Migrate 2000 Cluster in NT domain to new hardware in AD domain

[Labalie]

I have numerous Microsoft 2000 clusters that are currently in a legacy NT 4.0 domain. I need to migrate the data/shares/resources/etc to new, updated servers in an Active Directory domain.
My basic plan is to build a new cluster on the updated servers from scratch in the AD domain and then move the data (SAN attached storage) to them.
Has anyone done something like this?

 

[mrdenny]

That should be pretty much the plan. You aren't really looking at a migration in the normal sence of the word. You just need to build a new Windows 2003 cluster and then move the storage resources to the new cluster.

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[Labalie]

Thanks for the update. I understand the basic idea, but the practice of it escapes me. How can I recreate the shares/resources/etc with the same names the easiest?

 

[mrdenny]

As far as I know there isn't an easy way. Last time I had to rebuild a cluster I simply took screenshots of the current config and typed very carefully.

Denny
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