Using VMware to implement Exchange2003 clusters in Win2003

System configuration:

CPU:AMD Athon xp2000+

MEM:768MB '

Hard drive: 80G

os:winxp+
Sp1

VMWare GSX Server 3.0

Windows http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/19058.html ">2003 Enterprise edition+exchange2003 Enterprise Edition

With VMware GSX Server, three Win2003 systems are allocated, each system allocates 192MB of memory, and memory is set to 576MB in the "HOST" of VMware GSX server.

When installing three Win2003, I first add a network card before each installation, set the first NIC as Vnet0, plus set to Vnet1

Set up for each machine:

clu1:vnet0:192.168.61.2 mask:255.255.255.0 dns:192.168.61.10 vnet1:10.1.1.2

clus2:vnet0:192.168.61.3 mask:255.255.255.0 dns:192.168.61.10 vnet1:10.1.1.3

clussev:vnet0:192.168.61.10 mask:255.255.255.0 dns:192.168.61.10 vnet1:10.1.1.10

Configure Clussev to the AD service server (set to AD and DNS servers only), and choose Custom if it is set up by default it installs a firewall and the client pings the AD service server. (with 192.168.61.2 or 192.168.61.3 ping 192.168.61.10, but with 10.1.1.2 or 10.1.1.3ping of the pass 10.1.1.10, do not know why)., ad domain name is work.com

Clus1 and Clus2 are made into Clussev member servers and logged in by the administrator. (I am the domain that joins Clus1 and Clus2 to CLUSSEVR)

Two. Create a shared disk cabinet

I read the article on the Internet that the VMware GSX server's program directory has plainmake.exe, but I did not, I downloaded from the Internet.

Copy it to the directory where you want to store the shared disk cabinet file., assuming the K:\SCSI

Cluster shared disk cabinets require at least one Quorum disk and a shared workloads, so we need to create two SCSI disks. Enter into command mode:

Plainmaker QUORUM.PLN 200

Plainmaker SHAREDDISK.PLN 2000

This creates a file in the E:\SCSI directory

Quorum.pln

Shareddisk.pln

Quorum1.dat

Shareddisk1.dat

Add two virtual SCSI disks to Clus1 and Clus2., when adding SCSI mode to select Scsi1:0 and Scsi1:1. When I first tried I chose Scsi0:1 and Scsi0:2, and when I did cluster I said I couldn't find the arbitration disk. system disk and arbitration disk cannot be completed on a whole line. Select the existing virtual disk, select VMware Plain workloads in the open file type, filename quorum.pln, SHAREDDISK.PLN.

The most important step is to open the. vmx file in each virtual machine and add disk.locking= "FALSE" (You can open it in Notepad) at the end.

In addition, Win2003 needs to install SCSI driver, to the VMware Web site can be down to the drive virtual floppy image (address: http://www.vmware.com/download/downloadscsi.html). Then point the virtual floppy drive to the mirror, install the SCSI driver for each virtual machine, and then convert the two SCSI disks into basic disks in Disk Management, create the primary partition, and format it as NTFS. The 200M is set to the Q partition, the volume label Quorum, the 2G one is set to S partition, the label Shareddisk