Hyper-V and Failover Clusters

re: Hyper-V and Failover Clusters

David — Mon, 26 May 2008 13:48:22 GMT

Hi Dave

Nice demo's, you make them look too easy.

Anyway quick question on the static MAC address you set up. Did you have one already allocated somewhere (magic Microsoft MAC address handbook), or does Hyper-V have a pool it can call on for these purposes. Similar to how VMware has a range it uses for all virtual machines.

While I can see setting a static MAC address as a good thing for failover/quick migration, keeping track of, and setting the static MACs up could be a mgmt nightmare if implemented incorrectly.

Cheers

David

re: Hyper-V and Failover Clusters

daven — Mon, 26 May 2008 21:22:50 GMT

Hyper-V has a pool to allocate as dynamic addresses - I just used the address it allocated when I first started that VM. I agree, it would be a nightmare - I haven't found anything to say that it's a best practice (it was just something that in my own head makes sense - and does seem to make failover a little more seamless). I guess we'll just have to wait & see what happens when we RTM..

Dave.

re: Hyper-V and Failover Clusters

josebda — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 05:48:37 GMT

Check this post to see 5 different options for Failover Clustering with Hyper-V:

http://blogs.technet.com/josebda/archive/2008/06/17/windows-server-2008-hyper-v-failover-clustering-options.aspx

You can also check this demo of how to setup a cluster with two Hyper-V nodes running a core install of Windows Server 2008:

http://blogs.technet.com/josebda/archive/2008/04/14/snw-demo-windows-server-2008-core-hyper-v-and-failover-clustering-with-screenshots.aspx

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