Hello,
I had 2 VM's with Microsoft Clustering sharing RDM disks.
These VM's run SQL 2008 (development) - and someone thought it would be a great idea to CLUSTER them (NOT ME) its development!!!.
My ultimate GOAL was to convert RDM disks into VMDK, which I accomplished by doing a cold migration to another hosts.
Instead of SHARING RDM disks, I was now sharing VMDKs. But with Clustering in VMware (SCSI Bus Sharing) set to Virtual, there is no way to do snapshots or hot backups of the whole VM.
I can't brake cluster as it would require reinstalling SQL, blah, blah.
So I set out to evict a NODE from the SQL cluster as to have ONE VM, and there would be no need for SCSI Bus Sharing set to virtual.
After I evicted 2nd SQL node, I removed the VMDKs and SCSI adapter, and power it OFF. I then shutdown the 1 node left, and set SCSI Bus Sharing to NONE.
I booted into the VM and no disks mounted except OS disk? I looked in Disk Management and the disks are there but OFFLINE and Reserved. I went back and enabled SCSI Bus Sharing to Virtual, booted backup disks are there and SQL was ONLINE.
How do I get rid of SCSI Bus Sharing? Since its a single node, and no other boxes need access to those disks.
Windows 2008 R2, SQL 2008, VMware 4.1 esxi. please help I just need this to work for another 6 months.
