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Building Microsoft System Center Cloud – SCVMM 2012 R2 – Networking – Network configuration on Hyper-V hosts
Now we need to add network objects that we created (Logical Switches) to our hosts. You can automate the whole process by Physical Computer Profile or by PowerShell and for example modify all hosts in the same group. In my case I have a single cluster with two nodes so when I remove old Hyper-V […]
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Building Microsoft System Center Cloud – SCVMM 2012 R2 – Configuring Fabric – Hosts and Clusters
Fabric is composed from the servers, networks and storages. Hosts group At first we should add our hosts into the separate group. Group: Production Type any name you want. It can be for example name of your datacenter, name or number of the floor or name of the rack. Drag and drop managed hosts and clusters into […]
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Building guest (virtual) File Server Failover Cluster on Hyper-V host with Windows Server 2012 R2
Install guest (virtual) failover cluster Please continue to the Building guest (virtual) failover cluster series to learn how to create guest cluster from the virtual machines. Prerequisites Cluster: Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Two nodes Failover Clustering Storages Witness disk: One disk on a shared VHD or VHDX virtual disk Cluster disks: One or more disks […]
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Building guest (virtual) Failover Cluster on Hyper-V host with Windows Server 2012 R2 – Part 2 – Install and configure cluster
Prerequisites of Failover Clustering Domain join Join to the domain. PowerShell $domain = ‘ad.contoso.com’ $userName = ‘UserWithPermissionsToAddComputerIntoDomain’ $password = ‘Your-Password’ | ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText -Force $login = ‘{0}\{1}’ -f $domain, $userName $credential = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential($login, $password) Add-Computer -DomainName $domain -Credential $credential -Restart Configure storage Online all disks on all nodes. Initialize and format disks on one […]
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Building guest (virtual) Failover Cluster on Hyper-V host with Windows Server 2012 R2 – Part 1 – Create virtual machines
This article will guide you through how to build guest (virtual) cluster using Hyper-V on Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2. Functional Failover Clustering is the first step before installation of clustered File Server or AlwaysOn Failover Cluster Instance on Microsoft SQL Server etc. You can use this guide on a single Hyper-V host or on the Hyper-V […]