> We're currently using Hyper-V with Windows Failover Clustering. Since our
> SAN has a limit of 32 on the number of LUN's supported we'de like to
> combine a number of virtual machines into a single failover application so
> they can share the same LUN.
> Is there any way to add another virtual machine to an existing virtual
> machine cluster application?
> I guess we could do it manually but the content of the 'VmSwitchPorts'
> private property of the virtual machine configuration isn't very clear to
> me. Is there any documentation on how to manually create that property?
>
> Stefan Cuypers
>
>

> This is what you are after:
> http://support.microsoft.com/?id=951308
>
> Allow for more than one virtual machine in a "Services or Applications"
> group: This is one of the important updates, we will now let you
> add/select multiple virtual machines in High Availability (HA)wizard. The
> wizard will detect if there are multiple VM's that have files on the same
> clustered disk. If it is the case they will be enabled and configured for
> HA
>
> However, do understand that if 1 machine within the Cluster Applicaction
> group fails all virtual machines with move to the other node.
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> --
> Kurt Roggen [BE]
> http://trycatch.be/blogs/roggenk
>
>
> "Stefan Cuypers" <(email address - cut out)alias> wrote in message
> news:(email address - cut out)...
>> We're currently using Hyper-V with Windows Failover Clustering. Since our
>> SAN has a limit of 32 on the number of LUN's supported we'de like to
>> combine a number of virtual machines into a single failover application
>> so they can share the same LUN.
>> Is there any way to add another virtual machine to an existing virtual
>> machine cluster application?
>> I guess we could do it manually but the content of the 'VmSwitchPorts'
>> private property of the virtual machine configuration isn't very clear to
>> me. Is there any documentation on how to manually create that property?
>>
>> Stefan Cuypers
>>
>>
>

> Thanks a lot for the information. I'll try this update. It seems to solve
> most of the issues I have with Hyper-V in cluster.
>
> Stefan.
>
> "Kurt Roggen [BE]" <(email address - cut out)> wrote in message
> news:(email address - cut out)...
>> This is what you are after:
>> http://support.microsoft.com/?id=951308
>>
>> Allow for more than one virtual machine in a "Services or Applications"
>> group: This is one of the important updates, we will now let you
>> add/select multiple virtual machines in High Availability (HA)wizard. The
>> wizard will detect if there are multiple VM's that have files on the same
>> clustered disk. If it is the case they will be enabled and configured for
>> HA
>>
>> However, do understand that if 1 machine within the Cluster Applicaction
>> group fails all virtual machines with move to the other node.
>>
>> Hope this helps!
>>
>> --
>> Kurt Roggen [BE]
>> http://trycatch.be/blogs/roggenk
>>
>>
>> "Stefan Cuypers" <(email address - cut out)alias> wrote in message
>> news:(email address - cut out)...
>>> We're currently using Hyper-V with Windows Failover Clustering. Since
>>> our SAN has a limit of 32 on the number of LUN's supported we'de like to
>>> combine a number of virtual machines into a single failover application
>>> so they can share the same LUN.
>>> Is there any way to add another virtual machine to an existing virtual
>>> machine cluster application?
>>> I guess we could do it manually but the content of the 'VmSwitchPorts'
>>> private property of the virtual machine configuration isn't very clear
>>> to me. Is there any documentation on how to manually create that
>>> property?
>>>
>>> Stefan Cuypers
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>