2012R2 MSCS clustering on ESXi 5.5 build 2718005 issues

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  anyone else facing the pleasure like this?

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  Of course, I have it works very well, but with a Quadro2k and a Quadro4k.

  Take a look in this whitepaper for instructions, be aware that it is not fully supported yet and you might have to tinker a bit to make it work.

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  Hi, I would like to have an answer for me as soon as possible

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  and I guess I will not check no management, FT, bus sharing and vmotion right ISCSI?

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  Go to/var/core. You will find the dump files named vmkernel - zdump.x.

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  Look for the the CMTF stack dump it.

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