Hyper v and SAP MSCS

[former_member319296]

In a test environment on Hyper v , I have created two guest ( child) windows 2008 r2 systems. Now , i want to do the MSCS clustering on these two guest systems treating them as node1 and node2.

I require inputs for following question

1. How the SAN storage will be visible to both the child nodes at same time. ( The SAN partitions are visible to Hyper v host and also getting added as device to guest machine , however they are not getting attached to both virtual machines at same time)

Regards

Dharm Singh

[markus_doehr2 · Accepted solution]

> 1. How the SAN storage will be visible to both the child nodes at same time. ( The SAN partitions are visible to Hyper v host and also getting added as device to guest machine , however they are not getting attached to both virtual machines at same time)

You'll have to use iSCSI as storage protocol:

http://blogs.technet.com/b/pfe-ireland/archive/2008/05/16/how-to-create-a-windows-server-2008-cluste...

Markus

[xymanuel]

Is MSCS supported in hyper-v?

Because in vSphere it is not

http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r40_u1/vsp_40_u1_mscs.pdf

We donu2019t support iscsi for mscs even if the software initiator in run from within windows, or with any other method. Technically you might be able to get it to work but you will have an unsupported setup if you ever hit any issues. As such I cannot recommend you go down this route.

Regards

Manuel