Extending Physical Cluster into Virtual Cluster

Hello All...........I have a Physical SQL Cluster cluster.domain.com (Physical_NodeA and
Physical_NodeB) using SAN A. Physical SQL Cluster contains
three-3 instances. I intend to move this cluster into my Hyper-V Failover Cluster enviornment and I want to get rid of both Physical nodes (Physical_NodeA and
Physical_NodeB) along with shared storage on SAN A. I have devised following approach:
- Extend existing Physical Cluster cluster.domain.com on
(Physical_NodeA and Physical_NobeB) with shared storage
SAN A
- By adding Virtual Nodes (Virtual_NodeC and
Virtual_NodeD) to cluster.domain.com
- Creating LUN/s that are shared by all four nodes (Physical_NodeA, Physical_NodeB, Virtual_NodeC and Virtual NodeD) on
SAN B
- Moving Instances/Databases location to new LUN/s on
SAN B
- Failover to new Virtual Nodes either Virtual_NodeC or
Virtual_NodeD
- Evict Physical_NodeA and Physical_NodeB
- Remove Physical_NodeA and Physical_NodeB from Host Group at
SAN A
- Remove LUN/s from SAN A.
Your thought on above procedure would be appreciated.

I am not sure why you want to do all of these.
Why cant you just get the new virtual environment up and running with SQL Server and just migrate the databases to the new cluster?
I think the amount of downtime you incur would be less in this approach.
Regards, Ashwin Menon My Blog - http:\\sqllearnings.com

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