Exchange 2003 Cluster on Windows 2000

[TMS]

Hello,

I am in the process of installing Exchange 2003 Cluster on a Windows 2000. I
understand this is a supported configuration, but I was wondering if there
are known issues with this configuration.

Thanks,
TMS

 

[Roneil Icatar]

There are a couple of gotcha's that we found while installing 2003 in a lab.
One is to make sure that the cluster service account needs to be explicitly
added to the local Admins group. It's not enough for it to be part of a
domain group that is in the local Admins group.

The docs also stated that failover is supposed to be faster with E2K3, but I
found that it was 10% slower with E2K3 on Win2K. After upgrading the nodes
to Win2K3, then failover times were much faster and were basically cut in
half.

Good luck.

Roneil

 

[TMS]

Thank you for sharing your experience with me, it is greatly appreciated. I
would agree that most likely you would get better performance installing
Exchange 2003 on Windows 2003 but due to hardware support limitation I have
to go this route.

Thank you again,
TMS