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      Tuesday, October 13, 2009 8:50 PM
       
       
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      Does anyone know what the recommended order for "Adapters and Bindings" would be for the following configuration:

      1.  1 Management Adapter
      2.  2 Cluster Private - LM Adapters (TEAMED)
      3.  2 VM Adapters - (TEAMED)
      4.  2 iSCSI Adapters
      5.  1 Cluster Private - CSV Adapter

      Any help would be highly appreciative...thank you!
      Jonathan
         

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      • Wednesday, October 14, 2009 4:03 AM
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        The binding order is for external client communication, so you want your iSCSI adapters for storage at the bottom... NIC's that connect to the outside (or clients) world at the top, with cluster in the middle.


        For configuring CSV traffic, every cluster network has a "Metric" value in Win2008 R2.  CSV traffic goes over the network with the lowest metric that is up.  The cluster network metric values can be seen via PowerShell (networks with a roll of 0 are ignored), with the following cmdlet:

             Get-ClusterNetwork | Format-Table Name,Role,Metric

        You can define the network for Live Migration to use as well... if you go into CluAdmin.msc and go to the properties of one of the VM resources you will see a tab to configure the network that Live Migration uses (it's a global setting).

        Thanks!
        Elden

           

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        • Wednesday, October 14, 2009 4:03 AM
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          The binding order is for external client communication, so you want your iSCSI adapters for storage at the bottom... NIC's that connect to the outside (or clients) world at the top, with cluster in the middle.


          For configuring CSV traffic, every cluster network has a "Metric" value in Win2008 R2.  CSV traffic goes over the network with the lowest metric that is up.  The cluster network metric values can be seen via PowerShell (networks with a roll of 0 are ignored), with the following cmdlet:

               Get-ClusterNetwork | Format-Table Name,Role,Metric

          You can define the network for Live Migration to use as well... if you go into CluAdmin.msc and go to the properties of one of the VM resources you will see a tab to configure the network that Live Migration uses (it's a global setting).

          Thanks!
          Elden

             
          • Wednesday, October 14, 2009 11:58 AM
             
             
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            Elden - Excellent...thank you for your response...I appreciate it!!
            Jonathan