Re: Adding Nodes   

On Oct 10, 5:38 pm, "Russ Kaufmann [MVP]" 
wrote:
> "Rick"  wrote in message
>
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> > Have existing E3K 2 node A/P cluster, I want to add two more nodes.
> > What are the steps I need to take. Would I , Install OS, Add to shared
> > resources, create two new cluster groups, install Exchange on nodes,
> > add nodes to cluster.
>
> 1. Build the hardware, get it all connected.
> 2. Install the OS, get the network stuff configured and talking.
> 3. Configure the cluster, add the nodes
> 4. Install the application.
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Russ,
I have one Group for all my Exchange resources now, because I'm adding
two more nodes I need to add two more groups, correct?(I need one more
node then I have groups, right?). my first network name is EVS01, I
will then create two more groups,  one has a network name resource
EVS02 and the other EVS03. I then add the nodes to the cluster, then
when I install Exchange on Node 3 and 4, I would assign them to the
groups with the network name of EVS02 and EVS03 respectfully? i also
have three SG's in the one node now and want to move each SG to it's
own node. Is that just a matter of moving the disk resources to each
of it's own cluster groups? One more thing, I'm reading that a
Exchange cluster node can only hold one instance of Exchange, so If I
have one node fail , I'm good, but if two fail, the second one has no
where to fail over, correct? would I need to add more passive nodes to
cover this option?

thanks again
Rick

date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 18:58:28 -0000   author:   Rick