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Specifically, this topic provides the following information:  Cluster Requirements This section discusses the necessary requirements for installing Exchange Server 2003, including Mic

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Deploying Exchange Server 2003 in a Cluster

After planning the cluster deployment strategy, correct deployment of that cluster ensures high availability of your servers that run Microsoft®

Exchange Server 2003 Although deploying Exchange in a cluster

resembles deploying Exchange in a non-clustered organization, there are important differences you must consider Therefore, to fully understand how to deploy Exchange Server 2003 in a cluster, read this topic together with the previous topics in this guide

Specifically, this topic provides the following information:

 Cluster Requirements

This section discusses the necessary requirements for installing

Exchange Server 2003, including Microsoft Windows® and Exchange version requirements, software requirements, and network configuration requirements

 Deployment Scenarios

This section includes the following configuration and procedural

information about how to deploy Exchange Server 2003 clusters:

 Four-node cluster scenario

Server 2003

 Migrating an Exchange Server 5.5 cluster to Exchange Server 2003

clusters

Before continuing with the deployment procedures listed in this topic, follow these steps:

 Read the section "Using Server Clusters" in the guide Planning an Exchange Server 2003 Messaging System

(http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=47584)

 Create a Windows 2000 Server or Microsoft Windows Server™ 2003 cluster To create a Windows 2000 or Windows Server 2003 cluster, see the following resources:

 Windows Server 2003 For information about how to create a

Windows Server 2003 cluster, see Checklist: Preparation for installing a

 Windows 2000 For information about how to create a

Windows 2000 cluster, see Step-by-Step Guide to Installing Cluster

Cluster Requirements

Before you deploy Exchange Server 2003 on a Windows 2000 Server or Windows Server 2003 cluster, make sure that your organization meets the requirements listed in this section

System-Wide Cluster Requirements

Before you deploy the Exchange Server 2003 cluster, make sure that the following system-wide requirements are met:

 Make sure that you are running Domain Name System (DNS) and Windows Internet Name Service (WINS) Ideally, the DNS server should accept dynamic updates If the DNS server does not accept dynamic updates, you must create a DNS Host (A) record for each Network Name resource in the cluster Otherwise, Exchange does not function correctly

For more about how to configure DNS for Exchange, see Microsoft

Knowledge Base article 322856, "HOW TO: Configure DNS for Use with Exchange Server"

(http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=3052&kbid=322856)

 If the cluster nodes belong to a directory naming service zone that has

a different name than the Microsoft Active Directory® directory service domain name that the computer joined, the DNSHostName, by default, does not include the subdomain name In this situation, you may have to change the DNSHostName property to make sure that some services, such as the File Replication Service (FRS), work correctly For more

information, see Microsoft Knowledge Base article 240942, "Active

Directory DNSHostName Property Does Not Include Subdomain"

(http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=3052&kbid=240942)

 All cluster nodes must be member servers in the same domain

Exchange Server 2003 is not supported on nodes that are also Active Directory directory servers, or nodes that are members of different Active Directory domains

 You must have a sufficient number of static IP addresses available

when you create the Exchange Virtual Servers Specifically, an <n>-node cluster with <e> Exchange Virtual Servers requires 2*n + e + 1 IP

address The +1 in this equation represents the additional IP address for

the default cluster group Therefore, for a two-node cluster, the

recommended number of static addresses is five plus the number of

Exchange Virtual Servers For a four-node cluster, the recommended number is nine plus the number of Exchange Virtual Servers For more information about IP addresses, see the section "IP Addresses and

Network Names" in the guide Planning an Exchange Server 2003

Messaging System (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=47584)

Note:

Throughout this topic, "Exchange Virtual Server" refers to the

Exchange Virtual Servers in the cluster and not to protocol virtual

servers, such as HTTP virtual servers

 Make sure that the Cluster service is installed and running on all nodes before you install Exchange Server 2003 In Windows 2000, you must install and configure the Cluster service manually In Windows

Server 2003 Enterprise and Datacenter Editions, the Cluster service is installed by default After the service is installed, you can use Cluster Administrator to configure the cluster If the Cluster service is not installed and running on each node in a cluster before installation, Exchange

Server 2003 Setup cannot install the cluster-aware version of Exchange Server 2003

Note:

If you installed Exchange Server 2003 before configuring the cluster, you must uninstall Exchange Server 2003, configure the cluster, and

then reinstall Exchange Server 2003

 Do not install Exchange Server 2003 on multiple nodes

simultaneously

 An Exchange Server 2003 cluster server cannot be the first Exchange Server 2003 server to join an Exchange Server 5.5 site This is because Site Replication Service (SRS) is not supported on an Exchange cluster You must install a stand-alone (non-clustered) Exchange Server 2003 server into an Exchange Server 5.5 site before installing Exchange

Server 2003 on the nodes of the cluster (The first Exchange Server 2003 server installed in an Exchange Server 5.5 site runs SRS.) For more

information about SRS, see Exchange Server 2003 Help

 Before you install Exchange Server 2003, make sure that the folder to which you will install all the Exchange shared data on the physical disk resource is empty

 You must install the same version of Exchange Server 2003 on all nodes in the cluster In addition, the Exchange program files must be

installed in the same location on all nodes in the cluster In Exchange Server 2003, the Exchange binaries are installed on the local storage and not the cluster shared storage

 At a minimum, you must install Microsoft Exchange Messaging and Collaboration and Microsoft Exchange System Management Tools on all nodes of the cluster

 The Cluster service account must have local Administrator privileges

on the cluster nodes and be a domain user account You can establish those permissions by creating a domain user account and making this account a member of the local Administrators group on each node

 By default in Windows 2000 and later versions, any user account has the permission to join a computer to the domain If this permission has been restricted in accordance with your organization's security policy, you must explicitly grant that permission For information about how to verify that the Cluster Service account has the Add Workstations to a Domain User permission, see Microsoft Knowledge Base article 307532, "How to Troubleshoot the Cluster Service Account When It Modifies Computer Objects" (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=3052&kbid=307532)

 (Recommendation) Install Terminal Services so that administrators

can use Remote Desktop to manage clusters However, administrators

can also use the Administrative Tools package (Adminpak.msi) from any Exchange Server 2003 server to remotely manage clusters

Note:

By default, Terminal Services is installed on servers that run Windows Server 2003 Terminal Services is an optional component on servers that run Windows 2000

Server-Specific Cluster Requirements

Before you deploy the Exchange Server 2003 cluster, make sure that your servers meet the requirements described in this section

Hardware Requirements

The hardware requirements to deploy Exchange Server 2003 clusters depend on the operating system you are running

 Windows Server 2003 hardware requirements

For Exchange Server 2003 cluster nodes running on Windows

Server 2003, Enterprise or Datacenter Editions, you must select from hardware listed in the Windows Server Catalog

(http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=17219) under the Cluster

Solutions category Additionally, for geographically dispersed clusters, both the hardware and software configuration must be certified and listed

in the Windows Server Catalog under the Geographically Dispersed

Cluster Solution category

 Windows 2000 Server hardware requirements

Exchange Server 2003 cluster nodes running on Windows 2000 Server must be running the Advanced Server or Datacenter Server editions For information about the hardware requirements for these editions, see the section "Checklists for Cluster Server Installation" in the technical article Step-by-Step Guide to Installing Cluster Service

(http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=266)

Note:

To simplify configuration issues and possibly eliminate some

compatibility problems, we recommend that the cluster configuration

contain identical storage hardware on all cluster nodes