Users Guide

4 Contents
Network Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Cluster Network Types
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Best Practice Recommendations
. . . . . . . . . . 26
Recommended Configurations
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Design for iSCSI-Based Configurations
. . . . . . 27
Design for Fiber Channel Configurations
. . . . . . 29
Design for Direct-Attach SAS
Configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Integration between Hyper-V and Windows
Failover Clustering
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Microsoft KB951308 QFE for Hyper-V
Host Clusters
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
4 Implementing High Availability in
Hyper-V . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Implementing Hyper-V Host Clusters . . . . . . . . . . 35
Preparing the Systems
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Configure the Failover Clustering Feature and
Hyper-V Role . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Creating Virtual Machines that will be
HA VMs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Enabling VMs as HA VMs
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Migrating HA VMs Across Hosts in
the Cluster. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Hyper-V Host Clusters on Server Core. . . . . . . . . . 41
Setting up the Server Core System for
Hyper-V and Failover Clustering
. . . . . . . . . . 41
Setting up Remote Management to
Server Core
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Remote Management from Windows
Server 2008 Full install . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Remote management from Windows Vista
. . . . . 43