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Windows 2012 / SAN/Hyper-V
I have an ISCSI SAN, (3) servers running Windows 2012 Datacenter and Hyper-V installed. My goal is to convert my physical servers to virtual servers; utilizing the (3) 2012 boxes as hosts and the SAN to hold all the data.
I used the iSCSI initiator on all (3) hosts and can see the SAN in Disk Management. I'm a bit lost at this point in how to setup the hosts so that they all see the same storage on the SAN and can take over a VM if a host were to fail. I do have SCCM and can utilize this.
I haven't found a whitepaper or TechNet article that really helps.
I used the iSCSI initiator on all (3) hosts and can see the SAN in Disk Management. I'm a bit lost at this point in how to setup the hosts so that they all see the same storage on the SAN and can take over a VM if a host were to fail. I do have SCCM and can utilize this.
I haven't found a whitepaper or TechNet article that really helps.
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Your 3 physical boxes need to be dedicated to Hyper-V and nothing else. If they are running production workloads currently, then you will need to juggle things around until you have 1 free. Then use that one to create the cluster. You can add the others to the cluster later.
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Thank you for your help. Finally able to move forward on the project. The answers all helped, but the tutorial from Mahesh showed the steps I needed. He gets the Best Solution tag. Only catch, it appears I must have a Windows 2012 DC. Alas, building the Cluster/SAN was to allow the creation of the 2012 DC to migrate the Domain from 2003 to 2012. So a bit stalled until I build a physical 2012 DC, upgrade the domain and then should be able to build the cluster. Wii.