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Merry Cluster Christmas !!!

Keith Combs' Blahg — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 05:42:12 GMT

Are you into big iron?  Well, if you are the heavy metal sort and get your jollies by building clustered

How to Build a Host Cluster with Hyper-V Beta 1

Tech Guru — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:31:30 GMT

How to Build a Host Cluster with Hyper-V Beta 1

Hyper-V Clustering

Virtual PC Guy's WebLog — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 04:55:32 GMT

If you haven't seen this one yet - Robert Larson has done an excellent post on how to configure Hyper-V

Hyper-V Clustering

Noticias externas — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 05:21:16 GMT

If you haven't seen this one yet - Robert Larson has done an excellent post on how to configure Hyper

Building a host cluster with Hyper-V beta

Windows Server Division WebLog — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 09:01:58 GMT

Hyper-V is a cluster-aware feature within Windows Server 2008, offering native support for VM high availability. And now that beta 1 is available, you can check it out yourself. So what are the 10 steps you have to go through to build a host cluster using

re: Building a Host Cluster with Hyper-V Beta 1

mschroed24 — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 01:24:53 GMT

Great article thanks. When will the guest cluster document be available?

re: Building a Host Cluster with Hyper-V Beta 1

gopherhockey — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:00:17 GMT

Love the hyper-v articles, especially with so little documentation out there. I'm about to test CCR with Exchange 2007 on hyper-v.

Disk Path not available

larwin — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:46:02 GMT

Hi, thank you for this great and helpful introduction. Without this article, i was not able to imagine how-to start a clustering of VMs.

But i always got an error while tryin´to make a vm HA.

" The disk path 'C:\programdata\microsoft....\hyper-v' is not available, not accessible or cannot be managed by the cluster.

Any ideas from where this message spring from?

Host Cluster med Hyper-V

Maria Lundahl — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:38:40 GMT

Läs Robert Larsons blogginlägg om hur man skapar ett kluster med Hyper-V, screenshots ingår. http://blogs.technet.com/roblarson/archive/2007/12/17/building-a-host-cluster-with-hyper-v-beta-1.asp

Windows Server 2008 Live Meeting: More Resources

Jeff Alexander's Weblog — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 23:35:26 GMT

A couple of weeks ago I did a Live Meeting broadcast for some folks over at IBM and have been finding

Best of Questions and Answers from the TechNet Webcast: 24 Hours of Windows Server 2008 (Part 02 of 24): Server Virtualization with Hyper-V Features and Architecture

Full of I.T. — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 17:56:20 GMT

Greetings! Below are the best of the questions and answers that occurred during our TechNet Webcast entitled,

re: Building a Host Cluster with Hyper-V Beta 1

jtall66 — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:07:59 GMT

Can you direct me to some overview level information about clustering? There's a lot of specific information and some conflicting terminology in this area. A search for clustering provides information about high performance computing (HPC), web server clustering, terminal server clustering, a/a - a/p failover clustering but little about how each of those compare and where they're appropriate.

Thanks for the specific instructions, I'll be using them once I've firmed up my knowlege a bit.

re: Building a Host Cluster with Hyper-V Beta 1

josebda — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:31:53 GMT

Be sure to also check this other post with a similar solution, using a Windows Server 2008 Core install for the two Hyper-V and including details on the configuration of the iSCSI Target: http://blogs.technet.com/josebda/archive/2008/04/14/snw-demo-windows-server-2008-core-hyper-v-and-failover-clustering-with-screenshots.aspx

Make your apps highly available with Hyper-V and Server 2008 failover Cluster

Brian's Blog — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 01:37:00 GMT

Many applications are now required to run 24X7 with little or no downtime. They are also expected to

re: Building a Host Cluster with Hyper-V Beta 1

RobLarso — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 04:38:05 GMT

Larwin,

Sorry I have been very busy and not paying enough attention to my blog. You issue is that you must place a VM that you want to make highly available on the shared disk resource of the cluster.

re: Building a Host Cluster with Hyper-V Beta 1

nusakan — Wed, 07 May 2008 01:57:19 GMT

In response to larwin. you probably did one of the following:

A) you only have one drive added instead of the reqired two and have a virtual machine installed on it.

B) you do have two drives but you installed a virtual machine on the drive that has the cluster folder on it.

I hit this bump too and couldn't figure out why since clustering was something i'm a noob in. But i'm still learning. Let's see if I can explain...

The reason why Rob said one drive with 500mb and another drive that's bigger is because the cluster service writes information to that 500mb drives and becomes reserved and inaccessable to everything else. So your Virtual machine must go to the other drive(s). You can dink around with permissions all day and it'll get you no where. This virtual machine must reside on a different drive than the cluster drive. So what does this mean?

For every virtual machine you plan on making high availabile, you need that many more extra shared drives + the cluster drive. The reason is because these drives will go offline and online as they migrate around the cluster so if host A has a virtual machine on a drive, host B won't see this drive until host A migrates the virtual machine to host B. Then at the point host A will see this drive as offline and host B sees it as online. On the same note, try not to use these drives as like means of temporary storage because you'll probably wonder why it "disappered".

With iSCSI, making drives is pretty easy, the JBOD I use is called the EMC AX150i SP fully populated with 16x 250gb drives. You can RAID 5 the whole thing (with hot spare) then make a drive and assign only 1gb to it for the cluster drive and then a boat load of smaller drives for multiple high availability virtual machines. You can also use Fibre drives too.

Virtualization Resources: Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008

Adam Fazio — Wed, 21 May 2008 01:37:33 GMT

My current project involves being the only dedicated technical resource on the Virtualization RDP Team.

Hyper-V Exam 70-652 beta

The Virtual World of Peter Fitzsimon — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:30:52 GMT

Ok, so earlier this week I sat the Hyper-V beta exam. Beta exams are a full suite of questions, in this

Off-topic things and some Hyper-V goodies (resources, backup and AzMan scope scripts)

Andrzej's "IT Thoughts" Weblog — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:30:40 GMT

Lately it's been very quiet on my blog. There are a couple of things to that. First and foremost there

Hyper-V: Eight useful links and tidbits for 08-08-08

John Howard - Hyper-V and virtualization blog — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 21:59:00 GMT

I've had a few links I've been meaning to post up for some time now, so here's a small collection of

Virtualization Resources: Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008

Adam Fazio — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:29:12 GMT

(updated 8/26/08) My current project involves being the only dedicated technical resource on the Virtualization