Building a Windows cluster using VMware
Written by: Mark Wilson
Over the last few days, I’ve been testing a Windows cluster in a virtual environment. Of course, the whole point of a cluster is a highly available system running on specialised hardware, but for test purposes a virtual environment can be really handy.
It’s a bit tricky, but it works! The information on how to achieve this is contained in two TechRepublic articles by Steven Warren:
Posted: 18:00 on Friday 26 March 2004 under VMware Workstation, Windows.
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Time: Monday 13 June 2005, 10:27
[...] year, I blogged about building a Windows cluster using VMware. Since then, new versions of VMware have made this more difficult/expensive (as it no longer works [...]
Comment from ciril
Time: Wednesday 25 April 2007, 11:32
Cool. I was looking at setting up 20 nodes based on Mini ITX machines.
Here:
http://www.mini-itx.com/
Regards
Comment from Carole Malvern
Time: Sunday 3 August 2008, 8:36
As you mentioned in your comment above, the virtualization world has moved on quite a bit since you pointed to these articles by Steven Warren on how to build an MSCS cluster with VMware.
Oddly enough though, I still don’t find any resources that describe how to do this in modern versions of VMware (such as Workstation 5.x, Server 1.x, or ESX 3.x), and Steven Warren’s articles are no longer available on TechRepublic.
Would you be so kind as to bring this laggard up-to-speed on how this should be done in today’s virtualization world, using a modern VMware platform?
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