Technical Lab 1 Exchange Server

Sorry for my English is not my native language, ok today im going to show you how to build a clustered exchange solution and then we are going to balance the cas servers with a load balancer appliance.

Prerequisites for the lab:

Virtualization Software for the lab
Hyper-V, VMware Workstation or QEMU-KVM
Create 2 Network in the hypervisor.
Lan Network and the Heartbeat network for the exchange cluster.

One Domain Controller
hostname dcserver01
fqdn = mybusiness.local
OS = Windows 2008 R2 SP1

Two Exchange Servers, Roles = Mailbox, Cas and Hub Transport,
hostname = EX1, EX2.
IP Address: 172.16.17.11 For EX-1
IP Address: 172.16.17.12 For EX-2
For Heartbeat use: 10.0.0.1 and 10.0.0.2
OS = Windows 2008 R2 SP1
Cas Name = mail.mybusiness.local
Mail Software = Exchange Server 2010 SP1.

Two Load Balance Server.
for this we are going to use this software "zen load balancer" it's free and is damn good.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/zenloadbalancer/files/Distro/zenloadbalancer-distro_2stable.iso/download

Network Diagram 

Database Replication Diagram

Load Balancer Diagram

Video 1 Domain Controller installation Using Hyper-V with Windows 8.

Video 2 OS Installation, Exchange Installation and cluster configuration

(I just post the installation of one server replicate this to the other server EX-2)
Exchange Prerequisites:

just open a powershell and write this commands:


Add-WindowsFeature RSAT-ADDS
(restart is needed after this commands )

Add-WindowsFeature Web-Metabase, Web-Lgcy-Mgmt-Console, Web-Server, Web-ISAPI-Ext, Web-Metabase, Web-Lgcy-Mgmt-Console, Web-Basic-Auth, Web-ASP, Web-Digest-Auth, Web-Windows-Auth, Web-Dyn-Compression, Web-Net-Ext, RPC-over-HTTP-proxy, AS-NET-Framework, NET-HTTP-Activation

install this filter packs
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=17062
(I think we need this for the Outlook Web Access permits to search messages over the web interface.)

Video 3 Cluster Config for mailbox Exchange,

Video 4 Zen Load Balancer Installation and configuration (Pending)