My goal was to build a home lab to test out some of the new cool features in Hyper-v 2.0 such as Live Migration and Processor Compatability mode.
To do this I created a shared storage environment and a 2 node failover cluster with different processors (Same family AMD).
The kit:
Hp desktop pc vista(This will host the Shared Storage server)
Custom Built machine (Node 1) AMD-V support
Hp dv9000 laptop (Node 2) AMD-V support
The story so far
Shared Storage
I Downloaded and installed Starwind on my vista laptop. The reason im using Starwind as my ISCSI target rather than something like openfiler or FreeNas is that Starting with Windows 2008, the cluster software requires your iSCSI target software to support something called "persistent reseration commands". These are based on the SCSI Primary commands-3 specs (SPC-3), and most open source software (with the possible exception of OpenSolaris) is based on SCSI-2, and does not support these reservation commands.
Note once installed create a firewall rule to allow tcp port 3260. I created 2 iscsi targets located on a usb attached external 1 terabyte disk. Needless to say this is for lab purposes only.
On Nodes 1 and 2 I installed Windows 2008 R2 enterprise eddition.
For the low down details have a look at my lab step by step.
The Lab
http://sites.google.com/site/alexcrawford/Home/Hyper-VLab1InstallingHyper-V2NodeCluster.pdf?
