Installation guide

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Installation Cluster Service Installation
Ê Create partitions via Disk Manager:
Choose appropriate drive letters.
It’s recommended to use Q for the Quorum disk and start from Z going
backwards for the other logical drives. So, if there is a Quorum drive and 3
other partitions, the other logical drives would be Z, Y and X. To make things
easier to track, label the volume with an intuitive name or the drive letter. This
will help later when making sure the second node has the same drive letters
for each partition.
Ê Restart Node 1 and allow the system to boot into Windows 2000.
Ê Install Windows 2000 Advanced Server and Storage Manager on Node 1.
Use Dcpromo.exe after the OS is installed to promote a W2K server to a DC.
Ê Ensure that Node 1 recognizes the network and sees all the nodes and the
Domain.
Ê Shutdown and Power Off Node 1, Power On and Boot Node 2. Use the same
drive letters as Node 1 for the RAIDs via Disk Manager.
Ê Install Windows 2000 Advanced Server and Storage Manager on Node 2.
Ê Verify the Cluster by using Clusteradmin
How does the Cluster Service work
When MSCS is operating on a server cluster, the servers continuously send a
heartbeat to each other across the private network connection. When a server
does not receive this signal for a preset interval, it automatically begins the
failover process of providing the resources of the failed server and takes control
of the storage subsystem.
When the transfer is complete, the failed server remains offline until the problem
that caused the failure is corrected. When the failed server is restored, MSCS
can initiate a
failback operation so that the second server releases its control of
the other server’s resources and the previously failed server begins servicing
client requests for its assigned resources.