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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
4 Click Finish to complete creating the virtual machine.
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 Finish to complete creating the device.
9 Install a Windows Server operating system on the virtual machine.
Add Hard Disks to the Second Node for a Cluster of
Physical and Virtual Machines
When you add hard disks to the second node, you set up the disks to point to the quorum disk and
shared storage disks, if any, for the first node. The setup allows shared access to clustered services and
data.
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 RDM Disk, and click Add.
3 Select the LUN that is used by the physical machine.
4 Select the datastore, which is also the location of the boot disk.
5 Select Physical as the compatibility mode.
6 Expand the New Hard Disk. From the Virtual Device Node drop-down menu, select a new SCSI
controller (for example, 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.
8 In the New Virtual Machine - Edit Settings dialog box, expand SCSI controller and select the
Change Type drop-down menu.
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