Installing a Cluster on Windows Server 2008

Installing a Cluster on Windows Server 2008

1. Select 'Add Features' from Server manager.



2. Select 'Failover Clustering'


3. Complete the Install



Setup 'Failover Clustering'

1. Select 'Failover Cluster Management' from Administrative Tools.



2. Select 'Validate a configuration'





3. Select all nodes that are participating in the Cluster. click 'Browse' to select nodes.





4. Complete the Validation.









5. Select 'Create a Cluster'




6. Clik 'Browse' to select all the nodes that are going to participate in the new Cluster







7. type the a name for the new cluster under 'Cluster Name'
Type an IP Address for the new Cluster under 'Address'


8. complete the install.










Moving the 'Cluster Group to another Node'


Since the GUI does not allow to move the 'Cluster Group' into the other node,
select command prompt and type the following command to mvoe the group
to another NODE.





Last Modified July 13 2010.

Multipathing(MPIO) Support in Windows Server 2008

A growing number of organizations require that their data be available 24x7, year round. To meet this requirement, centralized storage must be readily available and immune to outages at all times .The Microsoft Multipath I/O (MPIO) framework provides support for multiple data paths to storage to improve fault tolerance of connection to storage, and may in some cases provide greater aggregate throughput by using multiple paths at the same time:

Installing MPIO on Windows 2008:

From 'Server Manager', select 'Add Features'




Select 'Multipath I/O'







To configure MPIO for your Storage, Select MPIO from 'Administrative tools'



Specify the Device HW id for your Storage
(For this Example we are using the 3PAR Storage)





Configure the Load Balance policy for a LUN:

MPIO LUN load balancing is integrated with Disk Management. To configure MPIO LUN load balancing, start the Disk Management. Right click on the disk, then properties




Select the 'MPIO' tab




Change the 'Load Balance Policy' from 'Fail Over Only' to 'Round Robin'



Click OK to finish.



More details of MPIO on Windows:

http://download.microsoft.com/download/3/0/4/304083F1-11E7-44D9-92B9-2F3CDBF01048/MPIO.doc


Last Modified : 7th July 2010