Saturday, June 21, 2008

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.

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