Re: Adding Nodes   

On Oct 11, 3:23 pm, "Russ Kaufmann [MVP]" 
wrote:
> "Rick"  wrote in message
>
> news:1192129108.871086.250260@19g2000hsx.googlegroups.com...
>
> > 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?).
>
> You have to have at least one passive node, so yes. You will need to create
> two new cluster groups with their own IP, Name, Physical Disks, etc...
>
> >  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?
>
> No. You will need to get the new cluster groups up and running and then you
> can move users from one storage group to another on the new EVS. Exchange
> 2003 does not support database portability like Exchange 2007 does.
>
> > 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?
>
> Yes, you understand that right.
>
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So are the disk resources tied to the cluster group for the life of
the group within the cluster?

Rick

date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 22:41:24 -0000   author:   Rick