Hello all,
I would like to setup a 2008 R2 cluster across two ESX 5.0 hosts. I followed the "Setup for Failover Clustering and Microsoft Cluster Service" guide and ran into some issues. To begin, I do not have vCentre and all work is being done directly via stand-alone vSphere clients - I suspect this may be the issue. In regards to the shared quorum, I confured the raw FC lun on one the first cluster node on machine #1. The guide states that you must then configure the quorum on the second cluster node by adding a disk and then selecting "use existing volume". When I do this and browse, I cannot see the datastore/volume created on the first machine. I did store the disk info to a datastore on my SAN so it can be shared between machines.
I must have missed something during the process as I cannot seem to understand how the two physical installations are sharing volume information. That is, when I specify "use existing volume" on the second ESX server, how does it know how to reference the shared datastore (where the RDM info is stored) that was created on the first server?
Any assistance would be appreciated.
Thank you.
GM