Thanks Erick! We use VMWare 5. Enterprise so I plan to use the VMWare converter software to do the work. I actually don't want to continue accessing the array, i would like to convert copy the data to a vmdk. The second node was actually an old exchange server that we will be leaving behind so I have no desire to keep the cluster in tact nor do I want to bother with creating a whole separate network in VMware for the cluster.
Both servers are the last in an old data center across town we are no longer using. I believe the proper path will be to failover the resources to a surviving node. Evict the second node from the cluster and then stop all cluster services on the surviving node and then do a vconvert.
Since the vconvert will bring all the partitions over you will have access to all the data. And evicting the second node from the cluster will allow you to avoid all the error messages that will appear on the logs saying the second node is not there.
However if you do not want to deal with the eviction part, just make sure you failover all resources from node2 to node1 so all the partitions,resources and control pipes are "seen" by only one node and can be properly handled by vconvert.
My question arises from the fact that if you vconvert a volume accesed via iSCSI of FC and then you try to mount the virtual image, the volumes being mounted will fail to mount because they are looking for a FC or iSCSI connection. Improve this answer. Follow this answer to receive notifications. Answered Mar 31 '10 at Back in , there were no tools out the on the market with Windows migration support over to Nutanix AHV.
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If you try to use any of the other two disk provisioning options you will get the bellow error message later on when configuring the rest of the Windows VMs, and the adding of the virtual disk will fail.
The last setting that we need to configure here is the Virtual Device Node one. From the drop-down-box choose the controller we added a few moments ago section 1. This is a must, because as you remember, this controller offers us the possibility to share the virtual disk s between multiple VMs.
Depending on the size of the virtual disk you set up, the operation can take quite some time. Feel free to create other virtual disks that you think you need in the Windows Failover Cluster using the above steps.
Here, for the second disk that I added to use for my quorum drive, the controller is still the same, but the ID has changed to since was already taken. From the datastore browser window that opens, select the disk s we created on the first VM then click OK. We need to configure the disk s to be identical with the one s from the first VM. This is because your storage is not configured or does not support SCSI 3 persistent reservation.
The only way to get rid of the warning is to re-configure your storage with the mentioned feature. Some storage devices require specific firmware versions or settings to function properly with failover clusters. Contact your storage administrator or storage vendor for help with configuring the storage to function properly with failover clusters that use Storage Spaces.
We are almost done. Here, push the Add button. From the Actions pane click the Edit button. The Edit Cluster Settings window opens. From the Advanced Options tab, click Add. Click OK to save the changes. We now have our CiB configured and ready. Off course, there is still the Windows Failover Cluster configuration part, but I will leave that up to you.
Just let me know how it goes in the comments area of the article. This second type of cluster is the most popular for business critical applications because it allows us to put the Windows nodes on different ESXi hosts and take advantage of vCenter HA and vMotion. The configuration is pretty much the same as CiB, the only difference are the disks. As mentioned in the begging of the article , starting with vSphere 7. Go ahead, prepare your LUNs on you storage array but do not add them as datastores in vCenter, just leave them there un-formatted and untouched.
Now right-click the first Windows VM and choose Settings. Click OK when you are done. As in the CiB section, we have some settings to configure on the disk before we can actually use it. On the Location drop-down box we can change the location of the virtual file. You can read more about it here. As before, set the Sharing option to No sharing and make sure the Compatibility Mode is set to Physical.
On the second VM, or the rest of them -if you are building a Windows Failover Cluster with more than two nodes- add an existing hard disk. Click OK when you are done then add the rest of the disks you might have. Off course, repeat this operation for the rest of the VMs.
In the CiB section, we created an affinity rule to keep the VMs together. From the Actions pane, hit the Add button.
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