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tpowers85
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‎03-26-2013 06:34 AM

Migrate MS cluster (using RDM's) to physical MS cluster

I have a 2 node MS cluster using 2008 R2 with attached RDM's in VMware ESXi 5, and I am going to migrate them to new physical servers.  I have never done a migration like this, but I was thinking of attaching the RDM disks to my physical servers and adding them to my current cluster.  I will then fail over my cluster onto one of the physical nodes and then remove the VM's from the cluster.  Will this work or has someone done this and has a better recommendation?

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‎03-26-2013 06:49 AM

I haven't done this but would have thought as long you have your RDMs on a SCSI controller with SCSI Bus Sharing set to Physical this would be work.  Making necessary changes to share the LUN to ESXi host(s) and new physical servers.

Edit:  As you have a MSCS on ESXi you may have seen this already, it covers a cluster in a physical and virtual machine scenario, so the requirements may be relevant to you.

http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-50-mscs-gu...

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