How to Add a Mounted Drive to an Exchange Virtual Server in a Windows Server Cluster

This topic explains how to add a mounted drive to an Exchange Virtual Server in a Windows Server cluster.

Before You Begin

This procedure applies only to server clusters running Windows Server 2003. Mounted drives not supported in Windows 2000 server clusters.

Procedure

To add a mounted drive to an Exchange Virtual Server in a Windows Server cluster

1. Open Cluster Administrator.

2. In the console tree, right-click the Exchange Virtual Server, and then click Bring Online.

3. Ensure the disks to be mounted have been added to the Exchange Virtual Server:

   • If the root disk resource already exists, see How to Move an Existing Disk Resource into an Exchange Virtual Server in a Windows Server Cluster.

   • If the root disk resource does not exist, see How to Create a Physical Disk Resource for an Exchange Virtual Server in a Windows Server Cluster.

4. To add a disk to be mounted on the root disk to the Exchange Virtual Server, perform the following steps:

   1. Right-click the physical disk resource and then click Properties.

   2. In Properties, click the Dependencies tab.

   3. Click Modify.

   4. In Modify Dependencies, add the root disk to the list of dependencies.

5. Click OK twice.

For More Information

For detailed information about how to mount a disk to a root disk, see "Using NTFS mounted drives" in Windows Server 2003 Help.