Deploying Exchange Server 2007 SP1 CCR cluster on a Windows Server 2008 failover Cluster

Remember last year that you wrote a piece of Exchange Server 2007 SP1 CCR, but it's a Windows Server 2003-based platform. The failover cluster for Windows Server 2008 has been a number of projects, including SQL 2005, Exchange 2007, and so on. Today, I'm going to repeat the CCR feature of the Mail to my friends who love Microsoft technology and hope you will support me.

Prerequisite

A before can follow along with the steps provided at this article series, you must have a lab environment consisting O f The following: Lab environment consists of the following:

1 Windows 2003 SP1 (preferably SP2) or Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition Server configured as a domain controller in Active directory forest with the domain functional level in least Native. A Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Server is configured as a domain controller (Active Directory) with at least 2000 domain functional levels.

1 Windows 2003 SP1 (preferably SP2) or Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition Server with the Exchange 2007 SP1 Client Acces S and Hub Transport server roles installed (optionally you can install this roles on the domain controller). A Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Server is configured for the client Access role and Hub Transport server role for Exchange 2007 SP1.

2 Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition Servers that would become the nodes in the failover. Two Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Servers that will be configured as failover clusters, that is, Exchange 2007 SP1 active and passive mailbox nodes

The 2 Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition Servers should is equipped with 2 network interfaces (one for the public netw Ork and one for the "Private Heartbeat network) and at least 2 disks–1 for the" System partition, 1 for Exchange databases and optionally 1 for transaction log files (in a lab environment these could also is located together with the Exchange D atabases). Two Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition Server is equipped with 2 network cards (one for public network, one for fast heartbeat line). 2 Fast HDD-,1 fast for system partitions, 1 fast store Exchange database and log files (these are placed on the same fast drive in the lab environment).

Name:ccrnode1 ip:public:10.10.1.141/24 private:192.168.1.10/24

Name:ccrnode2 ip:public:10.10.1.142/24 private:192.168.1.11/24

Windows Cluster cluster Name:ccrcluster ip:10.10.1.144

Exchange CCR name:mbx ip:10.10.1.146

Keep in mind that the 32-bit version of Exchange 2007 is not recommended for use in a production environment

Now we're going to start the operation.

First configure the failover group Rally point

Open Windows Server 2008 's server manager– point open Storage Select disk Management, now we see the two fast drives I added before, which are in the offline state. Now let's just right-click a disk and format it.

Hook up two fast disks and tick before "MBR (Master Boot record)"