Actually, the question arose because I virtualized one of the physical nodes down to a one-node cluster on ESX. Everything worked great and I was ready to call it complete until I ran a VCB backup and the cluster blew up because the cluster service lost the complete control of the virtual disk.
I had to revert to the physical hardware, but at least I have a working virtual copy that I've now used to finish the 'un-clustering' and get rid of the cluster service completely on the VM while keeping the underlying resources going. How did we ever live without VMs? -----Original Message----- From: Matthew Bullock [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 11:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Multiple network names on non-clustered server? HyperV or ESXi? -mb -----Original Message----- From: Richard Stovall [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 11:10 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Multiple network names on non-clustered server? I'm working on a project to 'un-cluster' some services from a Windows Server 2003 cluster running on aging hardware. I've figured out how to do everything I need to except I haven't determined if I can somehow recreate or mimic the multiple network name resources. For example, the active node's machine name is NodeA, but there are network name resources called MgmtFileServer, MktgFileServer, and SalesFileServer. (Hey, I didn't set it up...) People and business processes hit shares on the server using each of the network names. If I get rid of the cluster and take it down to just one machine, is there a way to seamlessly keep all of the existing client connections without modifying them to the actual machine name? I know I can get the clients to the machine with CNAME or A records, but can I make the machine listen on those names? Thanks, Richard Stovall ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
