Building Microsoft failover clustered HyperV LAB at home

Building Microsoft failover clustered HyperV LAB at home
Lab configuration: Part 1

Preparing iSCSI Target: Part 2

Configuring initiators: Part 3

Installing and configuring HyperV: Part 4

Installing Microsoft failover clustering: Part 5

Creating failover clustering: Part 6

Creating New virtual Machine: part 7

Configuring and Testing High Availability of VM: Part 8
Powershell Rocks - Creating virtual Nic cards for testing (Standalone HyperV)
Error resolved: Hyperv cannot be installed: A Hyperviser is already running.
Build your own Microsoft failover clustered HyperV LAB at home.  it is very easy and simple. What you need is good computer and some softwares. I used below laptop and softwares.

Dell N5010 Laptop (Hardware configuration)

• Quad core processor (intel VT support)
• 4 GB RAM
• 300 GB HDD 

Softwares

• VMware workstation 8 trial/Evalution (source: VMware.com)
• Windows 2008 R2 ISO trial/Evalution (source: Microsoft.com)
• Microsoft iSCSI Target 3.3 (source: Microsoft.com) It is free http://blogs.technet.com/b/storageserver/archive/2011/04/27/iscsi-software-target-3-3-is-now-a-free-download.aspx

for HyperV pre-installation setting check my blog Get Hyperv working on vmware workstation

Powershell Rocks - Creating virtual Nic cards for testing (Standalone HyperV)

Below is my infrastructure in the Lab