Re: Changing domain & renaming servers in a cluster

To be honest, your best bet IMO is to blow it up and start over. One reason
is that you need to evict a node in order to rename it, so you're already
1/2 way there just trying to accomplish one of these changes.

If you can take the outage, I'd recommend starting over...or better yet,
build a new cluster with updated hardware in your new domain and then
migrate your applications over.

Some articles you would need to accomplish your changes if you chose to
evict/re-join to change node names:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/269196
http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/library/3423f079-753c-4066-a998-26bf274298f41033.mspx?mfr=true

Regards,
John

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"Rich" <Rich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:E78B444F-F274-42D6-9478-48E6F1DAF11F@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi everybody. I have a Windows Server 2003 cluster with 3 servers. At a
minimum, the servers need to have their computer names changed, and then
have
the domain they belong to changed. I'd also like to update the cluster
name
to reflect our new naming scheme so it matches the actual server names
closer. I inherited this cluster, so i'm not sure what all this entails.
Any advice or good articles I could read on how to do this without blowing
everything up?

Any help is GREATLY appreciated!


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