{"id":168,"date":"2012-05-26T13:57:51","date_gmt":"2012-05-26T13:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/?p=168"},"modified":"2012-05-26T21:50:37","modified_gmt":"2012-05-26T21:50:37","slug":"platespin-migrate-8-and-p2v-of-cluster-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/platespin-migrate-8-and-p2v-of-cluster-2\/","title":{"rendered":"PlateSpin Migrate 8 and P2V of Cluster"},"content":{"rendered":"

Using PlateSpin version 8 to P2V a Active\/Active Cluster?<\/strong><\/p>\n

If your looking at virtualizing your infrastructure P2V of standalone systems is straightforward, usually a good idea to defrag drives prior to a P2V but not always essential. Just keep in mind that each of the major vendors P2V tool-sets has different supported operating systems and scenarios (ever tried P2V of NT 4.0?).<\/p>\n

On to a simple 2-node cluster, whether it’s for file, print or SQL, clustered servers present a challenge to those in the middle of a wider P2V project. PlateSpin Migrate 8 officially only supports P2V of Active-Passive 2-node clusters.<\/p>\n

But what about Active-Active? Here are the steps we followed to ensure it worked in a production environment, using VMWare vSphere 5 as target virtual infrastructure:<\/p>\n

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  1. Move all clustered resources to one single node, make note of drive letters for shared disks (e.g, spooler service). Effectively creating an Active\/Passive cluster.<\/li>\n
  2. Ensure empty Node is offline, will shut it down later<\/li>\n
  3. P2V the active node by its name, include ALL disks<\/li>\n
  4. Add prod NIC to the P2V image, ensure the correct IP is entered if static, but DO NOT connect the NIC!!!<\/li>\n
  5. Close down the active physical node<\/li>\n
  6. Close down the inactive physical node<\/li>\n
  7. Now you can activate the production NIC on the P2V<\/li>\n
  8. If the cluster disks are missing, within Disk Management, add in additional disks with previous drive letters. You should find the additional disks as vmdks<\/li>\n
  9. Start Cluster specific services from Services.msc<\/li>\n
  10. Browse to Cluster Manager from Computer Management, it should advise of activating cluster. Do so.<\/li>\n
  11. All cluster resources should come online, showing one dead node<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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