Professional Windows® PowerShell for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1

Chapter 13: Single Copy Clusters

373

The next component is to format the newly created disks. When you assign drive letters to the

($Disk#_Letter) variables, those variables are then appended with a colon (:) and formatted using

the portion of the following script. The last two commands set variables that are used in the cluster

management section.

$Disk1_Volume=”Quorum”

$Disk2_Volume=”Data”

$Disk3_Volume=”Logs”

format $Disk1_Letter.Insert(1,”:”) /FS:NTFS /V:$Disk1_Volume /y

format $Disk2_Letter.Insert(1,”:”) /FS:NTFS /V:$Disk2_Volume /y

format $Disk3_Letter.Insert(1,”:”) /FS:NTFS /V:$Disk3_Volume /y

$Disk2_Drive=$Disk2_Letter.Insert(1,”:”)

$Disk3_Drive=$Disk3_Letter.Insert(1,”:”)

Figure 13-8

c13.indd 373c13.indd 373 12/17/07 3:58:03 PM12/17/07 3:58:03 PM

Part III: Working with PowerShell in a Production Environment

374

Figure 13 - 9 shows the script formatting each of the disk drives that were created in Figure 13 - 8 .

Figure 13-9

Once again, verify the formatting using disk manager, as shown in Figure 13 - 10 .

By using PowerShell to interact with common command - line executables, you have configured the

service account user and OU for the cluster, configured the network settings on both servers, and

prepared the shared disks for the cluster installation.

c13.indd 374c13.indd 374 ...