Hello All,
Currently we will be attempting to migrate a SQL cluster of (2 systems) into are virtual enviroment. We have been tracking the system requirements with Vmware Consolidation Tool and IO Meter to make sure our hosts have enough resources to accomidate this. All the metrics coming back looks like it will run just fine virtulized as the cluster was just for failover purposes anyhow and not for performance purproses. With that said a few questions have come up.
1.) What is the best way to virtulize this or to convert it (P2V)
- Should we just create a new Virtual Machine and install the same version of SQL and do a manual migration to the new SQL server and leave it as 1 SQL server with HA
- Or is there a way to P2V this kind of a setup ? if so what are the steps involved?
2.) If a P2V is possible I was under the impression that you will have to use a RAW mapping for the hard disks otherwise the cluster will not work ? Can anyone speak to this? as I'm pretty sure I have clustered windows server 2008 without RAW mapping before but not with SQL