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. |
