Upgrade Exchange to a Cluster

Upgrade Exchange to a Cluster Consulting Services

After planning your cluster deployment strategy, proper deployment of that cluster ensures high availability of your servers running Microsoft Exchange Server 2003. Although deploying Exchange in a cluster is similar to deploying Exchange in a non-clustered organization, there are important differences you must consider. Upgrading an Exchange cluster to an Exchange 2003 requires that you upgrade each of the cluster nodes and Exchange Virtual Servers to Exchange 2003.  

For the latest information about Upgrading Exchange to a Cluster

 

Exchange Clustering Deployment

After you ensure that your Exchange organization meets the clustering requirements listed in this chapter, you are ready to deploy an Exchange 2003 cluster. Avidware provides the procedures necessary to deploy active/passive or active/active Exchange 2003 clusters on Windows Server 2003.  The recommended configuration for a four-node Exchange 2003 cluster is one that contains three active nodes and one passive node, where each of the active nodes contains one Exchange Virtual Server. This configuration is advantageous because it provides you with the capacity of running three active Exchange servers, while maintaining the failover security provided by one passive server.  

For the latest information about Exchange Clustering Deployment
 

 

Upgrading a New Exchange 2003 Cluster

To successfully upgrade Exchange 2003 on a server in a cluster, the Cluster service must be installed and running on a cluster node. The Cluster service is installed by default with Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition and Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition. However, the Cluster service is not installed by default with Windows 2000 Server.

Exchange 2003 Setup requires that the following components and services be installed and enabled on the server:

• .NET Framework
• ASP.NET
• Internet Information Services (IIS)
• World Wide Web Service
• Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) service
• Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) service

If you are installing Exchange 2003 on a server running Windows 2000, Exchange Setup installs and enables the Microsoft .NET Framework and ASP.NET automatically. You must enable the World Wide Web Publishing Service, the SMTP service, and the NNTP service manually before running Exchange Server 2003 Installation Wizard.

If you are installing Exchange 2003 in a native Windows Server 2003 forest or domain, none of these services is enabled by default. You must enable the services manually.

For the latest information about Upgrading a New Exchange 2003 Cluster

 

 

 

Upgrade Exchange to a Cluster Windows Server | Exchange Server | Clustering Windows | Exchange Server | Exchange Security | Clustering SQL | Clustering Veritas | Clustering Linux | Clustering Server | Clustering Exchange | Clustering Computing | Clustering Documents |