Need to move VM from local drive to our clustered environment.

Terry Mergl 41 Reputation points
2020-09-01T18:02:17.057+00:00

Apologies for my lack of virtual terminology. I am following the lead of a ex co-worker. Our environment consists of two hosts, each running various VMs. We utilize a Nimble for our storage volumes, as well as Fail over Cluster Manager.

On one host, there are two VM's whose config and vhd's are stored on a local drive. I need to move the config/vhd to a newly created volume on the nimble and get it added to the Fail over Cluster Manager.

Thoughts?
Thanks in advance.

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  1. Xiaowei He 9,891 Reputation points
    2020-09-02T05:55:16.523+00:00

    Hi,

    ---I need to move the config/vhd to a newly created volume on the nimble and get it added to the Failover Cluster Manager.

    1. Firstly, please create a cluster with the two nodes.
    2. Please ensure the Nimble storage is connected to both cluster nodes, then online the shared disk in "disk management" on one of the cluster nodes.
    3. Add the storage disk into the cluster, and add the shared disk to be CSV.

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    Then, we may see the CSV in the path C:\ClusterStorage:

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    1. Open Hyper V manager, move the local VM's storage to the ClusterStorage volume:

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    1. After move the VM's storage to CSV volume, we may add the VM into the Cluster:

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    Thanks for your time!
    Best Regards,
    Anne

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