Installing on Windows Server Cluster
Preparation
Before you start an installation on a Microsoft Windows cluster, you must prepare a cluster. Clusters are used for increasing the availability of a server. The server can be used for the Master Application Server (MAS) or Application Server (AS). The Installation Wizard takes care for some specific steps.
To start with a cluster aware installation (active/passive) of LN, it is required to start with a normal cluster installation on the first cluster node. This node must own the cluster disk where LN needs to be installed.
For the specific installation procedure of the database that you want to install on a Windows Server cluster, check your database vendor documentation
Installation
A shared staging area must be used when running the installation on all nodes. The installation on subsequent nodes uses the logging files from the previous nodes.
Share the setup files between all nodes. This helps you to specify the required data in the Installation Wizard. Through this Installation Wizard, you use the same environment name and destination directory on all nodes of the cluster. Save the installation files on a shared disk or folder. In that way the Installation Wizard can automatically gather the data that is specified during the installation on the first cluster node.
The differences between a normal installation and the installation on a cluster is discussed in Installation on first cluster node.