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9. Repeat steps 2 through 8 to coni gure additional RDMs for shared storage locations
needed by nodes of a Microsoft server cluster.
In this case, we're going to present a single RDM.
10. Power on the i rst node of the cluster. Verify that you've assigned valid IP addresses to
the network adapters coni gured for the production and heartbeat networks. Then format
the new drive representing the RDM and assign drive letters, as shown in Figure 7.9.
Figure 7.9
h e RDM presented
to the fi rst cluster
node is formatted
and assigned a drive
letter.
11. Proceed to the next section to coni gure the second cluster node and the respective
ESXi host.
Creating the Second Cluster Node in Windows Server 2008
Perform the following steps to create the second cluster node:
1. Using the vSphere Web Client, create a second VM running Windows Server 2008 that is
a member of the same Active Directory domain as the i rst cluster node. Ensure that the
VM has two NICs and that the NICs have appropriate IP addresses assigned for the pro-
duction (public) and heartbeat (private) networks.
2. Shut down the second VM.
3. Add the same RDMs to the second cluster node.
This time around, you can't select Raw Device Mappings, because the LUN you selected
when setting up the i rst node won't be listed (it's already been used). Instead, select
Existing Virtual Disk, as shown in Figure 7.7, and then navigate to the location of the
VMDK proxy i le (if you selected Store With The Virtual Machine in step 6 of setting up
the i rst node, you'll i nd a VMDK i le there with the same size as the backing LUN).
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