A. You should never add any resources to the default Cluster Group. Instead, you should create resource groups that you want to use to host resources. When you add a new resource group, at minimum it needs an IP address, a network name, and an instance of a resource type (e.g., file server). Let’s create a new group and a file server resource within it. Note that I use the period (.) to show that we’re modifying the local cluster.
C:\>cluster . group "file server" /create Creating resource group 'file server'... Group Node Status -------------------- --------------- ------ file server savdalclus01 Offline C:\>cluster . res "File Server" /create /group:"file server" /type:"File Server" Creating resource 'File Server'... Resource Group Node Status -------------------- -------------------- --------------- ------ File Server file server savdalclus01 Offline
You can use the cluster restype command to display a full list of resource types, as follows:
C:\>cluster restype Listing all available resource types: Display Name Resource Type Name ------------------------------------ ------------------------------------ DHCP Service DHCP Service Distributed File System Distributed File System Distributed Transaction Coordinator Distributed Transaction Coordinator File Server File Server File Share Quorum Witness File Share Witness Generic Application Generic Application Generic Script Generic Script Generic Service Generic Service IP Address IP Address IPv6 Address IPv6 Address IPv6 Tunnel Address IPv6 Tunnel Address iSNSClusRes Microsoft iSNS (Resource Type Unavailable) MSMQ (Resource Type Unavailable) MSMQTriggers Network Name Network Name NFS Share NFS Share Physical Disk Physical Disk Print Spooler Print Spooler Volume Shadow Copy Service Task Volume Shadow Copy Service Task WINS Service WINS Service
Now you add the IP address and network name. Note that I created an IPv4 address, but you can also add an IPv6 address if you’re using IPv6.
C:\>cluster . res "FS IP Address" /create /group:"file server" /type:"IP Address" /priv address=192.168.1.106 subnetmask=255.255.255.0 Creating resource 'FS IP Address'... Resource Group Node Status -------------------- -------------------- --------------- ------ FS IP Address file server savdalclus01 Offline C:\>cluster . res "FS Name" /create /group:"file server" /type:"Network Name" /priv name="savdalclusfsfs01" dnsname= "savdalclusfsfs01" Creating resource 'FS Name'... Resource Group Node Status -------------------- -------------------- --------------- ------ FS Name file server savdalclus01 Offline
Now you need to create a dependency between the IP address and the name, like this:
C:\>cluster . res "FS Name" /adddep:"FS IP Address" Making resource 'FS Name' depend on resource 'FS IP Address'... C:\>cluster . res "FS Name" /listdep Listing resource dependency expression for 'FS Name': ---------------------------------------------------------------- (\[FS IP Address\]) Listing resource dependencies for 'FS Name': Resource Group Node Status -------------------- -------------------- --------------- ------ FS IP Address file server savdalclus02 Online
We can now bring the resources online by using the cluster .res "resource name" /on command.
For most resource group types, you also need some shared storage to actually do anything useful. So let’s move some available storage into the new resource group:
C:\>cluster res "Data Disk" /move:"file server" Moving resource 'Data Disk' to group 'file server'... Resource Group Node Status -------------------- -------------------- --------------- ------ Data Disk file server savdalclus01 Online
Now you set the network name and the storage as dependencies for the resource group to be online, like this:
C:\>cluster . res "file server" /adddep:"FS Name" Making resource 'file server' depend on resource 'FS Name'... C:\>cluster . res "file server" /adddep:"Data Disk" Making resource 'file server' depend on resource 'Data Disk'... C:\>cluster . res "file server" /listdep Listing resource dependency expression for 'file server': ---------------------------------------------------------------- (\[Data Disk\]) and (\[FS Name\]) Listing resource dependencies for 'file server': Resource Group Node Status -------------------- -------------------- --------------- ------ Data Disk file server savdalclus01 Online FS Name file server savdalclus01 Online
You can bring up the resource group by using the cluster .group group name /on command. Finally, you can actually add items to the resource group as you’d do with a share using typical methods, for example:
net share data=e:\data /remark:"Data Share"
The screencast below takes you through using the command line to perform this and other Server 2008 cluster-configuration tasks.
