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domain is shown in the From this location fi eld, as shown in Figure 8.40, and type Cluster Service Account or whatever name you gave the account in your setup.. Creating and Confi gurin

domain is shown in the From this location fi eld, as shown in Figure 8.40, and type

Cluster Service Account (or whatever name you gave the account in your setup)

click Check Names to verify that it resolves successfully Click OK and close the

Computer Management MMC snap-in

Figure 8.40 Adding the Cluster Service Account to the Local Administrators Group

5 Repeat Steps 1–4 for the server that will be the second node in the cluster

Creating and Confi guring the Windows 2003

Server Cluster

Now that the two servers are ready to act as nodes in a Windows 2003 cluster, it’s time to create the actual Windows 2003 Server Cluster To do so:

1 Log onto EDFS07 with a domain admin account, then click Start | Administrative

Tools | Cluster Administrator , and select Create new cluster in the drop-down box Click OK and then click Next, as shown in Figure 8.41.

2 Now specify the domain name as well as the cluster name (the name for the Windows 2003

cluster, not the Exchange cluster name to which the clients will connect) as shown in

Figure 8.42, then click Next.

Figure 8.41 Creating a New Cluster

NOTE

You can also open a command prompt and type Cluster.exe /create /wizard to start

the Cluster Wizard

3 If it’s not already entered, type the name of the Windows 2003 server that is to be the fi rst

node in the cluster (in this case, EDFS07), then click Next (see Figure 8.43).

Figure 8.42 Specifying the Cluster Name and Domain

Figure 8.43 Adding the First Cluster Node to the New Cluster

4 Let the Cluster Wizard determine the cluster confi guration and click Next

NOTE

You can ignore the two warnings shown in Figure 8.44, since the nodes in a cluster continuous replication-based mailbox server setup aren’t going to share the same disk subsystem

Figure 8.44 Analyzing Cluster Confi guration

5 Now enter the IP address that the cluster management tools should use to connect to the

cluster (in this case, 10.10.1.218) and click Next (see Figure 8.45).