VMWare Workstation 6.5 Clustering Config

Here is my customized lines added to the .vmx file that enables two SCSI disks for use in VM Workstation 6.5 for use in clustering. I used this custom configuration to setup 2 disks for use in two VMs for testing clustering in Windows 2003 Server. Here are the added lines...

scsi1.present = "TRUE"
scsi1.virtualDev="lsilogic"

scsi1:1.present = "TRUE"
scsi1:1.fileName = "M:\vmachines\clusterdisk\clusterdisk1.vmdk"
scsi1:1.mode = "independent-persistent"
scsi1:1.shared="TRUE"
scsi1:1.redo = ""

scsi1:2.present = "TRUE"
scsi1:2.fileName = "M:\vmachines\clusterdisk\quorumdisk.vmdk"
scsi1:2.mode = "independent-persistent"
scsi1:2.shared="TRUE"
scsi1:2.redo = ""

disk.locking = "false"
diskLib.dataCacheMaxSize = "0"
diskLib.dataCacheMaxReadAheadSize = "0"
diskLib.dataCacheMinReadAheadSize = "0"
diskLib.dataCachePageSize ="4096"
diskLib.maxUnsyncedWrites = "0"

I relied heavily on the following blogs to assemble this code:

• http://techrepublic.com.com/5208-6230-0.html?forumID=102&threadID=220875&start=0

• http://blog.baeke.info/blog/_archives/2005/5/5/654247.html

• http://crosbysite.blogspot.com/2007/10/clustering-in-vmware-workstation-6.html

• http://cs.thefoleyhouse.co.uk/blogs/karl/archive/2005/04/27/447.aspx

• http://invurted.com/2008/05/vmware-and-windows-2003-clustering-post-version-4/

• http://blog.randyjcress.com/2008/09/esxclustervmwareworkstation65beta.html