April 2009 - Posts
A question that I often see come up is how many network ports should I have in my clustered nodes and how should I use them. I generally see three different hardware configurations: Two network ports. Usually 2 onboard or 1 onboard / 1 add-on. Three network
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With the enhancements in Windows 2008 to allow for multi-subnet clustering it is becoming more common to see this utilized with Exchange 2007 SP1 installations. When implementing a clustered solution, it is a requirement that there be a minimum
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With Exchange 2007 Cluster Continuous Replication clusters the recommended quorum type for the host cluster is Majority Node Set with File Share Witness (Windows 2003) or Node Majority and File Share Witness (Windows 2008). In this blog post I want to
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There are times where cluster setup operations fail during the active clustered mailbox server installation. Depending on where the failure occurred, when reviewing the resources in cluster administrator, it may appear that setup has fully completed.
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This question has seem to come up a lot lately, and since I have an opinion on it I figured it’s time to blog it. When you run Exchange setup for the first time we will always create a default storage group and default mailbox database (also depending
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