Simple question:
How similar does the hardware have to be on the host servers in a Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V failover cluster?
We have 6 dell servers that we are hoping to use for building a Windows 2012 Hyper-V cluster.
As I recall from our existing 2-host Hyper-V cluster, which is running on 2008 R2, there are fairly harsh demands in the cluster validation wizard with regard to similarity of hardware. So I am wondering if it will work?
The servers in question are 3 x R620, 2 x T410 and 1 x T610 Dell servers. So 3 x 12th generation servers and 3 x 11th generation servers
The servers all use Intel CPUs:
R620: Xeon E5-2670/2680
T410/610: Xeon X5650
and broadcom NICs:
T610: Broadcom 5709c
2 x T410: Broadcom 5716c
3 x R620: Broadcom 5720
Windows 2012 is supported by Dell on all the servers.
Shared storage will be on an SMB3 file share.