After my arduous cluster experience, I’ve finally got a cluster sort of working in VMware. I had to give up on using iSCSI, which seemed to be highly unstable with the Microsoft initiator, using either the Linux-based iSCSI Enterprise Target or the Rocket Division target.

I’m working on adding support for Microsoft Exchange clusters to the next version of my company’s product. In order to do that, I need to have an Exchange cluster to develop/test on. Ironically, assembling Windows machines into a cluster seems to decrease their stability at an exponential rate.