Cluster Prep

YES! It is finally released to the public. The Microsoft Cluster Configuration Wizard released today to production.

Clusprep, as it is known with affection, can be used to test the configuration before configuring for clustering. The tool can be installed on either node or another computer altogether. It should be installed on a 32 bit server, however, even then it can still inventory and test the configuration of both 32 bit and64 bit systems. Clusprep tests the hardware configuration and evaluates the OS, patches, and hot fixes.

While clusprep is not 100% fool proof, if the potential nodes all pass through the tool properly, you can be pretty confident that clustering will configure without any issues.

Fibre Channel InformationTool (fcinfo)

Released on Monday (02/19/07), this tool can be run from Windows Server 2003 or Windows 2000 to enumerate disks and configuration information for attached SANs.

Download it here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=73d7b879-55b2-4629-8734-b0698096d3b1&displaylang=en&tm