Configuring ibmvss with Hyper-V Cluster

You can configure ibmvss with Hyper-V Cluster on Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012 Cluster.

Before you begin

Before configuring ibmvss with Hyper-V Cluster, you must create the cluster with the hosts. Complete the following requirements to configure ibmvss with Hyper-V Cluster:
  • All hosts should have the same external virtual network in Hyper-V management
  • All node IP addresses must be added to the VM hosts file
  • The cluster node IP address should be in one subnet and have only one cluster IP
  • Create a VM base on CSV (cluster shared volumes)
  • Copy the ibmrescan.exe tool to all nodes, with a path similar to C:\ibmrescan.exe

Procedure

Complete the following steps to configure ibmvss for Hyper-V:

  1. Add cluster hosts to storage via iSCSI or Fibre Channel (FC), and add a volume to all the nodes as the source volume.
  2. Create a free pool and a resolve pool, and map some volumes (the same size as the source volume) to the free pool.
  3. In Failover Cluster Manager, click Storage, right-click Add a storage and add the source volume as available storage in the cluster.
  4. In Failover Cluster Manager, right-click VM and choose Add storage, then add the source volume as a disk drive of the VM.
  5. Set the source volume as a VM passthrough disk, from the VM online the passthrough disk.
  6. To check the ibmvss configuration, install the ibmvss in the VM and open the command prompt, change directory to the ibmvss installed path and run the ibmvcfg.exe showcfg command.
  7. Run the ibmvcfg.exe set vmhost clusterip command to set the vmhost. For example ibmvcfg.exe set vmhost 9.115.27.190. Besides clusterip, all host IP addresses can be used as the vmhost.
  8. Run the ibmvcfg.exe set vmusername administrator command to set the host username.
  9. Run the ibmvcfg.exe set vmpassword command to set the host password.
  10. Run the ibmvcfg.exe set vmdomain command to set the domain.
  11. Run the ibmvcfg.exe set rescanDeviceCmd c:\ibmrescan.exe command to rescan devices on the physical host.