Step-By-Step Guide: Configuring Hyper-V and Failover Clustering for Windows Server 2008 R2 on the HP ProLiant DL980, rev 1

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The storage location appears as
SystemDrive\ClusterStorage on all nodes of the failover cluster.
Under
SystemDrive\ClusterStorage, a specific folder appears for each volume on the disk (or disks)
that was added to the Cluster Shared Volumes. You can view the list of volumes in Failover Cluster
Manager.
Step 6C: To manage the network used for cluster shared volumes:
Failover clusters include a setting to prioritize the networks used for communication between the nodes in
the cluster and for the network used for Cluster Shared Volume (CSV) traffic. You can identify the network
used for CSV traffic and change the settings of the network using the Windows PowerShell cmdlet, Get-
ClusterNetwork.
Each network in a cluster has two settings for network prioritization – Metric and AutoMetric. The
Metric setting is used to determine the priority of the network (the network with the lowest value is the most
preferred for CSV). The AutoMetric setting identifies whether the Metric setting was set manually or
automatically by the failover cluster. For private networks, the Metric settings are between 1000 and
10,000, and for public networks, the Metric settings start at 10,000.
The following will describe how to properly configure the cluster networks so redirected I/O goes through
a dedicated network for CSV traffic and not over a normal client access or the cluster heartbeat network.
1. Open PowerShell. Click Start, point to All Programs, locate Windows Powershell 2.0,
and then click Windows Powershell 2.0.
The Failover Clustering feature must be installed on the computer on which you are starting the
PowerShell session. Or, you can use Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows® 7 to run
the PowerShell session.
2. To install the Failover Cluster feature, type:
Import-Module FailoverClusters
3. To identify the networks of a failover cluster and the properties of each network, type:
Get-ClusterNetwork | FT Name, Metric, Role
A list of cluster networks and their properties appears.