C.1 What You’ll Do

You will perform the following tasks to prepare, configure, execute, and verify the semi-automated migration of the Windows Server Failover Cluster to VMware VMs with RDM disks:

1. In the FC SAN environment, create logical disks (LUNs) that will be used for the shared quorum and data RDM disks.

2. In vSphere, prepare the target VMware environment:

   1. Create an internal virtual switch and port group for the private heartbeat network.

   2. Create two target VMs on different hosts in a VMware Cluster. (That is, create VM1 on Host1 and VM2 on Host2.)

   3. Create two NICs on each VM and configure them to use the data network (NIC1) and heartbeat network (NIC2).

   4. Create a dedicated SCSI controller and the RDM disks (mapped to the SAN LUNs) on each target VM for the quorum disks and shared disks in the physical Windows cluster.

3. In PlateSpin Migrate Client, migrate source nodes to the target VMs:

   1. Discover the source Windows cluster nodes.

   2. Register the target VMs with the PlateSpin Migrate server.

   3. Migrate the source Active node to the first target VM (VM1 on Host1).

   4. Migrate the source Passive node to the second target VM (VM2 on Host2).

4. After the migration is complete, verify the Windows cluster configuration.

5. For problems, consult the troubleshooting and known issues.