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Cloning the MS Cluster environnement
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Clone? You won't be doing that, cluster records disk signatures.
To set up your test environment, you need AD. Cluster nodes must be members of a domain. I'd start by putting a DC in your test lab. Next, I'd record the cluster configuration on the cluter you want to reproduce. Clusdiag does a good job of that. From the data, you should be able to create a decent facimile of your production environment.
You have a shiny new test lab; many of us don't have that luxury. In my case, I have a couple of old dual xeon boxes with 4GB of ram each. I find it quite useful to work with virtualization products like virtual server and vmware when testing functionality/process of designs. Lately, I'm been doing a lot of iSCSI cluster work, so I managed to obtain the data ONTAP simulator from Netapp. I run that on a eunuchs box, also in a virtual machine. The setup is good for prototyping, proof of concept, process validation, etc.. This setup's major shortfall is performance. It's useless for generating any kind of useful performance data.
To set up your test environment, you need AD. Cluster nodes must be members of a domain. I'd start by putting a DC in your test lab. Next, I'd record the cluster configuration on the cluter you want to reproduce. Clusdiag does a good job of that. From the data, you should be able to create a decent facimile of your production environment.
You have a shiny new test lab; many of us don't have that luxury. In my case, I have a couple of old dual xeon boxes with 4GB of ram each. I find it quite useful to work with virtualization products like virtual server and vmware when testing functionality/process of designs. Lately, I'm been doing a lot of iSCSI cluster work, so I managed to obtain the data ONTAP simulator from Netapp. I run that on a eunuchs box, also in a virtual machine. The setup is good for prototyping, proof of concept, process validation, etc.. This setup's major shortfall is performance. It's useless for generating any kind of useful performance data.
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