Creating fileserver in this cluster environment

[txtraz]

Dear All Guru's,
I've configured Cluster on windows server 2003 it's working fine and also shared storage disk for sharing file. Now i want to configure fileserver in this cluster environment. please help me in this regards;

Thanks;

[Pieter 't Hart · Accepted solution]

basically you would put in a cluster-group containing the resources :
- shared disk
- network name
- ip adress
- fileshare
see attachment
make networkname dependant on ip-address
make share dependant on networkname + disk
(this influences the order of bringing resources online.)

when you don't create a new group all resources end up in the default "cluster-group". I would suggest creating extra groups each with it's own networkname like FS1, FS2, instead of using the clustername.

when you got two of these groups (need separate resources) you can have one group primarely serviced by node-1 and the other by node-2.
when a node is down the group's resources will fail over to the other node.

for each group it's a active/passive situation, but both nodes can be active for a different group.

[txtraz]

I'm new in this. Can you please clear me a little bit.

I've addded the shared storage disk (2TB) on cluster group. When i'm moving group from node1 then all the environment is shifted to node (Shared Storage disk take some times to shift on node2).

I want to configure a file share from the shared storage disk environment.

Please help me in this regards ASAP.

Thanks;

[Pieter 't Hart]

The default cluster group contains the custer name and ip-adress and the quorum disk. They are dependant on eachother.
If you move one item from this group, the whole group and all of its resources will be moved to the other node.

So when adding resources to the cluster, think in groups with resources that should be active together on the same node.

As I explained in my previous post.
first create a new cluster-group apart from this default group.
move your disk to this new group.
etc.

don't use the default cluster-goup for this.