Quick question... How can you setup two clustered virtual machines within a
single Hyper-V server? More specifically, how do u setup the shared disk so
both virtual machine nodes can access them? I know this can be done with
virtual server by using a shared SCSI controller but I can't seem to find
this similar functionality in Hyper-V.

Have a look at this.

http://blogs.technet.com/roblarson/a...-v-beta-1.aspx

"MCSEGuy" <MCSEGuy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Quick question... How can you setup two clustered virtual machines within
> a
> single Hyper-V server? More specifically, how do u setup the shared disk
> so
> both virtual machine nodes can access them? I know this can be done with
> virtual server by using a shared SCSI controller but I can't seem to find
> this similar functionality in Hyper-V.

Sorry, that is a host cluster, not a vm cluster.

"Bill Grant" <not.available@online> wrote in message
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> Have a look at this.
>
> http://blogs.technet.com/roblarson/a...-v-beta-1.aspx
>
> "MCSEGuy" <MCSEGuy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:A960F4F7-5650-4867-A141-7F3248C5BDBB@microsoft.com...
>> Quick question... How can you setup two clustered virtual machines within
>> a
>> single Hyper-V server? More specifically, how do u setup the shared disk
>> so
>> both virtual machine nodes can access them? I know this can be done with
>> virtual server by using a shared SCSI controller but I can't seem to find
>> this similar functionality in Hyper-V.
>

Hello,

with Hyper-V could you create a "Virtual Cluster" with iSCSI as shared-disk.

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Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind regards - Alexander Ortha (Microsoft)

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"MCSEGuy" <MCSEGuy@discussions.microsoft.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> Quick question... How can you setup two clustered virtual machines within
> a
> single Hyper-V server? More specifically, how do u setup the shared disk
> so
> both virtual machine nodes can access them? I know this can be done with
> virtual server by using a shared SCSI controller but I can't seem to find
> this similar functionality in Hyper-V.

As Alexander sais: using iSCSI is the trick. I've succesfully built a
cluster on Hyper-V using StarWind iSCSI.

You'll find that MS has just released v2.06 of the iSCSI initiator
(client software). As far as I know only datacenter and storage server
have iSCSI target built-in, so you'll have to use a third party such as
StarWind.

If you want to try & build a linux box for storage you might want to
look into freeNAS of openfiler.

regards,

Paul

Alexander Ortha [MS] wrote:
> Hello,
>
> with Hyper-V could you create a "Virtual Cluster" with iSCSI as
> shared-disk.
>

Microsoft has changed the storage requirements for Failover Clustering in
Windows Server 2008. No more parallel SCSI support - this means that the
"traditional" way of doing this in Virtual Server 2005 or now in Hyper-V
will not work.

iSCSI is your new best friend.

Hope this s,
--Ryan

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Ryan Sokolowski
MVP - Windows Server - Clustering
MCSE, CCNA, CCDA, BCFP


"MCSEGuy" <MCSEGuy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Quick question... How can you setup two clustered virtual machines within
> a
> single Hyper-V server? More specifically, how do u setup the shared disk
> so
> both virtual machine nodes can access them? I know this can be done with
> virtual server by using a shared SCSI controller but I can't seem to find
> this similar functionality in Hyper-V.