Deploying Existing Virtual Machines on Failover Clusters
If the storage provisioned as a shared storage in the cluster contains existing virtual machine images, these can be made highly available. You can also copy any virtual hard disk to the shared storage volume and make it highly available, as follows:
1. On one of the cluster nodes, open Failover Cluster Manager.
2. Expand the cluster and select Roles.
3. Right-click Roles and select Configure Role. This opens the High Availability Wizard.
4. Click Next on the Before You Begin page.
5. On the Select Role page, click Virtual Machine and click Next.
6. Select the virtual machines to be made highly available, as shown in Figure 36.13, and click Next.
Figure 36.13. Selecting the virtual machine ...
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