Before I get too deep into my question, I want to say upfront that I have very little knowledge of Hyper-V, having started working with it in the last year at a new job.
That said, on to the festivities...
My company moved into a new office and as part of the move bought two Dell R540 servers and an ScV 3020 storage system. Both servers are running Windows Server 2019 Datacenter with the Hyper-V role and are connected to the ScV 3020.
Unfortunately, when the hosts were initially configured, they were not set up in a cluster. Both servers are running as standalone Windows/Hyper-V hosts and both are able to see storage on the ScV. The ScV management UI let me create a cluster within the SAN and add both hosts to it. And I believe if I create a SAN volume and send it to the cluster, both hosts would be able to see it.
One potentially complicating factor is how we allocate disks to the hosts. Our current approach involves creating a separate SAN volume for each guest VM so that the configuration and VHDX is stored on a dedicated drive letter for each guest. Poking around for research I saw the term CSV (cluster shared volume) pop up which suggests we'd have to change our disk methodology for clustered workloads. So we'd have to create a SAN volume that's visible to both hosts and use that for any guests we want clustered. Presumably we could have guests that are not clustered as well.
Given this small bit of information, is it possible to "convert" these two hosts into a cluster without having to rebuild them from the ground up? I'm sure convert isn't the proper term, but it's the first one I thought of.
I'm not necessarily looking for a detailed walkthrough, although I wouldn't say refuse one, but I know I haven't provided a lot of information here. My main concern is having to start over to set up a cluster and I'm hoping to avoid that.
Any assistance or ideas would be appreciated!
