After the whole MSCS’ed vCenter support discussion VMware Technical Marketing reached out to me. Lets be clear, the intention of this article is not to change support. The intention of this article is to get an idea of how many of you would be interested in seeing a whitepaper on vCenter resiliency with MSCS/VCS which could be supported on best [...]

We(VMware PSO) had a discussion yesterday on the fact whether it’s supported to have MSCS(Microsoft Clustering Services) VM’s in a HA/DRS cluster with both HA and DRS set to disable. I know many people struggle with this because it doesn’t make sense in a way. In short: No, this is not supported. MSCS VM’s can’t be part of a VMware [...]

When reading several SRM docs I was wondering if Microsoft Clustering was supported or not. I knew that in version 1.0 it wasn’t supported. When reading the Release Notes I noticed the following: Full Support for RDM devices SRM now provides full support for virtual machines that use raw disk mapping (RDM) devices. This enables support of several new configurations, [...]