I’m obviously so late with this post that others (Jan Egil Ring) have posted about this already. Considering he’s running a blog about Powershell, his script most likely looks a lot better than mine too…
Below is the script I used at TechEd in Berlin to create my 2-node cluster.… Read the rest
If you’re into clustering and high availability there are a lot of sessions at TechEd Berlin 2010, below is a list of the sessions scheduled.
I’ll be going and will be showing some demos together with Symon from the Cluster team at Microsoft.… Read the rest
Boy, that’s a long title. Here’s a video of the demo I did at TechEd Berlin. I’m creating a cluster on Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 with Live Migration, in about 15 minutes. A short rundown of the steps included:
Pre-reqs:
One DC
Shared storage
Two machines with Hyper-V Server 2008 R2
Steps:
Join all machines to domain
Install Failover Clustering role on Hyper-V Server-machines
Configure Hyper-V networks on both (same name)
Connect disks to both servers (iscsicpl)
With Failover Cluster Manager, create a cluster with both machines
Enable CSV
Create a machine
Done!… Read the rest
Tonight I received the email from Microsoft that informs me that I’ve been awarded the Microsoft Most Valued Professional for last years community effort. I’m really happy for being renewed, and this year it’s for Clustering / High Availability. Last year was in File Systems and Storage, but these are closely related as you may know.… Read the rest
Since I’ve been working almost 24/7 over the holidays while migrating one huge environment (15.000 users) into a new one in a hurry. That is, without any previous knowledge of the old environment and a very tight schedule, I’ve been using all the shortcuts I can come up with.… Read the rest
Having received a bunch of emails (what’s wrong with the comment-section?) about the failover-cluster construction, I’ve decided to explain it in a little bit more detail.
The basic network layout looks something like this
After that setup in Hyper-V I installed Starwind from Rocketdivision which lets my Windows Server 2008 act as an iSCSI-target for the other machines.… Read the rest