Step-by-Step: Building a FREE Hyper-V Server 2012 Cluster - Part 1 of 2

re: Step-by-Step: Building a FREE Hyper-V Server 2012 Cluster - Part 1 of 2

KeithMayer — Tue, 14 May 2013 23:29:54 GMT

Hi B,

Technically, I've seen the zoning done both ways ... but generally most SAN vendors prefer each of the connections to be zoned individually and then masked into a common set of LUNs ( formatted as Clustered Shared Volumes - CSVs ) on the SAN array.

Hope this helps!

re: Step-by-Step: Building a FREE Hyper-V Server 2012 Cluster - Part 1 of 2

bburns — Sat, 11 May 2013 16:55:10 GMT

I am in the process of getting a 2012 cluster set up with 4 blade servers. Each blade has two fibre connections to our two fabric switches (4 connections to each switch). My question is two-fold. First, do all 4 switch connections get zoned as one or should they be zoned as individual just as any physical host would be? After that do all 4 blades connect to the same LUN on the SAN or do they all have there own LUNs and storage groups to make this work? I think the easy part might be getting clustering/failover working with 2012.

re: Step-by-Step: Building a FREE Hyper-V Server 2012 Cluster - Part 1 of 2

KeithMayer — Mon, 06 May 2013 16:07:51 GMT

Hi Djawad,

I'd recommend using Hyper-V Server 2012 for the host OS on each node in the cluster. if you're going to be running Windows Server VMs, you'll want to make sure you have Windows Server 2012 Datacenter Edition licenses for each host to provide the unlimited server VM licenses that you'll need for licensing the Server OS in each VM regardless of which host happens to be running the VM in the cluster.

Hope this helps!

Keith

re: Step-by-Step: Building a FREE Hyper-V Server 2012 Cluster - Part 1 of 2

djawad — Mon, 06 May 2013 15:20:05 GMT

hi Keith,

i'm a student and i have a mission to integrate à new virtualization infrastructure hyper-v 2012.

i have 3 servers , two windows servers 2012 and an hyper-v server 2012, so i have a probleme to validation cluster configuration because this message (validate operating system installation option) .

i need your help to know if all nodes must be windows server 2012 or i can use windows server and hyper-v serve in the same cluster ?

thank's

djawad

re: Step-by-Step: Building a FREE Hyper-V Server 2012 Cluster - Part 1 of 2

KeithMayer — Fri, 03 May 2013 18:18:40 GMT

Hi Hassan,

I'd keep both hosts as member servers but then build a couple VMs that run as 2012 DC's on top of the hosts. The hosts will be able to join the domain being managed by the VM's so that you can build a cluster between them.

Hope this helps!

Keith

re: Step-by-Step: Building a FREE Hyper-V Server 2012 Cluster - Part 1 of 2

Hassan Latif — Thu, 02 May 2013 23:18:37 GMT

Hello Keith,

I've 2 servers both running Windows Server 2012 DC Edition and Hyper-V role. I do not want to create a domain but live migration is asking me to join a domain. How I can use live migration feature without creating / joining a domain ?

Or Can I make one host a DC and Hyper-V host and other machine as member server ?

Thanks

re: Step-by-Step: Building a FREE Hyper-V Server 2012 Cluster - Part 1 of 2

Joel Melashenko — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 01:48:16 GMT

Thanks Keith!!

re: Step-by-Step: Building a FREE Hyper-V Server 2012 Cluster - Part 1 of 2

KeithMayer — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 09:47:27 GMT

Hi Yahya,

Yes - for testing in a non-production lab environment you can use 1 physical NIC.

Hope this helps!

Keith

re: Step-by-Step: Building a FREE Hyper-V Server 2012 Cluster - Part 1 of 2

YahyaZahedi — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 06:21:33 GMT

Hi KeithMayer

thanks for great article .

But i have question ?

For environment test can use 1 NIC for testing or we should at least 3 NIC .

Best Regards

re: Step-by-Step: Building a FREE Hyper-V Server 2012 Cluster - Part 1 of 2

KeithMayer — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 14:56:56 GMT

Hi Brandon,

The configure you've outlined above works for a test lab environment, but it is not supported for production environments due to performance and availability issues - having separate physical file server clusters and Hyper-V clusters is the way to go in a production environment. See the following article for a diagram of this configuration: blogs.technet.com/.../build-a-private-cloud-foundation-networking.aspx

Hope this helps!

Keith