I am planning for a single node standby cluster at our DR location so
we can perform a tape restore of our production cluster in the event of
a disaster and just wanted to understand the requirements regarding the
disk configuration. I am proposing that we perform full computer

I'm having a virtual server fail to start the system attendant service right
after I get the following warning:
Metabase Update failed replication 5 times with error 80070490 (Element not
found.).

Just about to setup two FE servers to use NLB and got a couple of questions.
1. Can you setup two FE servers using NLB with only one NIC/IP per server.
(not including the Virtual Server of course) The Front End NLB documentation
refers you to general NLB configuration, which says ...

Hello, I have successfully install JetStress on the cluster.  However, when
I try to use it, it automatically fails the cluster over the to the second
node and fails the JetStress.
Windows 2003/ Two node Exhcnage 2003 cluster

Have built an active/passive Exchange cluster but when testing by
failing over to the second node, the MTA and MS Search instances are
failing. All instances on first node start up perfectly well.
The errors in the application section of event viewer that get

Has anyone encountered this error
The specified domain either does not exist or could not
be contacted.
Facility: Win32

Can somebody tell me what is difference between clustering and Network Load
Balancing?
Both concepts seem so similar.
I have this practice question that I can't figure out.

In my organization it is exchange 2003 two node clustered environment.
Sometime back we had a planned change, hence I failover the cluster from one
node to other. After this, it has started sending e-mail via the physical
nodes ip and not from the virtual IP.

Env: A/P Exchange 2003 Cluster, OS:W2K3 Ent
Exchange HTTP Virtual Server IsAlive check for this resource failed. Anyone
encountered this and know how to solve?
regards.

Can anyone help me please?
We have 2 node E2K3 cluster environment. Due to some reason we are not able
to take backup. We are using Legato networker for backup. It is able to take
backup from all other servers except E2K3 cluster.

We are in the process of configuring a dispersed cluster with our netapp
filers. Seems there are no documents or even anyone who knows how to set
this up.
We have logged a call with netapp for them to tell us how it should be

Env: Windows 2003 Ent, Exchange 2003 Ent, A/P cluster, one EVS
When i unplug the network cable from Prod LAN (heartbeat still connected) to
simulate NIC failure. Failover did not happen, i only see the Virtual IP
Address turned to failed stage and no further action.

Setup: Ex2003 SP2 on 4-node cluster with 2 EVS's.
I want to remove the first disk from one of our EVS and have moved all
stores and queues and logs from it but have found out that some registry keys
still point to it under the HKLM\cluster\resource key (information store data

We have a two node cluster for Exchange in Active/Passive mode. We are
running Exchange 2003 SP2 and Windows 2003 SP1. We are facing issues
with storage as out total storage spread over 3 mailbox store amounts
to around 150 GB of which 1 mailbox store on which quota is not

I am having some problems failing our Exchange cluster from one node to
the other and would appreciate some help.
The first node (CNODE01) is working fine but webmail stopped
functioning with SSL at some point on Monday morning.  I have since