Installing FailOver Custering Feature and Hyper-V Role on Three Servers

Question

Dear Experts,

I am standing new Infrastructure with new hardware. I have three HP Severs (HPE DL360 Generation 10) and HPE MSA2062 .

My Goal is install and configure Hyper-V With Failover Clustering.

Below are the steps to accomplish my tasks which I shortlisted.

1. Windows Installation on HP Server (**Windows Server 2019 Standard)
2. IP Configuration
3. Domain Join (**Already Have Active Directory)
4. Add Hyper-V Roles
5. Add Failover Clustering Feature
6. Add Multipath I/O feature
7. Validate Failover Cluster Configuration and Select Servers
8. Create Cluster & Add Hosts using Browser and assign Name and an IP
9. Add a disk to cluster CSV we will do it two times as I have two Pools of Disk
   10.We will also add disk witness around 5 GB.

Now I am little bit confused regarding some steps.

As I see multiple blogs/video its necessary step to connect SAN and its volume through ISCI initiator and Configuration of MPIO.

However in my case I have connectivity of SAN through Fiber channel Wire through Server so how should disk will represent to Server (HOST) I think I don’t need to do ISCI initiator steps so what should I do ?

How I can configure Disk WITNESS on my Cluster as I want to quorum disk through disk witness.

Which type of Quorum should I add?
Use the Default Quorum Configuration
Select the Quorum Witness
Advanced Quorum Configuration

kindly help me out in this matter

Answer 1

@Seema Kanwal Gurmani .. You just ask your SAN team to present the drives from Storage . You need to make sure that MPIO is configured so that you don't see duplicate no. of drives. If you do then you can make use of the command mpclaim.exe -r -i -a "". There is no need for ISCsi INItiator configuration.

Answer 2

Hi,

As Kumar suggested, if you are using SAN storage, you may turn to SAN vendor to learn how to present the disks to all cluster nodes.

After we present the disks to the cluster, we may configure the quorum below:

(If you are using file share witness, then choose "configure a file share witness")

Thanks for your time!
Best Regards,
Anne

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Answer 3

Thanks for your response.