This recipe will guide you to create a Hyper-V cluster using VMM. Using the steps provided here, you will be able to select Hyper-V servers and join them to a cluster, configuring networking and storage resources in the process.
Before you start creating a Hyper-V cluster, there are some requirements that you need to look at. These are discussed in the next sections.
Make sure that the following prerequisites are met before creating a cluster:
You need at least two standalone Hyper-V servers, and they need to be under VMM management already (see the Adding and managing Hyper-V hosts and host clusters recipe in Chapter 5, Configuring Fabric Resources in VMM).
The hosts should meet the requirements for a Failover Clustering and should be running one of the following operating systems:
For VMM 2012: Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition (SP1 or higher) or Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter Edition (SP1 or...