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Making VM Highly Available
- (Using Microsoft Hyper-V 2008 R2)
I have a VM created locally on one of my nodes. This was done before i created a cluster hosting this and another node.
I would now like to move this VM to the cluster to benefit from HA.
How do i go about moving the VM form its default locally installed location to the a CSV location on my cluster?
kind regards
Roman
Odpovědi
- Hello,
To build on what Brian mentioned, you'll be essentially making a non-highly available VM by importing it, then making it highly available through Failover Cluster Manager. You're essentially "promoting" it to highly available. To do this:
* Open Failover Cluster Manager
* Right click on "Services and Applications"
* Select "Configure service or application"
* Select "Virtual Machine" => Next
* Select the VM you'd like to make highly available.
Some side notes:
* Make sure it doesn't have snapshots
* Make sure it doesn't use non-highly available storage, like an ISO you happened to mount.
Have a good day!
Nathan Lasnoski- Označen jako odpověďRoman_Romano 24. listopadu 2009 11:48
Všechny reakce
- The easiest and fool-proof way is to power off the VM - export it to the CSV volume and then Import it.
All through the Hyper-V management console.
Then to the Failover Cluster Management console and add this VM as a new Highly Available VM workload.
Brian Ehlert (hopefully you have found this useful) - Hello,
To build on what Brian mentioned, you'll be essentially making a non-highly available VM by importing it, then making it highly available through Failover Cluster Manager. You're essentially "promoting" it to highly available. To do this:
* Open Failover Cluster Manager
* Right click on "Services and Applications"
* Select "Configure service or application"
* Select "Virtual Machine" => Next
* Select the VM you'd like to make highly available.
Some side notes:
* Make sure it doesn't have snapshots
* Make sure it doesn't use non-highly available storage, like an ISO you happened to mount.
Have a good day!
Nathan Lasnoski- Označen jako odpověďRoman_Romano 24. listopadu 2009 11:48
Both,
Thanks for your replies.
I'd got as far as exporting the VM to the CSV location but the folder/file structure was different to that of a VM created natively through the cluster.
I'll continue to have a play about with it.
once again, many thanks both
Roman- Yes, It will be different - and it should fail-over without a single problem.
Exported VMs that are added to clusters tend to fail over without a single hitch as the entire VM is neatly placed in a single folder structure.
Brian Ehlert (hopefully you have found this useful)
