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ghostdog74
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‎04-11-2014 07:00 AM

Dummy shared disk

Hi,

I want to setup a test environment with 2 Windows 2012 R2 VMs with Microsoft Clustering. Is it possible to use a "dummy" shared disk as I don't have physical storage like SANs around.

thanks

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crawfordm
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‎04-11-2014 07:11 AM

Here are some articles on how to setup

- How to setup a SQL Failover Cluster with VMware WorkStation | Tracy Sells

- Setup Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 Failover Cluster in VMware Workstation

- Windows 2003 Microsoft Cluster on Vmware Workstation 7 Step by Step

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ghostdog74
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‎04-11-2014 08:32 PM

hi,

thanks for your helpful articles. A question if you don't mind. The cluster service need to be run as Local System Account (am using Windows 2012 r2) or a domain admin account? I am using a domain admin account to start the Cluster Wizard. I googled a bit and found that some say leave Local System Account as it is, some say use a domain admin account to run the service. thanks

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