Re: N+1 Configuration Clustering Question



You can use preferred owners to setup the groups to failover to your SPARE
node first, and you can use AntiAffinityClassNames property to help prevent
groups from coming online on the same node, but you cannot prevent this from
happening. If the cluster has no alternatives, it will bring the groups
online on the same node.

You might want to review the following KB article for more details:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/296799

Regards,
John



"Huw" <huw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:%23uOcWqDxFHA.1148@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi All,
>
> I've a question on MSCS and N+1 configuration I was hoping one of you
could
> help with...
>
> Do you know if it's possible to set up an N+1 configuration in the
following
> way.
>
> Here is the scenario:
>
> We have 3 Servers, NODE1, NODE2 and NODE3
>
> We also have a spare node SPARE
>
> We then have 3 different resource groups
>
> ResourceGroup1 can run on NODE1 and SPARE
> ResourceGroup2 can run on NODE2 and SPARE
> ResourceGroup3 can run on NODE3 and SPARE
>
> It it possible to configure it so that any one of the Resource Groups
listed
> above can failover to the spare, but not more than one resource group on
the
> same node at the same time?
>
> I couldn't find anything in the Cluster Administrator in 2003, is this
> functionality available or coming in a future version?
>
> Thanks,
> Huw
>
>


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