In an ideal world we’d be using SoFS. But, as we have already thrown investment into NetApp, then we are going to use it – or – be thrown out the door.
There are many good articles about shared nothing migration, migrating from host to host – but not many cover those of us living with multiple clusters, or using other SMB providers.
Leading you here may be SCVMM error codes:
Error 12700 – 0x80072746, 0x80070005 – forcibly closed by the remote host, or General access denied error for your Run_As account to the SMB file path.
Our Example setup is this:
HyperVCluster1 – DomainA, multi node, storage is on SMB served up by a NetApp SVM dedicated for Hyper-V workloads.
HyperVCluster2 – DomainA, multi node, same storage access as cluster 1.
So – we already have the same file shares, assigned in SCVMM to both clusters, servers have all the access they require, as does the VMM run_as account that the clusters are using for file operations.
If you are reading this, then you already have looked at Kerberos delegation, started assigning every node CIFS & Microsoft virtual system migration service delegations to every other node – STOP NOW!
In SCVMM – make sure every cluster node is set to ‘Use Kerberos’ This prevents the tedious requirement of setting a web of host to host delegations.
Set this using the VMM PowerShell by running:
Once done, set up a Kerberos delegation to the AD object name of your NetApp SVM SMB server.
Example file share: \\NetappSMB3\Tier1_01
Add a Kerberos delegation for CIFS (ugh – why does this term still linger everywhere) for DomainA\NetappSMB3 on all your hyper V cluster nodes that have access to SMB.
You can use the SCVMM & AD PowerShell modules to set this quickly using:
As soon as this is in place, you will be free to live migrate running VMs between clusters that have access to the same file system.
