On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 2:12 PM, Mayo, Bill <[email protected]> wrote: > I haven't done it since Windows 2008 R2, but Microsoft clustering does work > in a vSphere environment if you have the shared storage (sounds like you do).
I had MS clustering working on SQL 2008 R2 running on 2 Win2008R2 VMs, using vSphere 5.5. It worked then. You do need shared storage, and you need to define the virtual disks properly (trying to remember - something about thick format, eager zeroing? The docs are on VMware's site). Mine was only a little test implementation thing, and my boss eventually deleted one of the nodes (he didn't realize it was part of a cluster; why people don't read the notes you can put on a VM in vSphere, I have no idea ..).
