Hyper-V: Clustering Survival Guide

In Hyper-V you can perform clustering at the host (virtualization server) level or the guest (virtual machine level).

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Useful Sources

• Blog: Cluster Team: http://blogs.msdn.com/clustering/
• Cluster Team Site: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/clustering-multisite.aspx
• Training: Course 6423a: Implementing and Managing WS08 Clustering
• Website: Cluster Information Portal
• Website: Clustering Forum (2008)
• Website: Clustering Forum (2008 R2)
• Website: Clustering Newsgroup
• Website: Cluster Technical Resources
• Blog: Ask Core: Clustering

Windows Server 2008 R2

• R2 Evaluation: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/try-it.aspx
• TechNet: Hyper-V Live Migration Network Configuration Guide
• Blog: Windows Server 2008 Failover Clusters: Networking (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3)
• Blog: Adding Features via PowerShell
• Blog: Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV): Disk Ownership
• Blog: Deploying Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV)
• Blog: How to manually defrag or ChkDisk a CSV disk
• Blog: Hyper-V Export and Import (2008 R2)
• Blog: Configuring Pass-through Disks in Hyper-V
• Blog: Live Migration Traffic
• Blog: Network Load Balancing (NLB) and Virtual Machines
• Blog: PowerShell for Failover Clustering in Windows Server 2008 R2
• Blog: PowerShell for Network Load Balancing (NLB) in Windows Server 2008 R2
• Blog: SCVMM Quick Storage Migration
• KB Article: Hyper-V R2 Upgrades
• KB Article: Increased functionality and virtual machine control in the Windows Server 2008 Failover Cluster Management console for the Hyper-V role
• TechNet: Exchange 2010 Move Local Legacy Mailbox
• TechNet: Migration to Windows Server 2008 R2 Failover Clusters
• TechNet: Using Live Migration in Windows Server 2008 R2
• TechNet: Introducing Windows Server 2008 Failover Clustering
• TechNet: What’s new in R2 Clustering
• Webcast: Building a Hyper-V R2 Cluster
• Video: Configure a Cluster Shared Volume to support Live Migration
• Webcast: Clustering in a Virtual World
• Webcast: Deploying Clusters for Live Migration
• Webcast: Failover and Live Migration
• Webcast: Failover Clustering Feature Roadmap in WS08 R2
• Webcast: Getting started with Hyper-V in R2 videos
• Webcast: Getting Started with Live Migration
• Webcast: High Availability Basics with Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V (Level 200)
• Webcast: High-Availability in Exchange 2010 – Part 1
• Webcast: High-Availability in Exchange 2010 – Part 2
• Webcast: High-Availability in Exchange 2010 – Part 3
• Webcast: High-Availability in Exchange 2010 – Part 4
• Webcast: Hyper-V Quick Migration on a Failover Cluster
• Website: Hyper-V Server (2008 R2)
• Webcast: Innovating High Availability with Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV)
• Webcast: Introducing Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV)
• Webcast: Making Highly-Available VMs (2008 R2)
• Webcast: Server Virtualization Webcast Videos
• Webcast: Top 10 VMWare Myths, including CSV and live migration
• Webcast: Top 10 VMWare Myths, including CSV and live migration
• Webcast: Server Virtualization Webcast Videos
• Webcast: Windows Server 2008 R2 Live Migration
• Website: Clustering Forum (2008 R2)
• Whitepaper: Hyper-V Live Migration Overview & Architecture
• Blog: Low Cost Cluster Storage for Windows Server 2008

Core

For PowerShell, Cluster.exe & Scripting see that section.

• TechNet: Server Core

• TechNet: Installation

• Utility: Remote Server Administration Tools (simplifies Server Core configurations)

• Webcast: How Microsoft does IT: Enhancing High Availability with Server Core in Windows Server 2008

Deployment, Migration & Upgrades

For deployment guides for a specific resource (Exchange, File Server, Hyper-V, Print, SQL, Other) or for deployment using PowerShell, Cluster.exe or scripting, please visit that section.

