6.5.1

Table Of Contents

Contents

About Setup for Failover Clustering and Microsoft Cluster Service 5

Geing Started with MSCS 7

Clustering Conguration Overview 7

Hardware and Software Requirements for Clustering 10

Supported Shared Storage Congurations 11

PSP_RR Support for MSCS 11

iSCSI Support for MSCS 11

FCoE Support for MSCS 12

vMotion support for MSCS 12

vSphere MSCS Setup Limitations 13

MSCS and Booting from a SAN 13

Seing up Clustered Continuous Replication or Database Availability Groups with Exchange 14

Seing up AlwaysOn Availability Groups with SQL Server 2012 14

Cluster Virtual Machines on One Physical Host 15

Create the First Node for Clusters on One Physical Host 15

Create Additional Nodes for Clusters on One Physical Host 16

Add Hard Disks to the First Node for Clusters on One Physical Host 17

Add Hard Disks to Additional Nodes for Clusters on One Physical Host 18

Cluster Virtual Machines Across Physical Hosts 19

Create the First Node for MSCS Clusters Across Physical Hosts 19

Create Additional Nodes for Clusters Across Physical Hosts 20

Add Hard Disks to the First Node for Clusters Across Physical Hosts 21

Add Hard Disks to Additional Nodes for Clusters Across Physical Hosts 22

Cluster Physical and Virtual Machines 25

Create the First Node for a Cluster of Physical and Virtual Machines 25

Create the Second Node for a Cluster of Physical and Virtual Machines 26

Add Hard Disks to the Second Node for a Cluster of Physical and Virtual Machines 27

Install Microsoft Cluster Service 27

Create Additional Physical-Virtual Pairs 28

Use MSCS in an vSphere HA and vSphere DRS Environment 29

Enable vSphere HA and vSphere DRS in a Cluster (MSCS) 29

Create VM-VM Anity Rules for MSCS Virtual Machines 30

Enable Strict Enforcement of Anity Rules (MSCS) 30

Set DRS Automation Level for MSCS Virtual Machines 31

Using vSphere DRS Groups and VM-Host Anity Rules with MSCS Virtual Machines 31

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