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Chapter 13 Configuring Clustering on Windows Hosts
Inaddition,thefollowingarerequiredtosharedisks:
AsecondaryvirtualSCSIhostadapter .
Oneormorepreallocatedvirtualdisksthataresharedandareattachedtothe
secondarySCSIhostadapter.
NotethefollowingaboutvirtualPCIslotsinthevirtualmachines:
EachvirtualmachinebydefaulthassixPCIslotsavailable.
Thisclusterconfiguration(twonetworkadaptersandtwoSCSIhostbusadapters)
usesfouroftheseslots.
OnemorePCIslotisavailableforathirdnetworkadapterifneeded.(Thesixthslot
isusedbythevirtualdisplayadapter.)
Ifthevirtualmachine’sbootpartitionisonanIDEvirtualdisk,thepartition
occupiesoneofthePCIslots.
Creating a Two-Node Cluster with Microsoft Clustering Services
ThissectiondescribeshowtocreateatwonodeclusterusingMicrosoftClustering
ServicesonasingleVMwareServerhostusingthefollowing:
SQL1=hostnameofnode1ofthecluster
SQL2=hostnameofnode2ofthecluster
SQLCLUSTER=publichostnameofthecluster
Theprocedurestocreateatwonodeclusterincludesthefollowinghighlevelsteps:
Createthebasevirtualmachinewithtwovirtualdisksthataresharedbetweenthe
virtualmachinesinthecluster.Thisvirtualmachineservesasatemplateforthe
secondnode.
Clonethebasenodeanduseitcreatethesecondnode.
Installclusteringsoftwareonbothnodes.
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OTEThevirtualdisksusedtostoretheoperatingsystemandclusteringsoftwarefor
thevirtualmachines(nodes)intheclusterdonothavetobepreallocatedvirtualdisks.