Vmware Windows Cluster Shared Disk

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This is simple step by step for adding shared storage to virtual machine on VMware ESXi using vCenter.
I am doing this for Creating a MS SQL cluster for MS SharePoint 2013.

11 Steps total

The following are the requirements of the VHD Set guest clustering virtual disk technology: The virtual machines need to be powered off to add a VHD Set virtual disk The VHD Set format is only supported on the guest operating system running Windows Server 2016; Compatible underlying storage for the VHD Set storage, i.e. Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV). To do an offline extension of the disk partition in Windows Server 2003, follow these steps: Back up the shared disk (or disks) that you want to extend. Power off all but one node in the cluster. Take the entire group that the physical disk resource is located in offline. Bring only the physical disk resource that is to be extended online. SCSI3-PRs native support enables customers to create a new or move an existing Windows Server Failover Cluster (WSFC) with up to 6 nodes and 64 shared disks to VMware vSAN backend VMDKs. SCSI3-PRs commands, used by WSFC to claim the ownership of a shared disk, are transparently passed to a VMDK and are arbitrated on the vSAN layer to simulate a.

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Step 1: Edit Settings of first vm click add..

Step 2: Select Hard Disk, select create new virtual disk

Step 3: Modify Disk size and select think provisioned Eager Zeroed and select a datastore with browse

Step 4: Change the Virtual device node to SCSI (1:0) or higher you cannot use (0:1)

Step 5: Then click finish to create the disk.

Step 6: You then need to shut the machine down to modify the SCSI controller options

Set them as required for you matching VM type

Windows Server 2003 SP1 and SP2 LSI Logic Parallel
Windows Server 2008 SP2 and above LSI Logic SAS

You need to change the SCSI Bus Sharing to Virtual and click okay.

Step 7: Adding the same disk to second server. Add HDD again but on select a disk choose the Use an existing disk option

Step 8: Click browse to select the same disk you created in stage 1 it will be in a folder with the same name as the first server.

Step 9: Change the SCSI option to match the number on the disk SCSI (1:0)

Step 10: Check the SCSI controller is set up in the same way as step 6 and step 7

Step 11: Repeat with all additional disks but increase SCSI numbers ie (1:1) (1:2) etc

Vmware Windows Cluster Shared Disk Recovery

There is much more info and more complex guides on the VMware website
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1037959

Vmware Shared Disk Cluster Windows 2012

4 Comments

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  • Jalapeno
    seshathriswamy Sep 23, 2014 at 08:44pm

    Useful update. i also worked on this thanks for the posting.

  • Cayenne
    jim.mcneil Feb 4, 2015 at 12:10pm

    Like finding things like this for reference. thanks for posting.

  • Anaheim
    Ken4869 Nov 13, 2015 at 05:44pm

    The end of the VMware KB mentioned in the conclusion has links to what I found as the most helpful article. For VMware/ESXi 5.5 Update 2: http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-55/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-552-setup-mscs.pdf

  • Pimiento
    xyllywyt Mar 1, 2017 at 01:08am

    Were there any special attributes on the disk inside windows itself. EG, marking it as shared or did Windows auto detect it ?