Making a Virtual Machine a Clustered Virtual Machine
To create a new clustered virtual machine using Failover Cluster Manager, select the
Virtual Machines ➣ New Virtual Machine action from the Roles navigation node, as
shown in Figure 7.30. This prompts for the node on which to initially create the virtual
machine. Then the normal New Virtual Machine Wizard as seen in Hyper-V Manager
launches and allows all the attributes of the virtual machine to be specified.
Figure 7.30 Creating a new clustered virtual machine using Failover Cluster
Manager
If you have existing virtual machines that are hosted on cluster nodes but are not
actually cluster resources, it is easy to make a virtual machine a clustered resource:
1 . Within Failover Cluster Manager, select the Configure Role action from the Roles
navigation node.
2 . Click Next on the wizard introduction screen.
3 . From the list of available role types, scroll down, and select Virtual Machine, and
then click Next.
4 . You’ll see a list of all virtual machines that are running on the cluster hosts but are
not clustered. Select the check boxes for the virtual machines you wish to cluster,
as shown in Figure 7.31, and click Next.
5 . Click Next on the configuration screen.
6 . Once complete, click Finish.