Hi, You cluster the Vmware not the guest operating system. So, if you have the available licenses, you would configure Vmware to put the virtual machines on the Iscsi array, then using the ESX server manager set up the Vmware cluster/Vmotion so that if one of the machines dies in the cluster, it will come up on the other ESX box. Andrew. -----Original Message----- From: blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of John G. Heim Sent: 13 October 2008 22:39 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] vmware overview My department bought 2 Sun servers and an ISCSI array. We've installed esx on both machines nad set up a 3rd machine as a vmwarevirtual center server. What next? My opinion is that we would want to set up a cluster and install Solaris on the cluster. But my co-worker has already installed solaris as a virtual machine on one of the Sun servers. Doesn't that mean we have lost the flexability we'd get from having a cluster? _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins