303121 - This
article describes how to cluster BizTalk 2000
on a clean configuration. There are many components
to BizTalk, and you can implement these in several
different ways.
How to Install Service
Packs in a Cluster
Microsoft TechNet article Q174799 - The original
Microsoft Cluster Server (MSCS) product ships
with NT 4.0 Server Enterprise Edition and Service
Pack 3 on the first CD-ROM, however you may
want to apply later service packs as they are
released for fixes or improvements.
How to Migrate a
Dfs Root Configuration to a Windows 2000 Cluster
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 224508 - Windows
2000 Advanced Server and Datacenter Server use
server clustering and provide cluster failover
capabilities for a standard Distributed File
System (Dfs) root.
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..
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
Implementing Home
Folders on a Server Cluster
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 256926 - This
article describes the basic procedure for sharing
home folders on a shared disk on a cluster.
Installing
MTS and MSMQ in a Clustered Environment
Learn about applications accessing Microsoft
Message Queue Server (MSMQ) or Microsoft Transaction
Server (MTS) running in a clustered environment.
By Andrew Samuelson. Source: Windows &
NET Magazine (Aug 1999)
Installing the Time
Service Resource for Windows Clustering in a
Windows NT Domain
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 279005 - When
you are using Windows 2000 in a Windows NT 4.0
domain, if you are using Windows Clustering,
you must install the Time Service resource.
This article describes how to install Windows
Clustering Time Service when you install Windows
2000
Quorum Drive Configuration
Information
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 280345 - This
article provides information about configuring
the quorum drive. When you install Microsoft
Cluster service, you must configure storage
at the hardware level so that the operating
system and Cluster service have two separate
physical devices for cluster usage.
Recommended Private
"Heartbeat" Configuration on a Cluster Server
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 258750 - To
eliminate possible communication issues, remove
all unnecessary network traffic from the network
adapter that is set to Internal Cluster communications
only (this adapter is also known as the
heartbeat or private network adapter). Clustering
communicates by using Remote Procedure Call
(RPC) calls on IP sockets with User Datagram
Protocol (UDP) packets.
Recommend WINS Configuration
for Microsoft Cluster Server
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 193890 - A
Microsoft Cluster Server (MSCS) with the Windows
Internet Name Service (WINS) running may have
intermittent connectivity problems with clients
on remote networks. This is because the cluster
network interface card (NIC) is bound to the
WINS
Windows Clustering Technologies - NLB Configuration
Best Practices
This document provides Network Load Balancing
requirements and best practices for Microsoft©
Windows? 2000 or Windows .NET server. Requirements
must hold for the NLB cluster to function correctly.
Best practices are suggestions based on deployment
feedback and issues seen in the field.
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