My only thought is based on an experience a few years ago moving some clustered services to a single VM. The P2V went fine and I was left with a one node cluster as you intend.
The only problem I encountered was when doing snapshot-based image backups using VCB. The creation of a snapshot caused the cluster to lose its SCSI reservations on the virtual disks. At that point they would all drop offline and blow the whole thing up. I wasn't willing to give up live, snapshot-based backups, so I went through the process of recreating everything from scratch on a fresh VM. I don't know if you'll run into this issue, but it may be something look out for. On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 11:13 PM, Level 5 Lists <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a client who is downsizing and migrating from two physical MSCS > 2003 servers to one vm. Rebuilding the apps is not possible and the > conversion has already occurred but we removed both physical servers leaving > one working vm ‘active’ and one ‘passive’ non-working vm. I cannot make any > changes to the cluster without evicting this node apparently so I will end > up with 1 node in the cluster. In reading around it looks like you can > create one node clusters and seems viable I could evict this ‘missing’ > server without issue but thought I would run by the group for any caveats.. > **** > > ** ** > > This is primarily an SQL cluster with a couple of shares mounted on the > disk that the SQL box relies on …**** > > ** ** > > TY**** > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
