TPreston Posted May 30, 2013 Share Posted May 30, 2013 I read in the wsus 3 notes that it can be configured in a cluster for high availibity Configure servers in a cluster WSUS 3.0 servers can now be configured in a cluster for fault tolerance. Such servers must all point to the same SQL Server database instance, which can also be clustered. Has anyone any expierance with this ? We allready have a sql 2012 failover cluster and TMG (multicast NLB). I cant find any guides on how to set it up just saying its possible http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverwsus/thread/10e28445-71c3-4489-be9c-8fa47bf795d2/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cluberti Posted May 30, 2013 Share Posted May 30, 2013 Note that WSUS 3.0 is really just an IIS application, so active/passive cluster implementations are supported (technically it worked previously in simple configurations, but was unsupported and thus not recommended). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TPreston Posted June 4, 2013 Author Share Posted June 4, 2013 OK posting my solution for this project. I couldn't find any information on how to do this everything referred to the old wsus 3.2 and clustering looked like a PITA to setup but I found a solution. First I created the 4 wsus servers with the following logon script Dism /online /enable-feature /featurename:UpdateServices /allDism /online /enable-feature /featurename:UpdateServices-Services /allDism /online /enable-feature /featurename:UpdateServices-Database /allDism /online /enable-feature /featurename:NetworkLoadBalancingManagementClient /allDism /online /enable-feature /featurename:NetworkLoadBalancingFullServer /allDism /online /enable-feature /featurename:UpdateServices-UI /all[/CODE] And added 4 500GB VHDs to each VM for storing the updates (for some reason it wouldn't take E:\ as a location to store updates looking at the logs it seems to be an issue with the \ char in the string so I used E:\\ which worked) I ran the post install on the first WSUS server which created a susdb on the sql cluster and followed this guide to detach and rename it to WSUS1 [CODE]http://www.whitwo.com/wp/?p=85[/CODE] I repeated this for WSUS2 WSUS3 and WSUS 4. Finally I enabled configured NLB and pointed the intranet storage location to the NLB virtual IP address used this guide [CODE]http://beta-learn-iis-dit.neudesic.com/page.aspx/511/achieving-high-availability-and-scalability---arr-and-nlb/[/CODE] Its working fine now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawrenceGarvin Posted June 10, 2013 Share Posted June 10, 2013 I read in the wsus 3 notes that it can be configured in a cluster for high availibity Configure servers in a cluster WSUS can be configured in an =NLB= cluster ... not a failover cluster. It is discussed in the WSUS Deployment Guide, in the section Configure WSUS for Network Load Balancing. It does require a back-end SQL Server; however, the SQL Server does not need to be clustered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
technord Posted June 10, 2013 Share Posted June 10, 2013 People still use WSUS? See if you can get licenced for System Centre 2012 (or wait for the R2 release). Even if the only thing you use is the WSUS feature, it's a million times better than basic WSUS (Yes I know the underlying foundation is WSUS, but the features are much needed in the Enterprise). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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