Really, for SCVMM 2012? I can already create a VM inside of our failover cluster and run SCVMM 2008 R2 to move between nodes. We had it that way for quite a while under our original Hyper-V cluster, before switching later to a physical box (mostly so others here can easily find "the console" of the virtual servers). This is what we're reading from:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/scvmm/archive/2011/06/28/high-availability-enhancements-in-vmm-2012.aspx From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 7:29 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Clustering/SCVMM They are talking about the Hyper-V physical host as being part of a cluster. SCVMM is not cluster aware (aside from the database component) - you can't run it as a cluster resource (i.e. on a cluster). At best, you can create a VM with SCVMM in it, and make the VM a cluster resource. In the event that there is a physical node failure, you can failover the VM to another physical node. The backend SCVMM database (being SQL Server) can be run on a cluster. Cheers Ken From: Jeff Brown [mailto:[email protected]]<mailto:[mailto:[email protected]]> Sent: Tuesday, 13 March 2012 12:30 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Clustering/SCVMM I have been going around and around in circles with SCVMM blogs and MS White papers and can't find anything that actually ANSWERS my question. I have a test environment with 3 HyperV hosts, all W2K8 R2 connected to an EMC fiber channel SAN. It all works. Production servers here are all ESX. I ran SCVMM2012 RC for a time on a VM in the ESX side. There were a lot of things I could not do because it did not have access to the same SAN space as my HyperV environment. I have removed VMM and taken down the ESX VM and am trying to decide how best to install VMM in my HyperV environment. I have ASSUMED that installing it on a host is a NO NO, because of licensing issues. I am struggling to understand how it(VMM2012) will work installed on a HyperV VM. I am looking at a doc written by J.C. Hornbuckle: HIGH-AVAILABILITY ENHANCEMENTS IN VMM 2010. There is a phrase that says: "simply begin the configuration on an existing cluster node"... This is my question: Is a HyperV VM a cluster node? Or does the term "cluster node" refer only to my HV Host machines? Jeff Brown IT Operations Webco Industries (918) 246-2456 This email and any attachments transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the addressee. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender immediately. All inquiries, quotations, purchase orders, acknowledgments, invoices or other documents memorializing offers, acceptances or contractual obligations are subject to Webco's standard terms and conditions of sale (when Webco is the seller, www.webcoindustries.com/tcsales.aspx<http://www.webcoindustries.com/tcsales.aspx>) or purchase (when Webco is the buyer, www.webcoindustries.com/tcpurchase.aspx<http://www.webcoindustries.com/tcpurchase.aspx>). Webco manufactures tubular products to meet customer dimensional and materials specifications. Webco is not an engineering or design business. Any engineering information provided is purely incidental to the tube manufacturing process and not offered or intended to be engineering services related to the performance specifications a customer may require, which is the customer's responsibility to determine. ~ 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]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[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
