Vmware converter sql cluster

As a physical machine running Windows Server used in this example must be converted to a VM running on an ESXi host, VMware Infrastructure virtual machine must be selected in VMware Converter for this step; select the destination server.

Step 3: Destination Virtual Machine. Step 4: Destination Location. Select the ESXi host, cluster or resource pool that is connected to the selected Datacenter and select the datastore available on that ESXi host.

There must be enough free space on the selected datastore. If the modern operating system is installed on a source machine, you can select the latest available virtual machine version hardware version for the destination VM. The virtual machine version that can be selected also depends on a version of the destination ESXi host.

Step 5: Options. This step allows you to select the following options for the destination VM:. Data to copy. Select which disks and volumes you want to copy.

You can select thick or thin provisioning type for destination virtual disks you should select advanced view and resize volumes if needed. In this example, a physical disk that contains two volumes is converted to a thin provisioned virtual disk. It is recommended that you tick the checkboxes:. You can select the number of virtual processors, processor cores, virtual disk controllers, and memory size. Select networks to which virtual network adapters of the VM must be connected.

On the Source Services tab, you can select which running services on the source Windows machine to stop before starting P2V conversion with VMware Converter. On the Destination Services tab, you can select the startup mode for services on the destination VM.

Advanced options. There are two tabs — Synchronize and Post-conversion. In the Post-conversion tab, you can set the power state for a source machine and destination machine after P2V conversion is finished. The Post-conversion processing options are:. Throttling allows you to perform your usual tasks during the conversion process. Step 6: Summary. Check your settings for the new machine conversion job you created and if everything is correct, click Finish to start conversion in VMware Converter.

After machine conversion is started, wait until the conversion process is fully completed. The time needed for conversion depends on the amount of data stored on the source machine disks and network speed. Now that a Windows machine is converted, power on the destination VM if you have not selected to power on the VM automatically during conversion job creation.

As you recall, in our example we have selected to install VMware Tools on the destination virtual machine automatically. This means that VMware Tools are in the process of being installed. VMware Tools have been installed successfully. It is recommended that you remove all vendor-specific software and drivers used on the physical machine before.

Hence, you can convert a VM, even if a remote physical machine running the hypervisor has Linux or macOS installed as a host operating system. Figure 6. VMware vSAN is optimized for modern All-Flash storage with efficient near-line deduplication, compression, and erasure coding capabilities that lower TCO while delivering incredible performance.

This message will close in seconds. You are about to be redirected to the central VMware login page. Figure 1. Table 1. Table 2. Table 3. Figure 2. Figure 3. Table 4. Table 6. Before this failure validation, we initiated the workload on one database. Scenario 3- Host Shutdown primary node of WSFC : following scenario 2, we shut down the host which hosted the primary node of one cluster after the failure scenario 2, by shutting down the host using iDRAC console of the Dell R server, to emulate the unplanned site A failure.

This scenario should cause VMs restart on another node in different site. The test results were shown in Table 7.

Table 7. Failure of the non-primary node did not cause the workload interruption, and HA restarted the impacted VM on the remaining hosts. Failure of the primary node simulating a site failure scenario causes the restarting of the two VMs on site A they were running on the only host on site A before it was turned off and no cluster service down was monitored, when using disk witness of vSAN stretched cluster as the quorum.

Recommendations Less than four milliseconds inter-site round trip latency is recommended for tier-1 SQL Server databases running on vSAN stretched cluster. Figure 5. Choose Shared Disk for the Cluster. Conclusion VMware vSAN is optimized for modern All-Flash storage with efficient near-line deduplication, compression, and erasure coding capabilities that lower TCO while delivering incredible performance. Modal body text goes here. NVMe: Samsung 2 x 1. Use VMware Converter.

But P2V-ing a cluster like this is tricky. VMware can provide HA if anything happens to the single node. My idea was to break the cluster and get one of the nodes of the cluster to assume the identity of the cluster. Have SQL running off that. Virtualize this single node.

Found a blog post that pretty much does what I had in mind. Nor can we remove the Failover Cluster feature from the node as it is still part of a cluster even though the cluster is shutdown. This simply clears any cluster related configuration from the node. It is meant to be used on evicted nodes.