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Renaming the Local Area Network Interface on Each Node . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Configuring the Private Network Adapter on Each Node . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Configuring the Binding Order Networks on Each Node . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Configuring the Public Network Adapter on Each Node. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Configuring the Cluster Shared-Storage RAID Disks on Each Node. . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Configuring the Cluster Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Joining Both Servers to the Active Directory Domain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Installing the Failover Clustering Feature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Creating the Cluster Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Renaming the Cluster Networks in the Failover Cluster Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Renaming Cluster Disk 1 and Deleting the Remaining Cluster Disks . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Adding a Second IP Address to the Cluster. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Testing the Cluster Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Chapter 3 Installing the Interplay | Engine for a Failover Cluster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Disabling Any Web Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Installing the Interplay | Engine on the First Node . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Preparation for Installing on the First Node . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Bringing the Shared Database Drive Online . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Starting the Installation and Accepting the License Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Installing the Interplay | Engine Using Custom Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Checking the Status of the Resource Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Creating the Database Share Manually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Adding a Second IP Address (Dual-Connected Configuration) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Changing the Resource Name of the Avid Workgroup Server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Installing the Interplay | Engine on the Second Node . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Bringing the Interplay | Engine Online. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
After Installing the Interplay | Engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Creating an Interplay | Production Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Testing the Complete Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Installing a Permanent License . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Updating a Clustered Installation (Rolling Upgrade) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Uninstalling the Interplay | Engine on a Clustered System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Chapter 4 Automatic Server Failover Tips and Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114