Binsfeldius Cluster, add storage to specific VM for DFS

For my test environment, well basically in any Windows environment, its good to have a single point of access to a location where you can share files. This is where you can keep profiles, installers, ISO’s, the SCVMM library, etc.

Now, how do you get a piece of the storage (you don’t want to use a local disk within a VM for DFS!) attached to a VM which does not have direct access to the TTG Storage Network (the 12-network) ?

How you do it

• Create an iSCSI target with a mapped LUN, in this case I’ve created a LUN called TTGDFS.
• Attach this LUN to each clusternode and connect.

Start Failover Cluster Manager. right-click Storage and select Add Disk. You see the LUN and disk here so put a tickmark in the box and click OK.

Now you see the disk in the storage list.

1. In Failover Cluster Manager, go to Services and applications and select the VM you want to add the storage to.
2. Right-click the VM and select Add storage
3. Select the disk.
4. In this screen, select the VM (Asmodeus), right-click for Settings.
5. Now, on the IDE Controller,  add a new hard disk and select the disk you’ve just added to Failover Cluster Manager from the Physical hard disk pulldown menu.

That’s it. The disk is now attached to this VM through the clusternodes. The beauty of this is that if you Live Migrate the VM to another node, the disk goes with it! Just tried it and it works perfectly.

Now I can use this disk for DFS for the entire domain. Next step is to configure DFS.