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In this part, I’ll show how to install software requirements for WSUS on Windows Server 2003.

Requirements

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Introduction

Microsoft Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) is a Windows service that helps in distribution Microsoft’s updates to clients in network. It downloads updates from Microsoft Update and installs the updates to client computers in network so that each computer doesn’t need access to the Internet and download updates from Microsoft website itself. Hence, if you have a lot of computers that running Windows that require updates in your network, you can save a lot of bandwidth of the Internet connection. Also, WSUS enables centralized management. It has an administrative console that summarizes current updates available on the server and updated status of each client computer that connect to the WSUS server.

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Introduction

This post continue from last post “Getting started with Microsoft Cluster Service, Part V: Create a file server cluster (1)”. I decide to separate this part since it’s quite long to be keep in a post. In this post, I’ll create File Share resource which depends on all of the resources that I’ve created in the prevoius post. Then, I’ll bring all the resources online to complete create a file server cluster. After that, I’ll try to failover the file server cluster service from one node to another node.

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Introduction

In this part and next following post, I’m going to create a file server cluster that has 2 nodes which are BKKSQL010 and BKKSQL020. This part, I’ll create a group to hold all resouces for the file server cluster. Then, I’ll create a physical disk resource (Disk R:) on the server cluster to keep my shared files. Next, I’ll create a virtual IP address for client to access the shared folder. Last step in this part, I’ll create a network name resource to the IP address so I can access the shared folder through this name besides the IP address. I’ll cover how to create a file share resource on the next post.

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Introduction

From previous part, I have a server cluster ‘BKKCluster.virtual.com’ with a node on BKKSQL010. With a node, I can’t use failover feature of the cluster (Failover means switching applications and services from one node to another node). Therefore, I need to add another node to this cluster server to enable failover feature. In this part, I’ll show how to add node (BKSQL020) to the cluster server.

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Introduction

From last part, I have complete configured the requirement for creating a server cluster. Now I’ll create a new cluster server name ‘BKKCluster’ and add ‘BKKSQL010′ as a first node on the cluster server.

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Introduction

In this part, I’ll show how to add new disks on both servers (BKKSQL010 and BKKSQL020) as shared disks using Microsoft iSCSI Initiator. The first disk will be a quorum disk on Q: drive which has capacity 512 MB. The second disk will be a shared disk to keep applications and services on R: drive which has capacity 8 GB.

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What’s cluster

A cluster is a group of servers, consists of 2 or more servers, running and sharing resource one another to working as a single system and provide high avaiability of service for clients. The advantages of clustering are: Read the rest of this entry »