I am very new to sever 2008 let alone clustering...
And i am having a problem....i dont even know if my questions are correct/valid
1. So, i have two machines (VMs actually) that run Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 each with a single Network Interface card. Say M1 and M2
2. I want to make a two-node NLB Cluster out of these two machines
3. I have turned on the NLB on both the machines from Servermanager.
4. On M1, i have opened the NLB Manager and started creating a new cluster.
a. Right click on Network Load balancing clusters-->Create new cluster.
b. First step is to connect a host. since i want this (machine on which i am setting NLB) to be a part of NLB, i gave the machine name and clicked connect
c. able to connect and it gives me the option to choose the interface to use. I have only one NIC and therefore i have only one option to choose the local area connection.
d. Next comes the host parameters to add, the dedicated IP Address. So, here i entered the same ip address of this machine. IS THIS CORRECT? (this is where non-clustered traffic comes in?)
e. Next for the cluster parameters, i have added an unassigned static ip address (given by my admin) as the Cluster Ip Address. IS THIS CORRECT? (this is where the clustered traffic comes in?)
f. i have chosen the multi-cast mode for NLB clustering and entered the FQDN of the cluster
f. Now, when i hit next, i am able to setup the cluster BUT, i cannot use it. i mean i cannot add another host because it says un-identfied network
pinging the Dedicated IP Address on M1 is working
pinging the cluster IP Address on M1 is working. however ping -a <clusterIPAddress) doesn't resolve the name of the cluster
pinging the Dedicated IP Address of M1 from M2 is NOT working
ping the cluster IP Address form M2 is NOT working.
Basically my question is: For dedicated ip address i am using the same IP as of Machine M1 and for cluster IP address i am using some static IP Address..
is that right?
any help greatly appreciated....i have read a lot of documentation, but somehow i could not understand it...can anyone simplify this for me