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Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) is a new feature that was introduced in Windows 2008 R2. If you want to read more about it, how it works, and how you can enable it. There is a lot of material out there that you can refer to: Windows 2008 R2 NLB & Failover Clustering http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd759255.aspx http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd630633(WS.10).aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/clustering/archive/2009/03/02/9453288.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/clustering/archive/2009/02...
Hi guys, It was very nice meeting you all yesterday at the re-birth of the Infrastructure & Management User Group. Below is the presentation for the main subject we talked about – “Windows 2008 R2 Overview”. We will continue next month, on December 17th with the subject “Active Directory improvements in Windows 2008 R2”. In the meantime, share your thoughts and interesting finds at the group site - http ://www.linkedin.com/groupRegistration?gid=2389097 Have a great weekend and take care! :) What's...
Hyper-V have an option to use CIFS/SMB file server share as your option for Failover Clustering storage. This solution can enable you to use Quick Migration and but only be truly highly available if you file share is also highly available. Important performance issue - Windows Server 2008 file server does increased performance for this type of workload. However, this is no way near FC\iSCSI configurations and should be used only after throughout utilization tests. Before and After Diagrams Lets describe...
After a couple of complex deployments, I would like to share some of our findings and recommendations. Quick Migrations & Clustering: Make sure you install this hotfix if you plan on using Failover Clusters. SCVMM does not support managing virtual machines if there is more than one virtual machine in a cluster group. Physical disk resource for the pass-through disk should be moved to the failover cluster node that hosts the virtual machine before it is added to the configuration of that virtual...
In order to boot a Hyper-V child partition (guest) from an iSCSI LUN you need to expose that LUN to the parent partition (host), make sure the LUN is set as an offline disk in the host and then use the Passthrough option to expose the disk to the guest as IDE (ATA). With that, you can successfully boot a Hyper-V guest from an iSCSI LUN. In fact, that works just the same for a fibre-channel LUN or SAS disks. Here’s what the configuration of that virtual disk would look like: There are also third-party...
The Microsoft iSCSI Software Initiator enables connection of a Windows host to an external iSCSI storage array using Ethernet NICs. This download can be installed on Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, and Windows 2000. For Vista and Windows Sever 2008, the iSCSI initiator is included. The Microsoft iSCSI software initiator makes it possible for businesses to take advantage of existing network infrastructure to enable block-based Storage Area Networks without having to invest in additional hardware...