Cluster Install Question

[Clayton Sutton]

I am running VMWare 5 on a Windows XP Pro. workstation. What I would like
to do is install an Exchange 2003 cluster. However, I don't want to have to
install two (2) copies of Windows 2003 Server and two (2) copies of Exchange
2003.

Is there a way to only install one of each and reuse the it for the other
node? Thanks for any and all help.


Clayton

[Jim Henderson]

Post by Clayton Sutton
Is there a way to only install one of each and reuse the it for the other
node? Thanks for any and all help.

You can try a linked clone after sysprepping the image, but if you want to
run this as a production cluster (though why you'd want to do that on one
machine is beyond me), you are required by the MS license agreement to
license all nodes of the cluster properly.

If it's a test environment, you could just not activate and let the
activation time expire (60 days IIRC).

Also, as a point of interest, it's *generally* considered bad form to
crosspost to so many groups - pick the one that fits best and start
there...In this case the guest.windowsServer group would be your best
starting place, since that describes what you're trying to install.

Jim