Move to clustering....advice needed

[Disease]

Hi all,

 

Just need some advice on how you would approach this task

 

I currently have 3 stand alone Hyper-v servers all are identical in spec hosting various server VMs.

 

I want to move this to a 3 node cluster but using the existing 3 Servers as the cluster. I have set up a Clustered shared volume for Hyper-v in readiness on our Nimble Storage Box to hold the VMs but have not yet connected anything to it.

 

How would you go about moving everything across and what precautions/pitfalls to I need to be aware of in the process. Do I need to move the VMs off of the hosts before adding them to a cluster etc.

 

Each server has 128GB RAM and 16 physical cores/32 logical.

 

Thanks in advance.

[clodhopper]

Networking between them is very important. We have separate networks for Storage, Live migration / Cluster communication and main VM connections onto the network (6 network ports in total as use multipath for storage).

 

Some really good how to's on YouTube etc.

 

Once you have the servers clustered you can move them onto the CSV & then make them high availability via the Failover cluster manager

Edited April 28, 2016 by clodhopper

[Disease]

So can I cluster them initially with the existing VMs still on them? Edited April 28, 2016 by Disease

[clodhopper]

Looks like you can

 

https://araihan.wordpress.com/2014/12/05/migrating-vms-from-standalone-hyper-v-host-to-clustered-hyper-v-host/

 

https://www.credera.com/blog/technology-insights/microsoft-solutions/migrating-hyper-v-virtual-machines-to-a-failover-cluster/

[Disease]

Brilliant, thanks for the info.