Windows Server 2008 R2 one of the highly available clusters of virtualization prepare for the environment

Yesterday completes the 2008R2 virtualization high usable cluster, the Microsoft finally has the ability and the VMware ha compares the product, the heart is excited, although 2008r2 will be able to download from the MSDN from the August 14, but the CC cannot resist the excitement, or has downloaded the leaked version from the vision, and use the 180-day trial version of the use of key activation, in order to be easy to understand, especially the use of the vision of the release of the Chinese package, to facilitate the students do not understand English. 2008R2 Virtualization High Availability clusters have more real-time migrations and faster migrations than 2008 of clusters!

First, we need to prepare an experimental environment or a production environment.

Divided into 1. Software Environment and 2 hardware environment

I. Hardware environment:

1. Storage is required, you can use hardware storage or software storage (such as Windows Storage server 2008,openfiler, etc.) as for the introduction of using WSS to create the storage and to connect to the storage on the client before my blog, I will no longer show you another

2. High-Availability Virtualization host: At least two hosts that support virtualization, at least 2GB of memory.

3. The network environment for Gigabit is good,

4. The hardware of the virtualization host is the best of all! There is no way to do it, the experiment is a support for virtualization and desktops to complete, but note that if the host hardware is not the same, such as the C1 and C2 of the figure, then in the creation of virtual machines need to choose the Processor compatibility option!

Two. Software Environment

1. All two machines are installed with Windows Server 2008 R2, the system is best mounted in C disk, so that the stored mapped disks are all C-disk format

2. Join the network domain

3. Install role Hyper-V

4. Installation function: Failover cluster

The virtual network in 5.hyper is named Hyper

6. Create two iSCSI disks on storage server, one for data files for virtual machines, one for the quorum disk, virtual machine data files that are snapshots and status and configuration, and disk files, allocated on demand, but note that general Windows Server 2008 need C disk around 30GB to normal work, 2003 is about 20GB, the quorum disk is 1GB or so

7. Connect two iSCSI disks to C1 and C2 on the virtualization host C1 and C2 and name the disk as Q disk, and the quorum disk named R disk, note that two machines are set!

Source: http://ccfxny.blog.51cto.com/350339/190365