• Blog: Configuring Auditing

• Blog: Migration Options for Hardware

• Blog: Rolling Upgrade to Windows Server 2008 SP2 Failover Clustering

• KB Article: Cluster Nodes as Domain Controllers (DCs)

• KB Article: Failover behavior on large clusters (preferred owner, possible owner)

• TechNet: Add a Server to a Failover Cluster

• TechNet: Cluster Requirements

• TechNet: Clustering with multiple active resources

• TechNet: Configuring Accounts in Active Directory

• TechNet: Creating a Failover Cluster

• TechNet: Failover Clustering Deployment

• TechNet: Installing a Failover Cluster

• TechNet: Migrating Cluster Settings

• TechNet: Migration to Windows Server 2008 R2 Failover Clusters

• TechNet: Recommended Clustering Hotfixes (2003)

• TechNet: Recommended Clustering Hotfixes (2003 SP2)

• TechNet: Recommended Clustering Hotfixes (2008)

• TechNet: Validating a cluster

• Blog: Validation Warning: Teredo

• Blog: Validation Warning: Patch GUID

• TechNet: Validating Hardware for a Failover Cluster

• Utility: Cluster Configuration Validation Wizard (ClusPrep) (2003)

• Webcast: Configuring Failover Clustering

• Webcast: TechNet Webcast: Failover Cluster Validation and Troubleshooting with Windows Server 2008

Exchange Server

• KB Article: Exchange 2003: Move Mailbox 

  ·         Lab: TechNet Virtual Lab: Exchange Server 2007 Standby Continuous Replication

  ·         Lab: TechNet Virtual Lab: Using Cluster Continuous Replication (CCR) in Exchange 2007

  ·         TechNet: Deploying Exchange 2003 in a Cluster

  ·         TechNet: Deploying Forefront Security with Exchange Clusters

  ·         TechNet: Exchange 2007 Cmdlets

  ·         TechNet: Exchange 2007 Move Mailbox Scenarios

  ·         TechNet: Exchange 2007 Overview

  ·         TechNet: Exchange 2010 Move Local Legacy Mailbox

  ·         TechNet: How to create an Exchange SCC Failover Cluster with CMD

  ·         TechNet: Installing Cluster Continuous Replication (CCR) on 2008

  ·         TechNet: Planning for Cluster Continuous Replication (CCR)

  ·         Webcast: Exchange 2007 High Availability Deep Dive

  ·         Webcast: Exchange Webcast Videos

  ·         Webcast: High-Availability in Exchange 2010 – Part 1

  ·         Webcast: High-Availability in Exchange 2010 – Part 2

  ·         Webcast: High-Availability in Exchange 2010 – Part 3

  ·         Webcast: High-Availability in Exchange 2010 – Part 4

  ·         Webcast: How Microsoft IT Implemented New Storage Designs for Exchange Server 2007

  ·         Webcast: Installing Exchange 2007 SP1 CCR on Windows Server 2008

  ·         Webcast: Installing Exchange on WS08 Failover Clustering using UI Wizard

  ·         Webcast: Upgrading Exchange CCR Clusters from 2007 to 2007 SP1

  File Server, DFS-R, DFS-N & NFS

  ·         Blog: Deploying DFS-R on a 2008 R2 Failover Cluster – Part 1 of 3

  ·         Blog: Deploying DFS-R on a 2008 R2 Failover Cluster – Part 2 of 3

  ·         Blog: Deploying DFS-R on a 2008 R2 Failover Cluster – Part 3 of 3

  ·         Blog: File Share ‘Scoping’ in Windows Server 2008 Failover Clusters

  ·         Blog: Share Subdirectories in Windows Server 2008

  ·         TechNet: Configuring a Two-Node File Server Failover Cluster

  ·         TechNet: Create a Shared Folder in a Clustered File Server

  ·         TechNet: Creating a Clustered File Server checklist

  ·         Utility: File Server Migration Toolkit (FSMT) (2008)

  ·         Webcast: How Microsoft IT Deploys Windows 2008 Clusters for File Services

  ·         Webcast: New File Server Features of Windows Server 2008 (Level 200)

  ·         Webcast: Prepare Yourself for Windows Server 2008 (Part 5 of 8): New File Server Features

  ·         Website: File Server Migration Toolkit (2008)

  ·         Whitepaper: File Server Migration Toolkit (2008)

  Hyper-V

  ·         Blog: Adding a Pass-Through Disk to a HA VM

  ·         Blog: Deploying a HA Virtual Machine (2008)

  ·         Blog: HA Virtual Machine Deployment Considerations (2008)

  ·         Blog: Hyper-V Export and Import (2008 R2)

