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
Index
A
affinity rules
DRS groups and MSCS 33
enforcing and MSCS 30
MSCS 30, 31
AlwaysOn 14
anti-affinity rules, MSCS 30
automation level, MSCS 31
B
boot from SAN, MSCS 13
C
cluster across boxes, MSCS 8, 30
cluster in a box, MSCS 15, 30
clustering
MSCS physical hosts and virtual machines 9
MSCS virtual machines on one host 15
physical and virtual machines 25
virtual machines across hosts 19
compatibility mode
physical 19, 21, 22, 25
virtual 19, 25
D
Database Availability Group (DAG), MSCS 14
disks
adding to nodes 17, 18, 21
formatting 15
formatting MSCS 19
quorum 17, 21, 27
shared 17, 21, 27
DRS groups
host 32
MSCS 31, 32
virtual machine 32
E
eagerzeroedthick 15, 19
ESXi 25
Ethernet adapter 15
Ethernet adapters and MSCS 19
F
Fault Tolerance (FT), MSCS 10, 13
Fault Tolerance (FT) and MSCS 35
FCoE 12
Fibre Channel (FC) SAN 17
Fibre Channel (FC) SAN and MSCS 19
format
disks 15
disks MSCS 19
eagerzeroedthick 15, 19
H
hardware requirements, MSCS 10
high availability and MSCS, See vSphere HA
hosts, standby 25
I
iSCSI 11
iSCSI and MSCS 13
iSCSI SAN 13
L
LSI Logic Parallel 17, 21, 22, 27
LSI Logic SAS 17, 21, 22, 27
M
Microsoft Cluster Service (MSCS), installing 27
MSCS
boot from SAN 13
cluster across boxes 8
cluster in a box 8
cluster virtual machines on one host 8
Clustered Continuous Replication (CCR) 14
clustering configurations 7
clustering limitations 13
clustering requirements 10
clustering physical and virtual machines 9
Database Availability Group (DAG) 14
Database Availability Groups and Exchange
2010 14
disk format 10
DRS automation level 31
DRS groups 32
Fault Tolerance (FT) 10, 13
Fibre Channel (FC) SAN 7, 13
getting started 7
guest operating system requirements 10
hardware requirements 10
hardware version 7 13
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