My Job; Cluster 2 VM’s using Microsoft NLB, a simple 2 minute job right? Wrong!
Why? Because my 2nd VM was a clone of the 1st.
Once I had my newly created VM’s configured I proceeded to fire up the NLB Manager tool and began to create my new cluster. Cluster configured…first VM added to the cluster, no problems.
Then I tried to add the 2nd VM… I was confronted with this Error:
“No interfaces are available for installing a new cluster”
Great there goes my lunch break!
After a little Googling I come across this MS Support article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/828258
Because I had cloned the 2nd VM this meant that the Network Adapters on both VM’s had identical GUID’s in the registry and apparently NLB isn’t a fan of matching GUID’s.
There are two ways I found to fix this;
Solution 1
You should now be able to add both VM’s to the NLB Cluster.
Solution 2
You should now be able to add both VM’s to the NLB Cluster.
Now that I was able to add the VM into the cluster I did receive the following errors;
· Could not read configuration of interface “{DF52417D-E337-4543-A223-8D17514E02BC}”: error 0x800706ba
· Update 2 failed with error 0x800706ba
Ignore it the VM still seems to converge fine into the cluster.
This post was originally and still is posted on Alan Renouf’s Blog. I would just like to thank Alan for allowing me to guest post on his great Virtualisation\Powershell Blog.
Update: Whilst reading Ken Cline’s great set of articles titled The Great vSwitch Debate Ken bought some extra information to my attention for creating a NLB Cluster using VM’s, so i thought i would share it with you.
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Great article, many thanks