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Hi all

I want to upgrade our standalone MQ Server to HA infrastructure.
Original Infrastructure is work fine in production server.
only 1 server, named Server A. The MQ is installed at local drive
Windows 2003 enterprise server
IBM Websphere MQ Series 6.0.2.2

New extend Infrastructure
Two server, passive mode, Server A is primary and Server B(new server) is a failover server.
When Server A down, Server B will auto startup.
Two server share Queue Manager Data and log in SAN Shared disk under Veritas cluster software version 3.3.782.0

I've detailed the steps I planed to do, If anyone done this successfully, could you please
take as look and let me know if anything I've left out?

Thanks a lot.

SAN disk have Q and Z drive.

step1: At Server A, Stop MQ Service and queue manager and excute hamvmqm to change the MQDATA and log directory.
(Backup up the directory before hamvmqm MQ configuration to SAN Disk )

hamvmqm /m <QMGR> /dd "Q:\WebSphere MQ" /ld "Z:\WebSphere MQ\log"

step2:Testing the Server A check if MQ can work fine.

Step3: At Server B, Install MQ Server and point the MQData and log directory at removed disk.
(The patition is named to Q and Z drive)
The MQ Setting is the same as Server A.

Step4: Change primary to B server by VCS and check if Server B MQ is work fine.