MS failover clustering Windows 2012 R2 on ESXi 5.5 overall of boxes (Cluster in boxes)

Hi all

Sorry if this noob question. I did search but geeting contradictory information.

I want to install MSCS (using W2K12 R2) on the two machines of ESXi 5.5. I shared the storage through CF. It seems that doing CAB (Cluster across boxes) I have to configure my disks shared as RDM. I was wondering if I can do this with a simple shared VMDK disk. The VMDK disks reside in a shared data bank (Fibre Channel).

Is this supported? Or a simple shared VMDK disk is supported only for the CIB (Cluster in a box)?

Thank you!

fix. Together in a box, it will work.

Cluster in the box, you still need physical rdm mode (scsi controller).

-A

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