  ·         Blog: Monitor Network Traffic for a VM on a Cluster

  ·         Blog: Network Load Balancing (NLB) and Virtual Machines

  ·         Blog: SCVMM: Intelligent Placement

  ·         Blog: SCVMM: Quick Storage Migration

  ·         Blog: VM Scale with Clustering: Physical Memory Reservations

  ·         KB Article: Hyper-V R2 Upgrades

  ·         TechNet: Design for a Failover Cluster in Which All Nodes Run Hyper-V

  ·         TechNet: Failover Cluster in which the Servers run Hyper-V

  ·         TechNet: Getting Started with Hyper-V

  ·         TechNet: High-Availability for a Server Running Hyper-V

  ·         TechNet: Requirements and Recommendations for Failover Clusters in Which All Nodes Run Hyper-V

  ·         TechNet Case Study: Best Practices for Deploying VMs using Hyper-V

  ·         TechNet Case Study: How Microsoft IT Designs the Virtualization Host & Network Infrastructure

  ·         Training: Configuring Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008

  ·         Training: eBook: Understanding Microsoft Virtualization Solutions

  ·         Webcast: 24 Hours of Windows Server 2008 (Part 24 of 24): High Availability with Hyper-V

  ·         Webcast: Building a Hyper-V R2 Cluster

  ·         Webcast: Creating Business Continuity Solutions Using Windows Virtualization

  ·         Webcast: Deploying Clusters for Live Migration

  ·         Webcast: Failover and Live Migration

  ·         Webcast: Failover and Quick Migration of VMs

  ·         Webcast: Getting Started with Live Migration 

  ·         Webcast: Getting started with Hyper-V in R2 videos

  ·         Webcast: High Availability Basics with Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V (Level 200)

  ·         Webcast: High Availability with Hyper-V

  ·         Webcast: Hyper-V Quick Migration on a Failover Cluster

  ·         Webcast: Introducing Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV)

  ·         Webcast: Making Highly-Available VMs (2008 R2)

  ·         Webcast: Server Virtualization Webcast Videos

  ·         Webcast: Top 10 VMWare Myths, including CSV and live migration

  ·         Website: Hyper-V Server (2008)

  ·         Website: Hyper-V Server (2008 R2)

  ·         Whitepaper: Testing Hyper-V and Failover Clustering

  ·         Whitepaper: Quick Migration with Hyper-V

  Miscellaneous

  ·         Blog: Add a New Disk to a Cluster (2008)

  ·         Blog: Cluster Recovery (2003)

  ·         Blog: Cluster Virtual Adapter (NetFT)

  ·         Blog: Configuring Auditing for a Cluster (2008)

  ·         Blog: DNS Registration with the Network Name Resource

  ·         Blog: PlumbAllCrossSubnetRoutes

  ·         Blog: Resource Group Management Enhancements in 2008 R2 Failover Clustering – Part 1

  ·         Blog: Resource Group Management Enhancements in 2008 R2 Failover Clustering – Part 2

  ·         Blog: RHS and what does it does

  ·         Blog: Stop 0x9E Error

  ·         KB Article: Microsoft Support Policy for Windows Server 2008 Failover Clusters

  ·         TechNet: Configuring the Quorum in a Failover Cluster

  ·         TechNet: Failover Cluster Management Snap-In

  ·         TechNet: Managing a Failover Cluster

  ·         TechNet: Modifying Settings for a Failover Cluster

  ·         TechNet: Support Policy

  ·         TechNet: Understanding Backup and Recovery Basics for a Failover Cluster

  ·         TechNet: Windows Server 2008 Itanium / IA64 support

  ·         Webcast: Achieving High Availability with Windows Server “Longhorn” Clustering (Level 200)

  • Webcast: Build High-Availability Infrastructures with Windows Server 2008 Failover Clustering
  • Webcast: Delivering High Availability to Your Infrastructure

  ·         Webcast: Failover Clustering 101

  • Webcast: Failover Clustering and Quorum in Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Storage
  • Webcast: Introduction to Failover Clustering
  • Webcast: Reducing IT Overhead with Windows Server 2008 Storage Features

  ·         Webcast: Top 10 Windows Server 2008 Failover Clustering Enhancements over 2003 Clustering (Level 300)

  • Webcast: Virtual Lab: Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Failover Clustering Lab

