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Assuming you already know how to set up a cluster? Doing it on VMWare won't be that much different. Just remember to set VM HA options to keep the two nodes off the same server in event of a failure.<br />
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Having said that, why not just use VM HA? Its much easier to manage.
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Assuming you already know how to set up a cluster? Doing it on VMWare won't be that much different. Just remember to set VM HA options to keep the two nodes off the same server in event of a failure.

Having said that, why not just use VM HA? Its much easier to manage.

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If this is for testing purposes I understand, but if this is for production I do not understand why using this on a VMware. And of course, if you have a vCenter with the HA and DRS license.<br />
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But if still want to implement this, check this:<br />
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<a href="http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1004617" rel="ugc nofollow">http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1004617</a><br />
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also<br />
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<a href="http://www.windowsitpro.com/article/virtualization/microsoft-clustering-and-vmware-high-availability.aspx" rel="ugc">http://www.windowsitpro.com/article/virtualization/microsoft-clustering-and-vmware-high-availability.aspx</a><br />
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Jail
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Hi

If this is for testing purposes I understand, but if this is for production I do not understand why using this on a VMware. And of course, if you have a vCenter with the HA and DRS license.

But if still want to implement this, check this:

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1004617 [http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1004617]

also

http://www.windowsitpro.com/article/virtualization/microsoft-clustering-and-vmware-high-availability.aspx [http://www.windowsitpro.com/article/virtualization/microsoft-clustering-and-vmware-high-availability.aspx]

Jail

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I was able to configure the cluster without shared storage and with a node majority file share
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I was able to configure the cluster without shared storage and with a node majority file share

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I want to setup a 2 node Windows 2008 R2 multi site cluster on VMware 4....can this be done and what are the steps? There will be an ESX host on each site, and one node on each site. Replication will be handled by NetApp
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I want to setup a 2 node Windows 2008 R2 multi site cluster on VMware 4....can this be done and what are the steps? There will be an ESX host on each site, and one node on each site. Replication will be handled by NetApp

How do I configure Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 multi site cluster on VMware 4

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VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.

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