Howdy,
We have a 3 node Hyper-V cluster with a bunch of VMs on it. None of the VMs are setup with Preferred Hosts and the Failback setting is set to Prevent Failback. Both of these are set just because that's how they come by default and we've never changed them.
When we do patching every month, whichever host patches last ends up empty since the VMs get migrated to the other ones. We're looking for the best way set things the way we want them and then have them go back to that same state when the patching is done.
We currently use Cluster Aware Updating that we kick off manually from a separate machine so we can watch it go in case something goes wrong. When we're done, we end up with machines all over the place but the last node end sup mostly empty.
What is the best way that we can either set specific machines to always go back to specific hosts or have something do some resource balancing after patching to spread things out or anything like that?
Thanks!