Why continue to choose disk witness when file share witness is better
Hi,I have made a lot of tests last 3 weeks and my conclusion is : File share witness is the best option. And this is why :I have 2 nodes clusters running on physical blades in 2 different chassis. -...
View ArticleWindows Clustered Shared Volume IOPS
Quick question. I'm reviewing the IOPS for my CSV, and im confused about the Cluster CSVFS\Reads/sec counter. I aligned "Physical Disk\Disk Reads/sec" (for the CSV disk) with "Cluster CSV File...
View ArticleWindows 2016 Hyper-V Cluster Licensing of VMs Hosted on it
Hello Expers,We have four Node Windows 2016 Data Center 2016 Hyper-V Cluster and activated with Datacenter Product key.I have question about Licensing about VMs hosted on this Cluster.We have different...
View ArticleServer 2016 with two nodes + failover cluster manager
Hi All,Hoping someone can assist. We've got two physical servers running 2016 running running a failover cluster manager environment. Each server has the following hard disks installed.6 x 600GB 15k...
View Article[Announcement] “High Availability (Clustering)” Forum will be migrating to a...
This “High Availability (Clustering)” Forum will be migrating to a new home on Microsoft Q&A! We’ve listened to your feedback on how we can enhance the forum experience. Microsoft Q&A allows us...
View ArticleShared Volume Failed - IO Abort 2012r2 - Help :)
So, needed to reboot a cluster yesterday and drained roles from one server, rebooted, moved roles over and rebooted other. However, now one of the CSV is showing as failed. It is not ReadOnly, I have...
View ArticleWindows 2012 R2 Hyper-V Cluster NIC Teaming Qlogic 10GB NIC Virtual switch BSOD
We are using 3x DL380 G7 with Windows 2012 R2 Hyper-V Cluster. In order to get more performance out of it we added 2 HPE NC523sfp 2P 10GB NICS per host. The ISCSI traffic worked as a charm. So we had a...
View ArticleMSDTC failover cluster configuration in windows 2012r2
MSDTC failover cluster configuration in windows 2012r2Team, Could you please help me to setup MSDTC configuration in Cluster...because in Azure which storage we will use to have high availability for...
View ArticleHyper-V Cluster CSV low performance
Hello, I have hyper-v cluster with two nodes connected to iSCSI array(12 SSDs RAID 10) via 4x SFP+ NICs each node. There is 2x Netgear M4300 12x12f switchs between nodes and array. Before create CSV...
View Articlenetft.sys is the cause for the bugchk blue screen on the server Windows 2008...
Hiwe have the server geting rebooted by a bugchk error for netft.sysPlease let me know if we have any fix for this issue. i am not sure wht is causing the issue on the serverthe server is windows 2008...
View Article2019 cluster: live migration only works on Linux VMs, not Windows
This is a fairly simple question, and I'm hoping the answer is fairly simple too.I have a straightforward 3-node failover cluster: the servers are running WS2019, and the 30+ VMs are running a mixture...
View ArticleHigh availability domain controllers - noob questions about possible problems.
Just yesterday I was "awarded" with a honor to completely reconfigure domain controllers in my medium size organization. One of the main concerns is to provide some high availability features. I even...
View ArticleWays to seamlessly migrate an existing DC (windows server 2012) to a new...
I have an existing domain - but I was given a task to reconfigure a new one. I have zero experience in this field some maybe some/all of my questions may sound stupid for you guru. 1) How do I create...
View ArticleFailover cluster what does it exactly do? What software can be used with it?...
I have started to read articles and watch videos about fail-over cluster and clustering in general. I already know that there are several models to configure it (6?). But I couldn't get what software...
View ArticleFailed Cluster Shared Volume accessible on one host
So, needed to reboot a cluster yesterday and drained roles from one server, rebooted, server 2012r2 moved roles over and rebooted other. However, now one of the CSV is showing as failed. It is not...
View ArticleError when Validatin Cluster Cluster creation tool Validate the cluster Error...
Hi,I get this error at validating the cluster when using the cluster Creation tool. Error:"Error Test report isn't available, try to validate again." Notification Pannel shows "Successfully validated...
View ArticleWinServer2019 RDS Cluster Setup
We currently have a pair of Windows Server 2016 servers in a cluster and are looking to set up a new pair of servers with Windows Server 2019. Once the 2019 servers are setup in high availability...
View ArticleCluster Storage
Hi All,i need to remove VHD attached to VM and add back to cluster storage, if i just delete this VHD it will be back to storage automatically ?
View ArticleCluster resource 'Cluster Disk 2' of type 'Physical Disk' in clustered role...
I have a constant error in Hyper-V Failover Cluster:Cluster resource 'Cluster Disk 2' of type 'Physical Disk' in clustered role 'Cluster Group' failed.Based on the failure policies for the resource and...
View ArticleV2V Fileserver Cluster
Hi,We have a windows cluster (W2K12R2) that I need to move with V2V.The 2 nodes currently reside on Hyper-V with 2 disks (data & quorum) through ISCSI.Due to storage issues we have a new VMware...
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