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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
Procedure
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Set up the physical machine using the settings listed in the table.
Component Requirement
Windows Cluster Administrator
application
Advanced minimum configuration if Windows 2003 is used.
Network adapters At least two.
Storage Access to the same storage on a SAN as the ESXi host on which the
corresponding virtual machine will run.
Operating system Installed on each physical machine.
Create the Second Node for a Cluster of Physical and
Virtual Machines
To create the second node, you set up a virtual machine for clustering across physical machines.
You configure the virtual network adapters to handle virtual machine traffic for the cluster: a private
network connection for the private heartbeat and a public network connection.
Prerequisites
Before you begin, make sure that the shared storage that is visible from the physical machine that you
configured in Create the First Node for a Cluster of Physical and Virtual Machines is also visible from the
virtual machine.
Procedure
1 Open the vSphere Client and connect to the vCenter Server system.
Use the user name and password of the user who will have administrator permissions on the virtual
machine.
2 In the vSphere Client, right-click the host and select New Virtual Machine.
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.
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