How to install Deployment Server on Microsoft Cluster Server.
Article #: AKB7197
Author: 3108
Date: 3/11/2005 9:19:28 AM
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Question:
How to install Deployment Server on Microsoft Cluster Server?
Answer:
1. There must be two servers clustered and working.
2. Install the enterprise version of SQL from the primary node onto the virtual server. SQL will not let you install onto the virtual server that Microsoft Cluster Service created so you have to make a new virtual server. To run the Deployment Server (DS) on a cluster, a cluster virtual IP needs to be established.
3. Install the DS with the same settings from each cluster node but use the cluster IP address anywhere you enter an IP. From the Primary node in the cluster (the node that owns the storage) install an instance of the DS using the shared storage for the DS database and the Client Access Files. The DS should be installed to the local drive.
4. Fail the cluster over to the Secondary node and do the install the exact same way.
5. With all the files pointing to the exact same location, install the DS to the local drive. When both machines are rebooted, they should both be running the Altiris Express Service in Services Manager.
7. Now open Cluster Manager and create a new Generic Service; name the service the same name as the one running in Services Manager. Make it part of the Cluster Group that all the other services are running in.
8. Now it should be possible to fail over the service and it should start the Altiris Express Service on the inactive node.
Because the DS is not cluster aware, anytime there is an active node transfer it will be as if the axengine died and restarted. That means Aclient will probably become orphaned until it attempts a reconnect.
