Windows 2000 in VMWare Server 1.06

I rebuilt my machine with Windows 2000 and installed VMWare Server 1.06. After that, I would like to create a VM with Windows 2000 for browsing and software testing. After completing installation and reboot, bluescreen comes up with inaccessbile boot device error. I figure out I have setup the HDD with LSI controller. To fix the issue, go to lsilogic website and download the Windows 2000 driver for LSI 20320-R driver. Press F6 when booting from bootable CD / Windows 2000 bootdisk 1. Insert the driver FDD when you are asked. The same applies to XP and Windows 2003.

Microsoft cluster with VMWare Server 1.06

Recently, I have changed job, and a lot of the works are related to Microsoft cluster. Setup is not difficult at all. The most important is to edit the vmx files (VM offline) for the two nodes. Add these lines

scsi1.sharedBus = virtual
disk.locking = "false"
diskLib.dataCacheMaxSize = “0”

On the second node, make sure you select using existing virtual disk and choose the right vmdk file (quorum disk created with node 1). Put the quorom disk on bus 1. If you put the quorum disk in other bus, change the scsi[x].sharedBus = virtual.

It makes our life a lot easy with testing and trying software in cluster environment.