Hi

Info on this is in the Installing and Configuring Guide.

Hope that helps,

Hello Rob,

I am following the same but am unsure about some things: -

1. What all Features/Roles/Services do we need to cluster from the following: -
     a. MSMQ
     b. IIS

2. If we need to cluster these, then how?

Kindly advise.

GauravAditya

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God knows what happened there!! This new pasting process seems to go wonky.....

Hello,

I installed MSMQ on both the nodes and then clustered the resource to be pointed to a shared Drive M:...  I checked to verify that the MSMQ files are now present they are...

Then I ran the Deployment Scanner and got the following warning: -

 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
MSMQ Configuration

 Either MSMQ is installed with Active Directory Integration or some storage directories are on a system drive. It is recommended that the MSMQ storage directories are located on a non system drive.

 
  MSMQ is installed without Active Directory integration. 
  The following Storage directory is on a system drive. StoreJournalPath: C:\Windows\System32\msmq\storage 
  The following Storage directory is on a system drive. StoreLogPath: C:\Windows\System32\msmq\storage 
  The following Storage directory is on a system drive. StorePersistentPath: C:\Windows\System32\msmq\storage 
  The following Storage directory is on a system drive. StoreReliablePath: C:\Windows\System32\msmq\storage 
  The following Storage directory is on a system drive. StoreXactLogPath: C:\Windows\System32\msmq\storage  
 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I opened the Server Manager and got to see that on both the servers and yes it is indeed point to the path in the warning above...

Can someone please help as to how can I get rid of this warning?

Regards,

GauravAditya

Great posting Frank. Hopefully this will help all those fighting with Windows 2008!

Hello All,

Firstly, I appreciate a lot for the inputs in the post by Frank.

However, I tried following the step above and I dont dont know why but i dont see MSMQ in the 'Add a resource ' section.

Moreover, I  tried clustering MSMQ directly, and it fails with the error below: -

Hi,

I installed an EV failover cluster recently and also had some probs with the MSMQ services.
Nice info by Frank above.

I also struggeled with the installation of the MSMQ on my 2 nodes.
Deployment scanner gave the path warnings, I changed them to the 'what I thought correct' shared drives.
Result: warning gone in the deployment scanner, but I did not manage to cluster the MSMQ's.

So, I uninstalled the MSMQ's on both nodes and tried to re-install them again, but this was no longer  possible (???!!??).
Reason: registry keys left behind regarding the MSMQ's.

So, what I suggest to do is to uninstall the MSMQ's on your nodes but be sure also to delete the MSMQ keys in the registry prior to reinstall the MSMQ's. (under \LOCAL MACHINE if I remember well ...)

Normally, you should be able then to add the MSMQ resource into the cluster.

greetz,

Rudy
   

Hello,

Frankly speaking even I tried moving MSMQ on a shared/clustered disk but that did not help.

Anyways, I have done all that and have reinstalled MSMQ. I knew that registry thingy from another forum and hence followed that to reinstall MSMQ.

NOW, MSMQ is still on the C: (System Drive) on both the nodes.

But I still get the same error as i mentioned in the post above while clustering MSMQ.

Please advise.

Regards,

GauravAditya

Hi did you ever get this issue resolved as this is the issue i had when i tried it years back non SP1 and now i am looking at the same issue again with 2008 R2 64bit. I noticed it has been added to the SP1, SP2 supported list (non R2)

Hello all,

The steps followed are as below: - (THESE STEPS HAVE WORKED FOR ME)

1. Uninstalled MSMQ completely (deleted MSMQ registry keys)
2. Installed MSMQ again

NOTE: - It is not recommended to keep MSMQ storage on C:\ (System / boot) Drive. It is also pointed out when you install and run Deployment Scanner.
So, there needs to be another local drive. (Mapped drives, SAN, NAS, UNC paths not supported)

3. On this local drive, create a folder namely 'msmq'
4. Take Message Queuing offline
5. Go to the properties of MSMQ and Click on the Storage Tab
6. Change the location to X:\msmq\storage on for all the sections on this screen. (Message Files Folder, Message Logger Folder, Transaction Logger Folder)

NOTE: - X: is the new local drive for MSMQ

7. Click Apply and OK to acknowledge all the prompts
8. Bring Message Queuing online

Now try to cluster the MSMQ and it should work fine.

Just a note on MSMQ in a cluster: On a cluster you have MSMQ installed on each node. Each node has its own MSMQ installed locally (not part of the cluster). When the cluster is being configured and you create an MSMQ resource, the PhysicalDisk resource that you add as a dependency for the MSMQ resource will become the disk/folder for the MSMQ data on the cluster. The MSMQ that is installed on each node is completely seperate from the cluster.

So Frank's guide is complete. You just need to leave the local msmq alone and let the deployment scanner complain about it.

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