I am going to setup a MSCS clustered EV environment with EV7 SP1. Had a few questions regarding the setup. The environment is 5 node Exchange SP2 backend clusters with 4 virtual nodes, 4 front-end Exchange SP2 servers, 2 ISA servers, 3 node EV cluster with 2 virtual servers. My question is
Q1. DNS aliases. I will create DNS aliases as EVserver1 pointing to virtual server 1. EVserver2 pointing to virtual server 2. Where to i pointing the Vaulsite alias to? evserver1 or evserver2.
2. Directory service and site. Should i join the second server to the site where the first server is? What is pro and con... Also what about the directory service on the second server. Do i need to create a separate directory service after installation of second server by using update service locations or does it get installed as part of installation of second server.
3. The 4 virtual Exchange backend servers will be distributed across the 2 virtual EV servers. I will put the /Enterprisevault url in the site properties. Will the users distributed across the EV servers have to manually search which is their vault servers or just typing http://Enterprisevault will take them to their respective vault server.