Frederic - Networking - Team A

Week 15

Brett helped us on the client connection problem.

He changed some codes, so the game client could add a specific IP address to connect to as the server.

Still, nothing...

Frederic - Networking - Team A

Week 12 - 13

• Windows 2008 launch the Stronghold engine
• ... but not through the clusters

After many tests and research, to make the engine work on W2008, we had to :

• install a new graphic card (the onboard one, even with updated driver was not enough)
• update the driver
• and more importantly, update the DirectX10 on Windows 2008

After that, the game was running (as client or as dedicated server). A game client could connect to the dedicated and play.

But still, when the dedicated game server is put in the clusters, game client could not connect to the server (no server detected).

Frederic - Networking - Team A

Week 09 - 10 - 11

• Clusters are operational
• Testing with the Stronghold engine, but doesd not work
• Testing with the Quake3 engine : work

That took a lot of testing, cause at first, we thought we did the installation of the clusters wrong. So we did it again, but it turned out Windows 2008 would not launch the Stronghold Engine. 

We swapped to Quake3 engine, and after some testings, the game server worked, and we could connect with a client, using the clusters.

So back to the Stronghold engine and trying to find a solution for it.

Frederic - Networking - Team A

Week 06 - 07 - 08

Change of plan. Instead of virtual machine, we'll be using real ones.

• 3 machines for our network : enough to create a DC, 2 clustser servers and 1 XP for the virtual disks.
• Creating and testing all this to make it work.

Frederic - Networking - Team A

Week 03 - 04 -05

• More research on the creation of clusters
• Tests on virtual machine, using Windows 2008
• Use of Starwind to create virtual iSCSI drives for the storage and quorum disk

Frederic - Networking - Team A

Week 01 - Week 02

• Repartition of tasks
• Creation of the wiki
• Research and implementation of information on the wiki

Team A - Clustering

It seems Windows2008 won't make the game work properly.
We've been trying different combination. The game server work on XP, work on W2003 but not on W2008.
We are trying to update the DX10 on W2008. That's may be the solution.
More updates later.

VirtualBox

We've been searching a way to run 3D games with virtualization software. The easiest way seems to be using VirtualBox.
Testing going on.

Testing Fail Over Clusters

Frederic - Network Team A

We've been testing "Stronghold" with our F.O.C.

We will try to set this up with 4 machines, using a switch.

Fred 9/03/09

Topology draft added to the Team A Wiki. Waiting for Visio for a neater one.

WinServer 2008 Installation

Proceed with installation of Window Server 2008 (Enterprise or Data Centre) to test the Clustering Service.

News

Updated our PBWiki (some more information about the Window Server 2008 Clustering Service), catch up with the readings. Also waiting for the ISO of 2008, to do some testing.