Users Guide

Contents 5
5 Administering High Availability
for Hyper-V
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Changing the configuration of HA VMs . . . . . . . . . 45
For Configuring Changes that Impact the
VM's HW Profile
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For Configuring Changes that DO NOT Impact
the VM's HW Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Adding Passthrough Disks to HA VMs
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Sharing LUNs Between HA VMs . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
HA VM Resource Group Names
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Cluster Resource Group for HA VMs Reported
as "Partially Online"
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Configuring Rules for Associating Hosts to
HA VMs
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Setting Host Preferences for HA VMs
. . . . . . . 49
Blocking HA VMs from Running on
Certain Hosts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Converting an Existing Non-HA VM to a HA VM . . . . 49
Converting an HA VM to a Non-HA VM
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A Using SMB/CIFS Shares in Hyper-V . . . . 53
B Using Mount Points in Hyper-V . . . . . . . . 55