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Chapter 13 Configuring Clustering on Windows Hosts
4FormatbothsharedvirtualdiskswithNTFSiftheyarenotalreadyformatted.
5AssignthefirstshareddisktoQ:(quorum)andtheseconddisktoR:(data).
IfyouhavejoinedthisvirtualmachinetoanexistingActiveDirectorydomain,skip
toStep 10.
6Rundcpromo.exefromthecommandprompttostart
theActiveDirectorywizard.
7Setupthecurrentmachineasadomaincontroller.Forthedomainname,use
somethingsimilarto<vmcluster>.<domain.com>where<domain.com>isyour
DNSdomainand<vmcluster>isyourActiveDirectorydomain.
Youcansetupthisnodeasanewdomaintreeoranewdomainforest,
orjoinitto
anexistingdomaintreeorforest.
8MakesurethattheDNSserverisinstalled.
9Setthedomainpermissionsasmixedmodeunlessyouhaveotherrequirements.
10 Toaddaclusterservicesaccountinthedomain,choosePrograms>
AdministrativeTools>ActiveDirectoryUsersandComputers.
11 Adda
clusterserviceaccountnamedcluster,andspecifythefollowing:
Userpassword
SelectUsercannotchangepassword
SelectPasswordneverexpires
12 InserttheWindowsCDintheCDROMdrive.
13 ChooseControlPanel>Add/RemovePrograms.
14 SelectAdd/RemoveWindowsComponents.
15 SelecttheClusterServicecomponent.
16 ClickNextandfollowthepromptstoinstalltheservice.
17 Toconfiguretheclusterservice,chooseFormaNewClusterandspecifythe
following:
SQLCLUSTERastheclustername.
TheclusterserviceaccountcreatedinStep 11.
Bothshareddisksaremanagedbytheclusterservice.