Installation guide

C H A P T E R 1 0 Configuration for Clustering
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Note: Shared disks must be attached to a separate SCSI controller. Select SCSI
1:1
8. By default, the disk mode is set to persistent. Click Persistent to verify the disk
mode.
9. Click OK.
Note: A new virtual disk and SCSI Controller 1 are now visible on the hardware
tab.
10. Click Edit next to SCSI Controller 1 and change the bus sharing from none to
virtual.
From the Bus Sharing drop-down list, select virtual, then Click OK.
Repeat step 1–step 9 to create an additional shared virtual disk using SCSI 1:2 with the
filename shared2.dsk.
Network Device Configuration — You need an additional virtual network
adapter to be used by Microsoft Cluster Service to maintain the cluster heartbeat. To
add this adapter, click the Hardware tab for this virtual machine, then take the
following steps:
1. Click Add Device.
2. Click Network Adapter.
3. From the Device Binding drop-down list choose vmnet_0. This attaches the
second Ethernet adapter to a private network between the cluster nodes.
4. Click OK.
You have created the first cluster node virtual machine.
Installing the Guest Operating System
Now you need to install Windows 2000 Advanced Server in the virtual machine you
just created
1. Insert the Windows 2000 Advanced Server CD in the ESX Server machine’s CD-
ROM drive.
2. In the management interface, click the blue terminal icon next to the virtual
machine’s name to launch the remote console.
3. Log on as the user who created the virtual machine or as root.
4. Click Power On.
5. Install Windows 2000 Advanced Server on the disk connected to scsi0.