We have a two node Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Hyper-V cluster currently hooked up to an older HP storage. We'll shortly get new storage and I'll need to move the existing VMs/production to it.
Both nodes have a single dual-port FC HBA. Both ports are currently occupied, but I can easily free one up, to connect the new FC storage (I won't have redundancy, but it should work).
SCVMM 2012 SP1 is available so my current plan of action is:
- connect the new FC storage as above,
- present the LUNs and create new CSVs,
- create a new Quorum disk on the new storage. This is where I'm having trouble with, should I change the quorum settings of the cluster and to what exactly? Or can I just quickly remove the old quorum and present the new one? Will there be any failures if both nodes are up? I imagine the cluster, production should remain unaffected?
- move the VMs using SCVMM to the new CSVs,
- unmap the old LUNs and that's it.
Any suggestions apart from the quorum where I'm a bit confused? Any additional steps, how would you do it differently?
Both nodes have a single dual-port FC HBA. Both ports are currently occupied, but I can easily free one up, to connect the new FC storage (I won't have redundancy, but it should work).
SCVMM 2012 SP1 is available so my current plan of action is:
- connect the new FC storage as above,
- present the LUNs and create new CSVs,
- create a new Quorum disk on the new storage. This is where I'm having trouble with, should I change the quorum settings of the cluster and to what exactly? Or can I just quickly remove the old quorum and present the new one? Will there be any failures if both nodes are up? I imagine the cluster, production should remain unaffected?
- move the VMs using SCVMM to the new CSVs,
- unmap the old LUNs and that's it.
Any suggestions apart from the quorum where I'm a bit confused? Any additional steps, how would you do it differently?