MSCS - Clustering in a box

[soerenv]

Hello All,

Is clustering in a box (CIB) possible and supported on vsan?

Thanks in advance.

[vThinkBeyondVM]

Officially (from VMware) vSAN is not supported on MSCS. However, as per my understanding, it may work for CIB. You can give a try in test environment. 

Message was edited by: Vikas

[Anton_Kolomyeyt]

Directly - no. But you may run "proxy" VM feeding some shared storage to MSCS. What exactly do you want to cluster?

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Is clustering in a box (CIB) possible and supported on vsan?

[soerenv]

I want to find out what my possibilities are for Microsoft SQL Server 2012.

I know I have VMWare HA, but MS clustering gives some advantages regarding maintenance, and is also useful in case of OS error (BSOD).

I am also looking at the "Always On", but that is an SQL Server Enterprise Edition feature, and it has to be supported by the applications as well.

[Anton_Kolomyeyt · Accepted solution]

For SQL Server the best thing you can do is to use AlwaysOn Availability Groups. This config requires Windows Cluster but does not require shared storage. See:

Step-By-Step: Creating a SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Availability Group - Canadian IT Professionals - ...

Let's assume you have 3 physical hypervisor hosts. So make:

HostA: Primary SQL Server VM

HostB: Secondary SQL Server VM

HostC: Windows VM with SMB3 share to handle MSFT cluster witness

Simple

Good luck!

Anton

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I want to find out what my possibilities are for Microsoft SQL Server 2012.

I know I have VMWare HA, but MS clustering gives some advantages regarding maintenance, and is also useful in case of OS error (BSOD).

I am also looking at the "Always On", but that is an SQL Server Enterprise Edition feature, and it has to be supported by the applications as well.