  ·         Website: Windows Logo site

  ·         Whitepaper: Failover Cluster Architecture Overview

  ·         Whitepaper: HA with Microsoft MPIO (2003, 2008)

  ·         Whitepaper: Microsoft’s HA Strategy

  ·         Whitepaper: Overview of Failover Clustering

  Multi-Site Clustering

  ·         Blog: Multi-Site Cluster Communications Connectivity

  ·         KB Article: Deployment Consideration for Multi-Site Clusters

  ·         TechNet: Configuring Heartbeat and DNS Settings in a Multi-Site Cluster

  ·         TechNet: Design for a HA Service in a Multi-Site Cluster 

  ·         TechNet: Multi-Site Cluster Checklist

  ·         TechNet: Multi-Site Clustering

  ·         TechNet: Requirements and Recommendations for a Multi-Site Cluster

  ·         Website: Multi-Site Clustering Homepage

  ·         Webcast: Geographically Dispersed Failover Clustering in Windows Server 2008 Enterprise

  ·         Webcast: How You Can Achieve Greater Availability with Failover Clustering Across Multiple Sites (Level 300) 

  ·         Webcast: Multi-Site Clustering in Windows Server 2008

  ·         Website (Cluster Team): http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/failover-clustering-multisite.aspx

  ·         Whitepaper: Multi-site Clustering

  Network Load Balancing

  ·         Blog: Configuring Network Load Balancing (NLB) Cluster of VPN Servers 

  ·         Blog: Exchange Server 2007 using Network Load Balancing (NLB)

  ·         Blog: Network Load Balancing (NLB) and Virtual Machines

  ·         Blog: PowerShell for Network Load Balancing (NLB) in Windows Server 2008 R2

  ·         Blog: UAG Array and Network Load Balancing  

  ·         KB Article: Create/manage/destroy NLB clusters via NLB Manager remotely from another server or RSAT

  ·         KB Article: NLB Troubleshooting Overview

  ·         Presentation Deck: Server Core: Install the NLB feature

  ·         TechNet: Configuring NLB with Terminal Services

  ·         TechNet: Controlling Hosts on NLB clusters

  ·         TechNet: Creating NLB Clusters

  ·         TechNet: Implementing a new NLB Cluster

  ·         TechNet: Managing NLB Clusters

  ·         TechNet: NLB Deployment Guide

  ·         TechNet: NLB Overview

  ·         TechNet: Overview of NLB

  ·         TechNet: Setting NLB Parameters

  ·         TechNet: Troubleshooting for System Event Messages Related to NLB Cluster

  ·         TechNet: Upgrading a NLB Cluster

  ·         TechNet: Upgrading a Network Load Balancing (NLB) Cluster

  ·         TechNet: User Interface: NLB Manager

  ·         TechNet: Verifying the NLB Cluster and Enabling Client Access

  ·         Utility: NLB Management Pack for SCOM 2007 Released

  ·         Webcast: 24 Hours of Windows Server 2008 (Part 23 of 24): Failover Clustering and Network Load Balancing

  ·         Website: NLB with IIS

  Other Resources & Workloads

  For information about a specific resource (Exchange, File Server, Hyper-V, Print, SQL), please visit that section.

  ·         Blog: Configure Multiple Instances of MSDTC (2008)

  ·         Blog: Creating and Configuring a Generic Application Resource

  ·         Blog: Creating and Configuring a Generic Service Resource

  ·         Blog: Deploying IIS on a Failover Cluster

  ·         Blog: DHCP Database migration to Windows Server 2008

  ·         Blog: Installing MSDTC (2003)

  ·         KB Article: Configuring IIS 7 in a Windows Server 2008 Failover Cluster

  ·         MSDN: Cluster Custom Resource DLL entry points

  ·         MSDN: Creating Customer Resource DLLs

  ·         TechNet: Cluster Custom Resource DLLs

  ·         TechNet: Configure a Service or Application for High Availability

  ·         TechNet: Configuring Generic Resources

  ·         Whitepaper: Configuring and Troubleshooting AD CS (2008)

