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  • Tuesday, September 08, 2009 11:00 PMkevinmhsieh Users MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     
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    Hello, I am trying to figure out how to acheive clustering for my VMs under Hyper-V Server 2008 R2/Datacenter 2008 R2.  The problem that I am running into is how to stick 45+ VMs on my cluster while keeping the ability to individually move each VM around in my cluster and individually replicate each VM to my DR site.  I currently keep each VM on its own LUN so that I can replicate that LUN to my DR site and selectively bring the VM up in my DR site or my Production site.  If I had fewer VMs, I could just use drive letters dor my LUNs.  From my reading of the literature, I can use a cluster disk resource as the root for my mount points, but then I would have to fail over every VM mounted underneath that root disk.  That's not nearly as granular as I would like.  I don't want to use Cluster Shared Volumes to store my VMs, because then I lose granularity in replicating the volume to my DR site.  Cluster Shared Volume would be ideal as the root disk for the mount points, but CSV only supports Virtual machines, not mount points.  Any suggestions out there?

    If anyone is curious, I am using Dell EqualLogic as my iSCSI storage target and that is what I am using for my replication.
     

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