Hi...
My basic question is this... given that the only servers that I plan on giving access to a shared storage device are virtual servers, do I need to implement a cluster at the physical server level?
I'm running a PAIR of physical servers that have the following characteristics:
Server 2012 R2 x64 Hyper-V Core
256 GB Memory
3 TB RAID Internal Drive (Hosts the Core OS)
Dual port fibre-channel HBA
Additionally, I have an external NexSan storage device configured with 8 drives in a RAID 10 array. The NexSan device has two dual-port fiber-channel controllers.
Currently I have the NexSan storage device connected and their MSIO drivers installed. Everything looks good at the physical level. Both servers see the NexSan storage device over Fibre-Channel.
I've run the Cluster Configuration Validator utility using the 2 physical servers as the intended cluster pair and the report comes back clean. (I had to make a couple of updates to my Hyper-V configuration but now the report is clean.)
In reality, I plan to use the shared storage only between 2 VM's. To that end, my preference would be to create the cluster between the 2 VM servers. This is what prompts my question. Is there any reason for me to cluster my 2 physical Hyper-V servers if all I want to do is cluster 2 VMs? (VM1 is on physical server 1 and VM2 is on physical server 2).
Thanks,
Brett