Support for MSCS clustering in 3.5

[dalfonso01]

Hi,

I read on VMWare site that MS clusters are no longer supported.

Does this mean that is no longer possible to share disks among virtual machines to test clustered services such as SQL 2005 or Exchange 2003 ?

Thanks

Fabio D'Alfonso

[mike_laspina]

Hello,

You are reading correctly, at this time the VMware is still testing MSCS on 3.5 and when they are ready the will announce it.

Till then if you have a problem you will need to be ready to validate a fault on a supported platform in order to push for VMware support.

[dalfonso01]

Hi,

thank you for the answer.

I was wondering if the support was removed, while from your post it is only a matter of time and technically it can be done already also if not yet officially supported.

It it that right?

Thanks

Fabio D'Alfonso

[mike_laspina]

While I do not speak for VMware (I am not an employee) this is what the have said unofficially to some forum members.

The current position is removed from support and could stay that way but it is not VMware's goal according to what I know to date..

[vaknin]

Hello

I test this on my LAB and create exchange 2003 on microsoft cluster.

It's work

E.

[Texiwill]

Hello,

While MSCS may work in v3.5 unless its officially supported by VMware you could get into an unsupported position and that would be a Bad Idea, given that support will not be able to help you. For production I would definitely stay away from it until the official announcement comes out. In the test lab, I am not so sure unless its a production QA lab, then I would also stay away from it as QA should mimic production as close as possible.

Best regards,

Edward L. Haletky

VMware Communities User Moderator

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