Day 2 was actually yesterday. It was a bit busy and frustrating at times. One of both servers were acting real funny right from the very beginning. On one the OS service pack 2 wasn't showing up in Add remove programs but it was installed. I even went ahead and installed it again three times. We went ahead and installed exchange on both servers and then created the exchange virtual server. The exchange virtual server was created but creating an IP Address Resource a Network Name Resource and a Physical Disk Resource then the System Attendant resource which allowed the cluster to show up in the Organization.
After that the failover from server A to B and back was taking enirely too long. Then Exchange SP2 wouldn't install on server A. The MSDTC service would always fail to start. So we followed some of the articles to remove and re-add it but the service never added back for some reason. So at the very end of the day I said made the decision to REFORMAT both servers and reinstall.
We've decided to look for some newer hardware drivers and firmware updates and found some and installed those. Then we replaces the heartbeat cross-over cable. Then reinstalled. Everything works so much better and the service pack was installed before the cluster was brought up this time, LOL!
That was yesterday.
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