Hi all
I am in the process of setting up a failover cluster with hyper-v and am just sorting out the required networks.
For storage we are using iSCSI so they are 2 x 10Gbps connections not teamed etc.
For the other networks I have a team and the recommendation is to use -
1) management network
2) Live migration network
3) CSV/Heartbeat network **
I have read that actually there is no such thing as a specific heartbeat network and the heartbeat can actually run across all the vlans/networks.
The question I have is around 3). The Management network will be cluster and client, the Live Migration will be cluster only and you can tell FCM which specific network to use for Live Migration.
What I can't work out is how does FCM know to use the CSV network for CSV traffic ? This network will be marked as cluster only, so does it use it because -
the management is cluster and client so it ignores that
the storage are cluster only but they are storage specific
the Live migration has been specifically marked for that purpose
so the only cluster only network left is 3) the CSV/Heartbeat network.
Put simply how can you know that the CSV/Heartbeat network is actually being used.
Jon