Configuring Systems in a Microsoft Failover Cluster

If you configure your ztC Endurance system as a node in a Microsoft failover cluster, the following information may apply:

To learn more about creating and using failover clusters, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/failover-clustering/create-failover-cluster?pivots=failover-cluster-manager.

Validating a New or Existing Failover Cluster

Before you create a failover cluster, you must validate your configuration (servers, networks, and storage) by running Validate a Configuration Wizard. You can run this wizard on new or existing failover clusters.

Adding a System to a Failover Cluster

The following procedure describes how to add a system to a failover cluster.

Notice: The 1G MGMT ports must be located on a different subnet from the network being used for the failover cluster/live migrations. Otherwise, because the 1G MGMT ports are not teamed, migration could be disrupted when an I/O failover occurs.

To add the system to the failover cluster

  1. In Windows, open the Failover Cluster Manager snap-in tool.

  2. Open the cluster, and then open its Properties window.

  3. Click the Balancer tab, deselect Enable Automatic Balancing of Virtual Machines, and click Apply.

  4. In the main Failover Cluster Manager window, click Networks.

  5. Right-click the subnet containing the 1G MGMT ports, and open its Properties window.

  6. In the Properties window, select Do not allow cluster network communication on this network, and click Apply.

  7. In the main Failover Cluster Manager window, right-click Networks, and then click Live Migration Settings.

  8. In the Live Migration Settings window, deselect the subnet containing the 1G MGMT ports, and click Apply.

  9. Exit the Failover Cluster Manager tool.