I just recently installed Exchange 2007 on Windows 2008 servers in a SCC cluster. The cluster works fine and it does fail over correctly. All the validation tests pass.
Whenever I try to mount a database (doesn't matter which one), I get a warning message that says:
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Microsoft Exchange Warning
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Succeeded in mounting database 'ABCT,' but with some warnings listed below.
ABCT
Completed
Warning:
This database "mail2\ABCT\ABCT" is hosted on a clustered mailbox server in a single copy cluster, and it does not have any physical disk dependencies configured. Please follow the steps described at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=84866 to create the necessary physical disk resource dependencies for "ABCT/ABCT (mail2)".
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OK
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I used this link
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb691095.aspx for 2008 Servers.
However, I'm a little confused by it. Here's my setup:
Mail3 - Physical Server
Mail4 - Physical Server
Cluster name: Mail7 (this is what I see at the top when I open Failover Cluster Management and I think that's what the management tools use to connect to the cluster).
Under Services and Applications
-Mail2 (that's the name Outlook clients will use to connect to)
Under Nodes
-Mail3
-Mail4
I went to Services and Applications, Mail2, Other Resources, then I selected the ABCT storage group/mailbox store. I went to Properties, then Dependencies tab. There, here's what I see:
-Exchange System Attendant Instance (mail2)
-First Storage Group/Mailbox Database (mail2)
-IP Address: 172.16.0.4
-Name: Mail2
-Second Storage Group/Public Folder Database (mail2)
The article and the warning message are talking about disk depencies. I'm not sure if I'm looking at the right thing. I tried to select Mail2 and mount the database again but the same error message.
All Resources show up as "Online" (green) under Services and Applications, Mail2.