>
> If I use the images I created in VPC onto Virtual Server (VS)...can I still
> utilize clustering with these images or do they have to be originally built
> from VS?
>

> If I use the images I created in VPC onto Virtual Server (VS)...can I
> still utilize clustering with these images or do they have to be
> originally built from VS?
>

> You'll be able to cluster fine once you tell VS to use the hard drive images
>

> In article <e$(email address - cut out)>, in the
> microsoft.public.virtualpc news group, Jonathan Maltz [MS-MVP]
> <(email address - cut out)> says...
>
>> You'll be able to cluster fine once you tell VS to use the hard drive
>> images
>>
>
> Not with the drives built on VPC you won't as they will be using IDE
> controllers.
>
> --
> Paul Adare
> "On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament],
> "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures,
> will the right answers come out?" I am not able to rightly apprehend
> the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
> -- Charles Babbage (1791-1871)

>I assumed the OP knew that
>
> It's a Windows rule that you can't go from IDE to even a different IDE
> controller (let alone SCSI) without installing drivers first - not a
> Virtual PC/Server one.
>
> --
> --Jonathan Maltz [Microsoft MVP - Windows Server - IIS, Virtual PC]
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> tutorial site :-)
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> emails I have not authorized are deleted before I see them.
>
>
> "Paul Adare" <(email address - cut out)> wrote in message
> news:(email address - cut out)...
>> In article <e$(email address - cut out)>, in the
>> microsoft.public.virtualpc news group, Jonathan Maltz [MS-MVP]
>> <(email address - cut out)> says...
>>
>>> You'll be able to cluster fine once you tell VS to use the hard drive
>>> images
>>>
>>
>> Not with the drives built on VPC you won't as they will be using IDE
>> controllers.
>>
>> --
>> Paul Adare
>> "On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament],
>> "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures,
>> will the right answers come out?" I am not able to rightly apprehend
>> the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
>> -- Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
>
>

> How do you do this? I know IDE can not be used - bit in VS...how do I
> convert or use it?
>

> "-->AP<--" <(email address - cut out)> wrote in message
> news:(email address - cut out)...
>> How do you do this? I know IDE can not be used - bit in VS...how do I
>> convert or use it?
>>
> If you are looking at a two node virtual cluster, then the drives that
> have to be on SCSI are the quorum disk and any shared data drives. The
> system drives for each cluster node can be IDE. I have a virtual cluster
> set up with one IDE controller and two SCSI controllers. The C: drive is
> on IDE for each node, Q: quorum disk on first SCSI controller, D: shared
> data disk (i.e. SQL data and log directory) on the second SCSI controller.
> I use the loopback for the internal heartbeat communications between
> nodes, and the host NIC for the external network.
>
> The trick is to use two SCSI controllers with Virtual Server since it only
> allows one shared drive per adapter. Both shared SCSI drives are set up
> as cluster resources.
> Jack Peacock
>