Newbie Question about MSCS (Microsoft Cluster Service) and P2V

[Froste]

I have a number of old Physical server that are currently running Microsoft Clustering Service, I would like to P2V these servers into my ESX 3.02 environment. I am familar with how to create a new Clustered VM in ESX and how to P2V, but I am unsure the process of the conversion as the Cluster will use RAW drives.

I thnak you in advance for your help.

[admin · Accepted solution]

You won't be able to P2V the cluster per se. At best, you could dismantle the cluster and then P2V an individual node. But Converter will create a VM with a .vmdk for the new virtual node. You will then need to create an RDM for the shared storage for the node before creating a second node to recreate the cluster in ESX Server.