Friday, 20 April 2012

Windows 8 Server Beta Hyper-V Failover Cluster Is Live

This was one of the easiest set up processes to run to date with the new Windows 8 Server OS.

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Using all native NIC teaming, Microsoft’s built in MPIO for the SAS based DAS storage (Promise VTrak), and some configuration tweaks on the two nodes we had a 100% showing in the Cluster Validation Wizard.

With the validation having run successfully we were able to stand the cluster up with no issues at all.

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Awesome job Server and Hyper-V Teams!

Philip Elder
MPECS Inc.
Microsoft Small Business Specialists
Co-Author: SBS 2008 Blueprint Book

*Our original iMac was stolen (previous blog post). We now have a new MacBook Pro courtesy of Vlad Mazek, owner of OWN.

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2 comments:

  1. Joseph Worrall21 April, 2012 00:36

    Philip --

    Was this an Intel Modular Server or other model? We are waiting to see what your results are with the modular server and Windows 2012 Server - thanks!

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  2. Philip Elder Cluster MVP21 April, 2012 12:24

    Joseph,

    This was done on our 2 node SR1695GPRX2AC 1U 1P based setup connected to a Promise VTrak E610sD for centralized storage.

    We will be running tests on our IMS when we have a bit more time.

    Thanks,

    Philip

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