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VMware GSX Server Administration Guide
Creating the First Node’s Base Virtual Machine
The following steps describe how to create the base virtual machine that serves as the
first node in the cluster (and as a template for the additional node), and how to create
the two preallocated virtual disks that are shared among the virtual machines in the
cluster.
Note: The virtual disks used to store the operating system and clustering software for
each virtual machine (node) in the cluster do not have to be preallocated virtual disks.
1. Log on to your GSX Server host as the user who will own the virtual machine.
2. Launch a VMware Virtual Machine Console and create a new virtual machine (for
information on creating a new virtual machine, see Creating a New Virtual
Machine in the VMware GSX Server Virtual Machine Guide). Follow the Custom
path. Choose the settings you want (for example, the size of the virtual disk or
the amount of memory), but make sure you specify
• Windows 2000 Advanced Server or Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition as
the guest operating system.
• SQL1 as the virtual machine name.
• The virtual machine directory as d:\cluster\SQL1 (on a Windows host)
or /home/cluster/SQL1 (on a Linux host).
• Bridged networking for the virtual machine.
• SQL1 as the disk filename.
3. Open the virtual machine settings editor. Choose VM > Settings.
4. Add a new network adapter that uses either another external adapter or the
VMnet1 host-only adapter. (For complete isolation from the host, you may also
use any unused virtual Ethernet switch, typically VMnet2 through VMnet7.) For
information, see
Adding and Modifying Virtual Network Adapters in the VMware
GSX Server Virtual Machine Guide.
This adapter is used as the virtual private Ethernet connection for heartbeat
monitoring.
5. Add the two virtual disks that are to be shared:
• A shared data disk (call it data.vmdk, for example)
• A shared quorum disk (call it quorum.vmdk, for example) to store
transactions before they are committed to the data disk
For information, see Adding Virtual Disks to a Virtual Machine in the VMware GSX
Server Virtual Machine Guide.