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Video: Pt. 1 - Getting All Nodes Ready to Setup Your Windows 2003 Cluster

  • ·Skill level: 400 (Intermediate - Advanced)
  • ·Run Time: 6:52
  • ·Instructor: Grant Moyle

Description:

Okay, so you have two machines that you want to cluster and now you need to know how to begin. This first video walks you through setting up the first node (Node1) for clustering. There are a few pre-requisites that we have to muddle through before we can set up this cluster and, in this video, we'll start with our checklist of items that you must do/meet to set up the cluster.

Highlights from this video:
  • Assigning and Managing IP address for a cluster
  • Dealing with .local domains within a cluster
  • Best Practices for Hardware Management in a Cluster
  • How much RAM should your clustered machines use?
  • Issues when using multiple domain controllers with replication
  • Local storage and local hard disks/drives and using the clustered storage array
  • What are local disks used for in a cluster?
and much more

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Grant Moyle

Grant A. Moyle is the founder of Confuzer Inc, an Illinois-based Windows, Exchange, and Networking consulting firm specializing in Implementation and Troubleshooting Active Directory and Exchange. He has been a Microsoft Certified System Engineer (MCSE) since the days of NT4 and a Certified Information Security Systems Professional (CISSP) since 2003. He has a Biomedical Engineering and Electrical Engineering background from Johns Hopkins University, and over 10 y... (Grant's full bio can be found here)


NOTE: This video is part of our Windows Server 2003 Administration course.
This video is from Chapter 11: Disaster Recovery: Backups, Clustering and Troubleshooting

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