No more hiding in the server room
Today I built a Hyper-V Cluster
So earlier this week I read a Microsoft White Paper about their virtualised deployment, it gave me the push I needed to investigate what was actually required for a Hyper-V aware Microsoft Cluster. Something that my college and I have wanted to implement for a while.
At the present time the cluster contains three machines which are all Hyper-V enabled, on top of this I've enabled Cluster Storage Volumes to allow shared SAN space between the three machines.
Now that its up and running it strikes me there are few questions to ask.
1. Has anyone else done this before? Do you have any comments or gotchas we should look out for?
2. Is anyone actually interested in how its working? If so I might put a blog post together about it (As part of my Virtualisation series).
3. Has anyone got any ideas for how I can test the cluster fully? At the moment we're thinking of suggesting this to our director as a method of ensuring that we maintain the uptime we're supposed to be striving for. In order to do that we need to have tested the nuts of the solution so ideas would be appreciated.
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Permalink Reply by John McGrath on -
Yes to number 2. I would be interested in how you implemented it, and how it is working for you.
Obviously, I have not done this before, and therefore would not have any testing ideas at this time.
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Permalink Reply by Graycat on -
Wow, good luck with that one! That sounds like a great project to find out how things work. :o)
Nothing against Hyper-V but I still feel it's a little chipmunk compared to the 300lb gorilla of virtualisation that is VMware. Of course there's a hug difference in price to consider but I'm definitely in the VMware camp of things...... probably as I've been in work all weekend expanding the array on our box and doing a p2v conversion of an e-mail server! :o) lol
Seriously though I'd be interested in hearing how you get on and some details on what you've done. I've got a similar-ish project coming up but based on VMware in the next 6 months so I might throw something together from that point of view. compare and contrast one might say.
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Permalink Reply by Dan Taylor on -
That sounds like a plan,I agree totally that Hyper-V is a smaller Virtualisation platform than VMWare and in some ways that's probably why I like it so much - we're trying to KISS this one after years of unnecessary complexity.
I'll certainly look at writing something up for this project.
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