Add hosts to the fabric

Now we can add our hosts (our cluster).

• Add Resources – Hyper-V Hosts and Clusters
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  • Use pre-created Run As Account. You should never add hosts using own user credentials or using VMM service account.
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  • Now you can search all machines in AD.
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  • Pick the whole cluster or standalone Hyper-V host.
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  • Default host group is just fine for our small environment.
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  • Wait for the jobs and you are done.
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    • It is possible that you will need a restart because of your Multipath I/O (MPIO) but that can wait till next maintenance window. In my case I will do it right now.
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Test added cluster

Just for fun I will measure how long it takes to do a restart of my node that currently holds all VMs.

• PowerShell

$a = Get-Date; Restart-Computer -ComputerName conthostclu0n0 -Wait -Delay 1; $b = Get-Date; $b - $a

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• And after manual live migration.
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Validate added cluster

Now it is a good time to run validation on the clusters that was added to the VMM.

• Validate Cluster
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• Check the results.
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