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Separate Virtual Machines in Failover Cluster Management
We are in the process of setting up a cluster for our HyperV environment. We have set up the two servers with Windows 2008 SP2 and have applied all of the HyperV and CluAdmin hotfixes we can find but to no avail. It is my understanding that each Virtual Machine that we are configuring will be its own Clustered service. But when we try to add an additional Virtual Machine, it puts it under the original Virtual Machine service/group that was initially created. We would like to try and load balance them, but evidently there are some dependencies that prevent that from happening. Instead of having the 5-10 individual services, we have just one for the active host.
Our configuration is as follows.
(2) HP DL360 G5 hosts booting from SAN.
Fiber-Channel attached disk made available to each server.
Each host has 64-GB of RAM, local C: (OS) and P: (PageFile) drives.
The quorum and Virtual Machine configuration files are on clustered disk and have drive letters Q: and D: respectively.
Since the configuraiton files are on D: the operation of the VMs is dependent on that being available. So...how can we set it up so that we have individual clustered Virtual Machine services?
The image depicts the two virtual machines listed under one virtual machine service
FailoverCluster.jpg
Our configuration is as follows.
(2) HP DL360 G5 hosts booting from SAN.
Fiber-Channel attached disk made available to each server.
Each host has 64-GB of RAM, local C: (OS) and P: (PageFile) drives.
The quorum and Virtual Machine configuration files are on clustered disk and have drive letters Q: and D: respectively.
Since the configuraiton files are on D: the operation of the VMs is dependent on that being available. So...how can we set it up so that we have individual clustered Virtual Machine services?
The image depicts the two virtual machines listed under one virtual machine service
FailoverCluster.jpg
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Yes, we found that we need to create separate LUNs for the configuration file as well as the boot, application and any other data volumes that each VM would be using.






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