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Chapter 8: High Availability > Building a Failover Cluster for Hyper-V
Building a Failover Cluster for Hyper-V
As noted earlier, building a failover cluster for Hyper-V Quick Migration or Live Migration is a straightforward process of configuring multiple, similar physical servers with shared networking, shared storage, and Windows Server 2008 R2. At a high level, you follow these steps to build a failover cluster for Hyper-V like the one shown in Figure 8-5:
1. Configure the network infrastructure.
2. Install required roles, features, and updates.
3. Provision storage, and prepare the disk.
4. Validate the cluster.
5. Create the cluster.
6. Enable CSV (if desired).
7. Configure the service or application.
Figure 8-5: Example cluster configuration
Setting Up a Failover Cluster
In the remainder of this chapter, we’ll walk you through these high-level steps and the details behind them required to configure a typical two-node Hyper-V failover cluster. We’ll also include tips to help you develop insight into the overall process. The entire procedure used here should take less than one workday, including all the required tasks from unpacking and installing hardware through installing and configuring failover clustering. We will first walk through creating a failover cluster on full (non-Core) installations of Windows Server 2008 R2. Then we’ll touch on some key points you should know for using Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 and Server Core.
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