Let's say I needed to recover the passive node of a two node E2K3 cluster. The passive node, let's say, said goodbye. The active node continued to run on W2K3 SP1. Granted that the hardware bits are all in order, and I added a replacement node to the cluster, would I need to re-run the install of Exchange Server 2003 on the replacement node? Or just fail the virtual machines over from the active node? It's Exchange2K3 SP2.

No, you don't run in /DisasterRecover mode. You evict the old node from the cluster, build the new node, join it to the domain, and add it to the cluster. Here's more detail. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa998691(v=exchg.65) Ed Crowley MVP "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems."

No, you don't run in /DisasterRecover mode. You evict the old node from the cluster, build the new node, join it to the domain, and add it to the cluster. Here's more detail. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa998691(v=exchg.65) Ed Crowley MVP "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems."

I don't understand. I mean, will I have to reinstall Exchange on the replaced node. I think I do.

OK... I read the link. It's clear.

You are welcome to mark my post as the answer and/or as helpful.Ed Crowley MVP "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems."