OK \u2026 it is a single node cluster \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 But it is running!\u00a0 Live Migration is great and all but to be honest, the 2 things I want out of Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V are Core Parking (to reduce our power bill) and Cluster Shared Volume.\u00a0 I really, really hated having to do per-LUN deployment of VM\u2019s on the cluster.\u00a0 They stressed me out when it came to alterations or deletions.\u00a0 Luckily, I\u2019d settled on a consistent naming standard for every component in the W2008 cluster.\u00a0 But still, one oversight and bang \u2013 a production VM goes off the air.\u00a0 With CSV, you deploy your storage once and add to it as required later.\u00a0 Love that!<\/p>\n
Setting up CSV was easy.\u00a0 I set up a LUN in the SAN management console.\u00a0 I linked this to the cluster node(s).\u00a0 I initialised it and brought it online with the GPT disk partition system<\/a>.\u00a0 This is optimised for LUN\u2019s over 2TB in size.\u00a0 Our CSV will keep on growing so 2TB will be nothing.\u00a0 I did a quick format and labelled the disk as CSV1.\u00a0 I did not add a letter to the drive because there was no point.<\/p>\n Next I added the storage to the cluster.\u00a0 I renamed it as CSV1.\u00a0 I enabled CSV in the cluster (select the cluster, centre pane, it\u2019s a hyperlink in there).\u00a0 The MMC refreshed and now I had a Cluster Shared Volume item in the navigation pane on the left.\u00a0 I selected this and added storage: I selected the disk I\u2019d just added to the cluster.\u00a0 Badda bing, a CSV was created!\u00a0 <\/p>\n The disk is now mounted as C:ClusterStorageVolume1.\u00a0 Additional CSV\u2019s would be Volume2, Volume3, etc.<\/p>\n Now, I can add VM\u2019s into the CSV.\u00a0 Note that any VM that was on the disk before being converted to CSV will be \u201ccorrupted", i.e. their storage location will have changed so Hyper-V no longer knows where they are.\u00a0 Make sure there are no VM\u2019s created on the disk before you convert it to a CSV.<\/p>\n I\u2019ve also added 2 patches for W2008 R2 that I\u2019ve blogged about recently.\u00a0 1 is related to Nehelem processors and the other is related to power management, i.e. Core Parking.<\/p>\n That\u2019s it!\u00a0 Next I need to build node 2 and add it to the cluster.\u00a0 Then I get to try out Live Migration!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" OK \u2026 it is a single node cluster \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 But it is running!\u00a0 Live Migration is great and all but to be honest, the 2 things I want out of Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V are Core Parking (to reduce our power bill) and Cluster Shared Volume.\u00a0 I really, really hated having to do per-LUN … Continue reading “First W2008 R2 Hyper-V Cluster Operational”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hyper-v"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}