Creating a highly available Hyper-V virtual machine using SnapDrive
You can make a Hyper-V virtual machine highly available by creating the VM on a SnapDrive shared LUN in a Windows 2008 failover cluster.
Before you begin
Install the Windows Server 2008 failover cluster feature.
For more information, see Windows Server 2008 online Help.
Create a shared LUN, ensuring that you select the Microsoft Cluster Services Group named "Available Storage" to own that disk resource.
Note: The shared LUN must be created on the node that owns "Available Storage." To determine which node owns " Available Storage," type the cluster group command at a Windows command prompt.
Steps
Open Hyper-V Manager and use Virtual Network Manager to create and configure your virtual networks on all physical hosts.
From the Actions menu, click Virtual Network Manager to create or add a virtual network.
See your Hyper-V documentation for more information.
Note: All nodes in the same cluster must use the same name for the virtual network that provides external networking for the virtual machines. The virtual network adapters must be named the same on all Hyper-V hosts to enable quick migration.
From the Hyper-V Manager Action menu, click New > Virtual Machine.
In the Virtual Machine wizard, choose the option to store the virtual machine in a new folder and specify the location of your shared storage.
Navigate to Start > Administrative Tools > Failover Cluster Management to launch the Windows Server 2008 Failover Cluster Management snap-in.
Note: Make sure the virtual machine is not running before you make it highly available.
Using the High Availability Wizard, navigate to Failover Cluster > Services and Applications > Configure a Server or Application and select the virtual machine you created in Steps 1 through 3 to add it to a cluster group.
You have created a virtual machine cluster group.
Use SnapDrive to create additional shared disks as virtual machines to add to your virtual machine cluster group.
