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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
9 Select the appropriate type of controller, depending on your operating system.
Operating System Type of Controller
Windows Server 2003 SP1 and SP2 LSI Logic Parallel
Windows Server 2008 SP2 and above LSI Logic SAS
Windows Server 2008 SP2 and above VMware Paravirtual
For supported guest operating systems see Table 6‑2.
10 Click OK.
11 In the New Virtual Machine - Edit Settings dialog box, expand SCSI controller and select the SCSI
Bus Sharing drop-down menu. Set SCSI Bus Sharing to Physical and click OK.
The virtual machine is connected to a public network and a private network with two virtual switches, and
is connected to the quorum disk on FC SAN and the virtual machine virtual disk on local or remote
storage.
Add Hard Disks to the First Node for Clusters Across
Physical Hosts with VVol
In an MSCS cluster, storage disks are shared between nodes. You set up a quorum disk and an optional
shared storage disk with VVol Storage.
Prerequisites
Before you add hard disks to the first node, complete the following tasks:
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For each virtual machine, configure the guest operating system’s private and public IP addresses.
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Ask your SAN administrator for the location of unformatted SAN LUNs. The hard disks you create in
this task must point to SAN LUNs.
Procedure
1 In the vSphere Client, select the newly created virtual machine, right-click and select Edit Settings.
2 Click the New device drop-down menu, select New Hard Disk, and click Add.
3 Select the disk size.
4 Under Disk Provisioning, select either Thick or Thin Provision.
5 Expand the New Hard Disk.
6 From the Virtual Device Node drop-down menu, select a new SCSI controller (for example, select
SCSI (1:0)).
Note You must select a new virtual device node. You cannot use SCSI 0.
7 Click OK.
The wizard creates a new hard disk and a new SCSI controller.
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