A few tips for Exchange Server 2007 SCC & CCR clustered installations

re: A few tips for Exchange Server 2007 SCC & CCR clustered installations

Dan — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:01:07 GMT

Because of the failed Active Node install, I'm reading this thread. Here's my cmdline:

(And yes, cn and cip are unique)

exsetup /newcms /cn:Mail01 /cip:x.x.x.x /css /cdp:"M:\SANDRIVE"

This still fails with the following:

An unexpected error has occurred and a Watson dump is being generated: Cluster Common Failure Exception : The group or resource is not in the correct state to perform the requested operation. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007139F)

The Store resource is "Offline" and the SA resource is "Failed". I change the Pending timeout to 1800 from 180 and then try to bring them online but they both just fail.

I've run exsetup /removecms and re-installed a few times now and still failures.

Win 2k3 ent R2 SP2 (latest WinUpdates)

Active/Passive SCC Cluster

Installing Active Node

Ex 2k7 ent

Shared Storage

-Data M:

-Logs L:

-Quorum Q:

-MNS(FileShare Witness) \\server\share

Has anyone solved this issue yet, i can't find anything on the net. If I do, I'll post back. Thanks.

re: A few tips for Exchange Server 2007 SCC & CCR clustered installations

Anbu — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:51:04 GMT

Thank you for your tips.

I am facing the same issue of 0xc103fd2c while setting up the Single Copy Cluster. I have tried what you have mentioned in the article. Can you guide me please?

The error message is appearing while starting the Cluster Mailbox Setup.

Error:

Error of unknown type occured while performing exsetdata operation; the original error code was 0xc103fd2c

re: A few tips for Exchange Server 2007 SCC & CCR clustered installations

Keith Nelson — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 20:55:00 GMT

First off .. great write up it helped a lot.

Second .. to install the custer as a Singe Copy Cluster aka SCC run the following command.

exsetup /newcms /cn:<YOUR MBNAME> /cip:<YOUR IP> /css /cdp:<PATH TO SHARED STORAGE>

You cannot point the shared storage to the root of the drive. It must go into a directory.

If you ever plan on using Standby Continues Cluster Replication that is released in Exchange 2007 SP1 then your path should be unique on all servers. I am currently using the scheme of SERVERNAME-STORAGEGROUPNAME. So if the server is named mbx01 and and your storage group is named Storage Group 1 the path would be <DriveLetter>:\MBX01-SG1

re: A few tips for Exchange Server 2007 SCC & CCR clustered installations

Scott Williams — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:32:44 GMT

You might want to note that when you run the command line installs, it automatically defaults it to a CCR cluster, NOT SCC. I ran into the issue of adding Active nodes to the cluster and finding out it the cluster was installed as a CCR, by using the EXSETUP and/or setup.com commands you state above. I had to rebuild the whole cluster again and use the GUI to add the first Active node.

re: A few tips for Exchange Server 2007 SCC & CCR clustered installations

omar — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 05:45:33 GMT

very nice thank you .

i have exchange 2007 clustering sloution which including 5 server can i make 4 servers as active cluster and one server as passive and how ?

please advice and help

please send to my e-mail eng_omar78@hotmail.com

plz help

re: A few tips for Exchange Server 2007 SCC & CCR clustered installations

Thu, 27 Sep 2007 18:08:45 GMT

Very nice...thanks

re: A few tips for Exchange Server 2007 SCC & CCR clustered installations

Rick — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 03:39:31 GMT

Great post. Worked for me!!