Troubles Clustering Windows 2003
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009Troubles Clustering Windows 2003
This article isn’t from Microsoft, it’s from in-the-field technicians that work with clusters in real world situations. At Phoenix Synergy we are contacted regularly to help local businesses (small and large) with any clustering help they may need. In this case the customer had 7 Windows 2003 Dell servers, each with the standard Dual подбор ноутбука Broadcom NIC that comes with 1-U servers these days. As you know those network interfaces can be “Teamed” to form a single interface. The client wants to make their existing production environment as fault tolerant as possible. These 7 new servers are new and are setup in a lab environment. Each running Windows 2003 standard.
What do we have to work with:
They have two dedicated Domain Controllers for Active Directory, they are running the DNS for these холодильники for both internal and external name resolution. Their domains zone records will be hosted here, they will become ns1 and ns2.
They have web two servers, and three complus servers. Later they will implement their SQL Clusters, but we wont get into that here.
So far it’s a straight forward configuration. They want to have the NIC’s teamed, having NIC1 from each server plugged into switch-1, and NIC2 plugged into switch-2. Allowing for a switch to fail. They will have a cross-over cable between the two switches allowing either NIC to fail. Each switch will be plugged into it’s own Firewall/Router, but the Gateway on each server will be set to
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