  ·         Whitepaper: SQL Server 2008 Failover Clustering

  PowerShell, Cluster.exe & Scripting

  ·         Blog: Adding Features via PowerShell

  ·         Blog: CLI: Adding Disks

  ·         Blog: CLI: Cluster Creation

  ·         Blog: CLI: Cluster Resource Groups

  ·         Blog: CLI: Disk Resources

  ·         Blog: CLI: Quorum

  ·         Blog: Creating a Cluster using WMI

  ·         Blog: Failover Clusters, Performance Counters, and PowerShell

  ·         Blog: PowerShell for Failover Clustering: Frequently Asked Questions

  ·         Blog: PowerShell for Failover Clustering: Getting Started

  ·         Blog: PowerShell for Failover Clustering: Read-Only Cluster Access

  ·         Blog: PowerShell for Failover Clustering in Windows Server 2008 R2

  ·         Blog: PowerShell for Network Load Balancing (NLB) in Windows Server 2008 R2

  ·         Blog: PowerShell Remoting and the “Double-Hop” Problem

  ·         Blog: Failover Clustering WMI Provider Impersonation Limitations

  ·         TechNet: How to create an Exchange SCC Failover Cluster with CMD

  Print Clustering

  ·         Blog: Optimize Print Cluster (2003)

  ·         Blog: PrintBRM Error 0x80070043 workaround

  ·         TechNet: Deploy a 2-Node Print Cluster

  ·         TechNet: Print Migration Guide

  ·         TechNet: Print Migration Overview

  ·         TechNet: Print Migration Tool/Wizard

  SQL Server

  ·         Blog: Clustering SQL Server 2008 and Server 2008

  ·         KB Article: How to change the network IP addresses of SQL Server failover cluster instances

  ·         KB Article: SQL Server 2008 Rolling Upgrades

  • MSDN: Add or Remove nodes in a SQL Server 2005 with MSCS
  • MSDN: Configuring SQL Server 2000 Failover Clustering
  • MSDN: Configuring SQL Server 2005 Failover Clustering
  • MSDN: Getting Started with SQL Server 2008 Failover Clustering

  ·         MSDN: How to create a new SQL Failover Cluster

  ·         MSDN: SQL Upgrade Paths

  ·         MSDN: SQL Cluster Upgrade

  ·         MSDN: Upgrade Paths for SQL Server

  ·         MSDN: Upgrade SQL on a Failover Cluster

  ·         MSDN: Books Online: Maintaining a SQL Failover Cluster

  ·         Podcast: FAQs: HA with SQL Server 2008

  ·         TechNet: Database Mirroring and Failover Clustering

  ·         TechNet: Database Mirroring in SQL Server 2005

  • TechNet: SQL Server 2000 with Failover Clustering

  ·         TechNet:  SQL Server 2005 Database Mirroring FAQs

  • Webcast: 24 Hours of SQL Server 2008: Ensuring Business Continuity
  • Webcast:  Achieving Higher Scalability with SQL Server on Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition (Level 300)
  • Webcast: An Introduction to How SQL Server 2005 Can Help You Deliver Highly Available Database Systems (Level 200)
  • Webcast: Clustering Windows Server 2003 and SQL Server 2000/2005 (Level 200)
  • Webcast: Clustering Windows Server 2003 and SQL Server 2000 and 2005 (Level 200) 
  • Webcast: Ensuring Business Continuance with SQL Server 2005 Data Availability Solutions (Level 300)

  ·         Webcast: How to cluster Microsoft SQL Server 2005 by using Microsoft Virtual Server

  ·         Webcast: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Failover Clustering on Windows Server 2008

  • Webcast: Overview of SQL Server Availability Features and Upcoming Improvements
  • Webcast: SQL Server 2005 Failover Clustering for SQL Server 2000 Users (Level 200)
  • Webcast: SQL Server 2005 for the IT Professional (Part 7 of 11): Technologies and Features to Improve Availability (Level 200)

  ·         Whitepaper: SQL Server 2008 Replication: Providing High Availability using Database Mirroring

  Utilities

  ·         Utility: ClusPrep: Cluster Configuration Validation Wizard (2003)

  ·         Utility: Failover Cluster Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007

  ·         Utility: File Server Migration Toolkit (FSMT) (2008)

  ·         Utility: Microsoft iSCSI Target Software available to the public!

  ·         Utility: NLB Management Pack for SCOM 2007 Released

  ·         Utility: RSAT - Remote Server Administration Tools (2008)

  ·         Utility: RSAT – Remote Server Administration Tools (2008 R2)

See Also

• Wiki: List of Technologies and Related Topics
• Wiki: Survival Guides Portal
• Hyper-V Portal