Re: Heartbeat Network Adapter

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Thanks for the reply Ryan. Ok how about this one then. Both of my new
servers are HP DL360's with both of there internal PCI slots taken up by
fibre cards. That leaves no slot for a dedicated NIC as the heartbeat. By
default will one of the other NICS just take over as a heartbeat in addition
to functioning as either the prod network or backup lan?

"Ryan Sokolowski (MVP)" wrote:

Absolutely. Follow this article for more info on Clustering networking
requirements / design:

Server Clusters: Network Configuration Best Practices for Windows 2000 and
Windows Server 2003
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/technologies/clustering/clstntbp.mspx

Hope this helps,
--Ryan

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"Jeff M" <JeffM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Right now we have two nics in each server. One production LAN and the
second
being for the backup LAN. Sounds like I need to get a third NIC card for
each box and a crossover cable to solve this problem.

"MarkFox" wrote:

Jeff,

In a two node cluster you will need a nic dedicated for the heartbeat and
connected directly from one server to the other using a crossover cable.
Typically you using an address like 10.1.1.1 for one server and then
10.1.1.2
for the other. If you are going Win2k3 with more than 2 nodes then you
need
a hub with normal network cables. If you only have two nics then one
must be
used for the heartbeat. The problem with this is now you have a single
point
of failure if you do not have redundant nics. Hope that helps.
--
Mark


"Jeff M" wrote:

How do I go about setting this up? I am very confused by this piece of
the
cluster set up? Do I define this in the Cluster Admin or actually
create two
new network adapters (one on each server in the cluser) in my Network
Connections? There are only two servers in this cluster if that makes
a
difference.



.

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