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Cluster Disaster Recovery Requirements

You must have the following information to recover failed clusters:

• Cluster name
• Cluster IP address and subnet mask
• Cluster node names
• Cluster node IP addresses
• The assignment of all drive letters including all private and shared hard disks
• All disk signatures (To obtain disk signatures, run one of the following utilities:)
  • dumpcfg.exe for Windows 2003
  • DiskPart for Windows 2008 or Windows 2008 R2
• All disk numbering schemes (to find these schemes, select Administrative Tools, Computer Management, Disk Management and note the disk number matching each physical disk for each computer)
• Cluster group name
• Cluster preferred nodes
• Cluster fail over policies
• Cluster resource names
• Cluster resource types
• Cluster group membership
• Cluster resource owners
• Cluster resource dependencies
• Cluster restart properties