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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
- VVol 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
- Create the First Node for MSCS Clusters Across Physical Hosts
- Create Additional Nodes for Clusters Across Physical Hosts
- Add Hard Disks to the First Node for Clusters Across Physical Hosts
- Add Hard Disks to the First Node for Clusters Across Physical Hosts with VVol
- Add Hard Disks to Additional Nodes for Clusters Across Physical Hosts
- Cluster Physical and Virtual Machines
- Use MSCS in an vSphere HA and vSphere DRS Environment
- vSphere MSCS Setup Checklist
3 Proceed through the wizard to create the virtual machine.
Page Action
Creation type Select Create a new virtual machine.
Name and folder Enter a name and select a location.
Compute resource Select a cluster, host, vApp or resource pool to run this virtual machine.
Storage Select a datastore as the location for the virtual machine configuration file and the
virtual machine disk (.vmdk) file.
Compatibility The host or cluster suports more than one VMware virtual machine version.
Select a compatibility for the virtual machine.
Guest operating system Select the guest operating system that you intend to install.
Customize hardware Select virtual hardware, advanced virtual machine options, and SDRS rules.
Ready to Complete Review your selections.
4 Click Finish to complete creating the virtual machine.
Note Do not add shared cluster disks at this time.
5 In the vSphere Client, select the newly created virtual machine, right-click and select Edit Settings.
6 Click the New device drop-down menu, select Network, and click Add.
7 In the New Virtual Machine - Edit Settings dialog box, expand Network adapter. Select the adapter
type and network label.
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If you selected a private network for the first network adapter, you must select a public network for
this network adapter.
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If you selected a public network for the first network adapter, you must select a private network
adapter.
8 Click OK.
9 Install a Windows Server operating system on the virtual machine.
Create Additional Nodes for Clusters on One Physical
Host
Create a template from the first virtual machine and deploy the second node from that template. You can
have up to five nodes on Windows Server 2008.
Caution If you clone a virtual machine with an RDM setup, the cloning process converts the RDMs to
virtual disks. Unmap all RDMs before cloning, and remap them after cloning is complete.
Procedure
1 In the vSphere Client, right-click the first virtual machine you created and select Clone > Clone to
Template.
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