Microsoft Virtualization Discussions

NetApp + Microsoft Cluster + SQL Cluster - HowTO

PLASTIQUE
12,855 Views

Hello everyone


My Colleague is on hospital right now and he´s the best one handling the NetApp here. He won’t be back for 8 weeks so I have to get a new 2-node Active/Passive SQL Cluster up and running on my own..


What I have is Windows 2008 Server ENT, SQL Server 2008 R2 STD. And VMware ESX 4 with vSphere Virtual Center. And ofc  the NetApp Filers. I have today a big VMware environment up and running with some 400 VM´s on the NetApp, but no Windows Clusters.
I would like to have some guidance where it comes to installation order of all components and some on configuration of those:

Microsoft Cluster Services
MPIO
iSCSI initiator ( well it´s on the control panel )
NetApp Host Configuration Utility
NetApp SnapManager
NetApp SnapManager for SQL
Microsoft SQL Server

And where and from what I create and bind the LUN:s, resources in the right order for the cluster services.


I haven’t found any real help on the internet for this scenario, and since my colleague is on hospital, everything has to happen right now, a thousand things to do..

The only thing I found that I have been thinking about is this scenario: https://communities.netapp.com/community/netapp-blogs/msenviro/blog/2011/02/18/install-order-for-hyper-v-clusters But i Don’t know if I need to have MPIO, Host Configuration Utility and so on.

Can you help me with some guidance please

21 REPLIES 21

PLASTIQUE
2,740 Views

The cluster is finaly up and running.

I have a question, how should I setup backup for LUN´s containing Quorum and MS DTC, should those be backed up ? And how could it be restored into the cluster without failures. I have one LUN for Quorum and one for MS DTC.

Public