Creating a WinServer 2008 Cluster within Hyper-V Using Simulated iSCSI Storage

Can you tell we're getting close to Hyper-V shipping later this summer? There's been plenty of blog posts and articles about Hyper-V as people play around with its features and kick its virtual tires in the lab. This one comes courtesy of Gavin McShera with Microsoft Ireland: How to create a Windows Server 2008 Cluster within Hyper-V using simulated iSCSI storage.

Familiar with Virtual Server 2005 and shared disks for creating virtual clusters? Well it's different with Hyper-V.  The shared disk option is no longer available (which I did not know when I started testing).  You have to use iSCSI instead. Here is a step by step method for creating a fail-over cluster within Hyper-V.  It's a cheap way of setting up a test lab.  n this post I use StarWind to simulate iSCSI storage.

You might want to familiarize yourself with the storage options available for Hyper-V before you start to follow along. By the end of the post you should have a simple two-node cluster up and running using simulated iSCSI storage.