Chris,
Only the Public NIC can be teamed, but even in some of the Windows 2003 Documentation said, if the teaming is causing problems, it might have to be broken accordingly to troubleshoot the problem. Teaming of NIC's on the Private NIC should not be done. I still go with the old school ( Public Nic (Teamed or not) (If teamed (Fail on Fault configuration)) for the public Network and the Private NIC (single NIC) for the Private network and I don't set the mixed communications on the cluster. I haven't done a Win2k8 Cluster yet, but I would stick with the tried and true steps as they where in Win2k3 for the time being as a troubleshooting step. Although my other question would be about the VLANing and having Nodes across 2 different subnets. Z From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 8:45 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: 2008 Failover cluster I'm very familiar with failover clustering in 2003, but not in 2008. A colleague setup a 2008 cluster on our network and it's having some issues. Unfortunately he is no longer with the company. We opened a case with MS regarding this and the tech is asking me about the network configuration. The server has 2 NICs and they are setup in a team. It's configured to allow the cluster to use it (heartbeat) and clients to connect to it. I'm reading through the documentation, specifically: Step-by-Step Guide for Configuring a Two-Node File Server Failover Cluster in Windows Server 2008 And the word heartbeat is not even mentioned in this document. In fact this is a direct quote: You can connect your cluster nodes with one network that is constructed with teamed network adapters, redundant switches, redundant routers, or similar hardware that removes single points of failure. This is quite different from a 2003 cluster with distinct network connections, one of which is for heartbeat communication. Can someone confirm this for me? From what I've heard so far from the MS tech, he wants to break the team and set it up with 2 distinct networks, one of which will be for heartbeat. But from everything I'm reading, this is NOT required in 2008 anymore. I can't even find a recommendation that this needs to be done. Thanks, Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr. Systems Engineer Infrastructure Service Delivery Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher_bod...@glic.com Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003 ________________________________ This message, and any attachments to it, may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, copying, or communication of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete the message and any attachments. Thank you. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
