Windows 2003 Clustering Need help

[Gan Seng Leng]

Mar 14, 2006 02:42:02 GMT

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hi, i have setup a 2 node cluster in my domain, i have tested that i can failover my cluster successfully but if i open a remote connection to my virtual ip and open a text file, when cluster failed over my connection will be lose and i have to relogin the connection and the file i previously open will not be shown, that mean my applications will be not restored back to orginal state when cluster failover?

Is this correct?

Please help Thanks

[Stephen Kebbell]

Hi,

are you opening a Remote Desktop connection to the cluster IP? That's not really a proper test.
If so, you are actually opening an RDP connection to the node where the cluster service is running. When you failover, the Virtual IP will be temporarily offline, and when it's online again you will be on the 2nd node with your remote desktop, so you won't see the text file.

Try creating a File Share resource in your cluster. Then access this file share from your PC, start a copy job to it (maybe in a loop), then try a failover. It will halt for a while, then continue copying.

Regards,
Stephen