Creating a virtual machine service group
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Creating a virtual machine service group

To create a virtual machine service group, add a virtual machine on the active failover cluster node.

Note:

Virtual machine and virtual hard disk (.vhd) must be stored in the VMDg resource. This is required to make the virtual machine highly available.

To make the shared storage, i.e, the VMDg resource, available to the virtual machine, you must create the virtual machine on a cluster node that owns the storage. You can either create a new virtual hard disk (.vhd), use an existing .vhd as shown in the procedure below, or you can create it later.

To create a virtual machine

  1. Click Start > Administrative Tools > Failover Cluster Manager.

    If you are not connected to the cluster node that owns the shared storage connect to it.

  2. Click on Service and Applications > Virtual Machine > New > Virtual Machine from the left pane of the Failover Cluster Manager snap-in.
  3. The New Virtual Machine Wizard is launched. Review the information on the welcome page.

    Click Next.

  4. On the Specify Name and Location page, specify a name for the virtual machine, for example, VM1.
  5. Enable the Store the virtual machine in a different location check box, and then type the full path. You can also click Browse and copy the virtual hard disk (VHD) file to the Volume Manager Disk Group (VMDg1) resource created in earlier section of this document for storing the virtual machine.
  6. On the Memory page, specify the amount of memory that is required for the operating system that will run on this virtual machine.
  7. On Configure Networking page, select the network adapter that is configured to use for Hyper-V.
  8. On the Connect Virtual Hard Disk page, three options are shown:

    • Create a new virtual hard disk

    • Use existing virtual hard drive

    • Create virtual hard disk later

    Select the required option and give the path to the VHD (.vhd) file on the Volume Manager Disk Group (VMDg) resource.

    The VHD (.vhd) file must be stored in a location where the VMDg resource is located.

  9. Click Finish to close the wizard.
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