Windows 2008 clustering validation failed

[aktaon]

Greetings to all:

I am trying to create Windows 2008 cluster. I installed windows 2008 on one physical server and one Virtual machine. When I run cluster validation everything passed except "software update missing" on node2. There were 4 updates that are missing on node2. When I tried to install the missing patch two of them said it is already installed the other two said it is not applicable for this window. Although I used the same media to install windows 2008,the virtual machine is installed on slightly different server hardware. My question is, is it OK to ignore that and install the cluster? Thank you in advance.

 

[kmcferrin]

Do you need support on it? If so, then it will need to pass the cluster validation tests. If you don't need support (it's in a test environment or non-prod lab) then it's OK to ignore that.

Regardless, the cluster should install just fine. The real issue is what will happen if it stops working correctly. As a general rule/best practice, you should have identical hardware and software configurations on all of your cluster nodes. Since you mentioned that one of the nodes is a VM, why not just make both nodes VMs? Then their hardware will be identical (at least from the OSes perspective).

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[aktaon]

Thank you very much. I was just looking for a second opinion. I was going to install it for production. I didn't want to use 2 VMs because I am planning to install SQL Server. You are right, I don't want to take risk by ignoring it. Thank you again.