Windows server 2008 R2 Failover clustering on VMWARE Compatibility

Question

Discussion  About Windows Server 2008 R2 And SQL Server 2008 R2 Failover clustering on VMWare ESXi 4.1 compatible or not...?

For small production level :

How many servers required and what are all Hardware components and shared storage ....with purpose also need to explain.

Give me a suggestion it will help for every one... 

Answer 1

check this blog

http://sudeeptaganguly.wordpress.com/2011/01/31/building-a-sql-server-2008-r2-cluster-part-vi/

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Ramesh Babu Vavilla MCTS,MSBI

Answer 2

can you explain about FreeNAS where you installed in below mentioned servers and you configured 6 disks, what purpose you used.

VM Name	Operating System	Functionality	Public LAN IP
BLRDC01	Windows 2008 Eval	DC, DNS	172.16.10.1/255.255.0.0
BLRC100	Windows 2008 Eval	Cluster Node 1	172.16.10.100/255.255.0.0
BLRC101	Windows 2008 Eval	Cluster Node 2	172.16.10.101/255.255.0.0

In vmware servers iSCSI supports or not....?

Answer 3

To day I tested Failover Clustering with below mentioned resource.

I Configured 4 VMware Servers (with VMWARE ESXi 5.0)

1.server configuration (DC):

          RAM: 4GB

         HDD : 100GB

OS: Windows server 2008 R2 Enterprise sp1 Trail

 2. iSCSI Server Configuration :                                       

          RAM: 8GB

         HDD : 600GB 

          OS  : Windows server 2008 R2 Enterprise sp1 Trail 

Microsoft iSCSI software  

3.Node1 Server Configuration :                                       

          RAM: 8GB

         HDD : 100GB

          OS  : Windows server 2008 R2 Enterprise sp1 Trail

       SqlServer 2008 R2 sp1( must)

4.Node2 server Configuration :                                     

          RAM: 8GB

         HDD : 100GB

          OS  : Windows server 2008 R2 Enterprise sp1 Trail

         SqlServer 2008 R2 sp1 Enterprise( must)

I configured successfully windows and sqlserver Failover clustering in above configuration. So finally I have cleared my doubts VMWare Esxi 5.0 and 4.0 is suitable.