P2V one resource to Cluster MS and not to the cluster nodes

Hello!

We are looking to do a P2V on our file servers, which are all 2 node A / P SAN connected MS Cluster. I see articles where people work to convert the cluster nodes themselves and then have the MS Cluster running on ESX - this isn't what I want to do.

I've not seen any (covered by a research brief) mention of any attempt to make a virtual server Cluster MS. P2V conversion Looks like it is the best deal if it worked.

So I FS1 as the virtual resource with N1 and N2 as nodes.  Can I run a P2V of FS1 crowd for a disk system to capture all the action, then just RDM the SAN LUNS to the VM FS1 newly created? Or am I stuck with the creation of a third node, clustered, expelling the original, closing nodes cluster services and then rename or uses DNS to point to the FULL FS1 domain name?

Thank you!

I know that sounds a good idea but any time
I tried P2V ING I ended up regretting the MSCS clusters. For the file
& Print sharing there is some direct negative side effects but for
The SQL cluster, it is very messy. You can not P2V the virtual server name
(FS1) directly, you must break the cluster and migrate the
individual nodes. But as I said it's a bad idea in any case.

If these are just some cluster file server then the easiest thing to do
is just export actions (they are just a registry key), build a new
clean the VM, attach the existing data as a RDM disk and import the
registry keys. Once your happy that it work, rename the machine as
the former name of virtual node.

http://ServerFault.com/questions/102271/P2V-a-MS-cluster-resource-and-not-the-cluster-nodesvmware

StarWind software developer

www.starwindsoftware.com

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