Comments on: Setup Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 Failover Cluster in VMware Workstation

By: Stephen

Stephen — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:30:49 +0000

Dear All

At last all trouble I have been facing are no longer. This article I can say is a Heaven sent. One quick question I have. Will me required to have Exchange server 2007 Enterprise to be able to set up Cluster environment for exchange at this stage. As of now I have exchange 2007 Standard. Will it support this cluster mode I’m envisioning.

Thanks

By: Clayton

Clayton — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:29:27 +0000

I have worked this using FreeNAS 8 as well, and works wonderful, but I do have a question for the masses.

I have run into the same situation where instead of using the 500mb quorum drive for cluster configuration it stole one of the 2GB drives. Surfing through all the options I have not found the method of adjusting the drives for the clustering configurations.

The only way I have found around this is to connect to only the quorum drive first, create the cluster without an storage drives. Afterwards, connecting to each of the remote drives and then added them as storage to the cluster. Just seeing if this is the only way to accomplish this or is there a proper work around internally within the cluster management console.

By: Jem

Jem — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:01:56 +0000

Great post, Just set this up using Virtual Box and it’s working a treat. Needed to test a 2008 cluster migration to a new domain and having a virtual environment setup has saved me a lot of grief.

Cheers!

By: Ravi

Ravi — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 09:39:32 +0000

Hi,

I just tried out free NAS configuration and 2008 cluster build and its working fine, thank you for your post, its really awesome

By: C.Mohan @ broadcast-engineers.com

C.Mohan @ broadcast-engineers.com — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 18:26:46 +0000

Very amazing details which ever seen .. I like your style of posting dear .. Microsoft windows 2008 related questions and answers will motivate for getting more knowledge .. keep Posting with good articles

By: Irfan Pathan

Irfan Pathan — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 07:31:27 +0000

Thank you so much creating this wonderful article, I will certainly try this cluster layout using vmware.

By: Farshad

Farshad — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 03:52:44 +0000

hi Dinesh
Thanks for your great article I Have problem joining two cluster,
validation process has no error.

An error occurred while creating the cluster.
An error occurred creating cluster ‘Vlab2′.
This operation returned because the timeout period expired

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 10:06:54 +0000

Dear
In step 8 when connect clus2 server to starwind server, iSCSI INITIATOR show “server unavailable” message and don’t connected to starwind. plz help me?

By: trruthh

trruthh — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 10:50:13 +0000

Very Nice article, perhaps I would name it as a SOP – Std. Operating Procedure.

Thanks, much appreciated !

By: itsky

itsky — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 22:34:20 +0000

Thanks so much for this write-up! It’s a life saver.