6.5.1
Table Of Contents
- Setup for Failover Clustering and Microsoft Cluster Service
- Contents
- About Setup for Failover Clustering and Microsoft Cluster Service
- Getting Started with MSCS
- Clustering Configuration Overview
- Hardware and Software Requirements for Clustering
- Supported Shared Storage Configurations
- PSP_RR Support for MSCS
- iSCSI Support for MSCS
- FCoE Support for MSCS
- vMotion support for MSCS
- vSphere MSCS Setup Limitations
- MSCS and Booting from a SAN
- Set up CCR and DAG Groups
- Setting up AlwaysOn Availability Groups with SQL Server 2012
- Cluster Virtual Machines on One Physical Host
- Cluster Virtual Machines Across Physical Hosts
- Cluster Physical and Virtual Machines
- Use MSCS in an vSphere HA and vSphere DRS Environment
- vSphere MSCS Setup Checklist
- Index
Set up VM-Host Affinity Rules for DRS Groups (MSCS)
Create VM-Host anity rules to specify whether the members of a selected virtual machine DRS group can
run on the members of a specic host DRS group.
Prerequisites
Create virtual machine DRS groups that contain one or more MSCS virtual machines as described in “Create
a Virtual Machine DRS Group (MSCS),” on page 32.
Create host DRS groups that contain one or more ESXi hosts, as described in “Create a Host DRS Group
(MSCS),” on page 32.
Procedure
1 Browse to the cluster in the vSphere Web Client navigator.
2 Click .
3 Under , select VM/Host Rules and click Add.
4 In the Create VM/Host Rule dialog box, type a name for the rule.
5 From the Type menu, select Virtual Machines to Hosts.
6 Select the virtual machine DRS group and the host DRS group to which the rule applies.
For example, select VMGroup_1 and HostGroup_1.
7 Select Must run on hosts in group.
8 Click OK.
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