Adding the Volume Manager Disk Group resources to the Exchange group

Exchange 2007 installation creates an application group with resources required by Exchange. You need to move to the Exchange Group the Volume Manager Disk Group (VMDG) resource that you added to the cluster quorum group for the First Storage Group installation.

Also add to the Exchange group the Volume Manager Disk Group resources for any other disk groups that you created for Exchange.

To move the Volume Manager Disk Group resource to the application group

  1. In the quorum group, right-click the resource you created for the Exchange First Storage Group and select the option to move it to another group.
  2. Select the Exchange group as the target for the move and click OK.

To add Volume Manager Disk Group resources for the application

  1. In the left pane (tree view) of the Failover Cluster Management tool, right-click the resource group under Services and Applications. Select Add a resource > More resources > Add Volume Manager Disk Group. A Volume Manager disk group resource is automatically created.

  2. In the center panel under Disk Drives, double-click New Volume Manager Disk Group (in the center pane) to open the Properties dialog box. You can also right-click New Volume Manager Disk Group and select Properties.
  3. In the General tab of the Properties dialog box, type the resource name for the New Volume Manager Disk Group (for example, ExchDG).
  4. In the Properties tab, type the name of the disk group for which you want to add a resource.
  5. Click OK to close the dialog box.
  6. To bring the resource online, right-click the newly named disk group and click Bring this resource online.

Once the Volume Manager Disk Group resources are created, you can set the database dependencies.

See Setting the database dependency on the disk group resource.