So are you basically running multiple VM's and clustering the VM's the same as you would multiple physical servers, just that they happen to be on one physical host? At my SMB's I typically run 2-3 VM's on a single physical box, but nothing is clustered in the typical sense.
%dayjob% runs clustered physical servers, but doing the same thing except with VM's on a single physical box doesn't seem to make sense. From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2012 12:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: You may be an IT geek if... All cluster resources are managed using the cluster manager (e.g. cluster disks, cluster networks, cluster applications, dependencies). It's not really the same as running a single server with a VM. Cheers Ken From: David Lum [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, 25 October 2012 5:23 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: You may be an IT geek if... Ah. That's how my SMB's look then :) SBS2011 and a SQL server VM on the same physical box.. What is managed by the FCM? From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2012 10:58 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: You may be an IT geek if... Yes, it looks exactly like that. It looks like a regular server. The "only" difference is that some things must be managed via Failover Cluster Manager instead of Hyper-V Manager. From: David Lum [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2012 1:21 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: You may be an IT geek if... You mean this? http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc780872(v=ws.10).aspx I'm not clear what this looks like in practice. It reads similar to looking at the Hyper-V console and having the VM's auto-start, but I know that's not what they mean since they mention the cluster service. Dave From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2012 8:26 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: You may be an IT geek if... It is how I tested Live Migration and migrating clusters from Server 2008 R2 to Server 2012 (note: you can absolutely have single-node clusters!). :) From: David Lum [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2012 10:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: You may be an IT geek if... The machine you do all your business from - accounting, etc. - is a VM running on a PowerEdge server in your house. It's also a convenient way to confirm you can do full DR with your stuff. Sure, it's not "cloud" but I don't want that for this purpose anyway... David Lum Sr. Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764 ~ 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
