Remote management and SMB share access
I have a 2012 R2 Hyper-V cluster. I have configured an EMC VNX array with SMB 3.0. I configured the shares with full access for each of teh cluster nodes and the cluster name. From a node of the...
View ArticleHow to move cluster Hyper-V computer object to another ou in AD
2 Hyper-V hosts (2012 R2 DC) in Cluster configCluster got created BEFORE Hyper-V hosts AD Computer Objects got moved to a proper desired OUIs there a way to move Hyper-V host AD objects now?Will...
View ArticleWindows 2008 R2 SP1 Exchange DAG event 1196 and 1579 Bad DNS Key
Hi,I'm running an Exchange 2010 SP1 DAG on Windows 2008 R2 SP1. We are using an INFOBLOX appliance for DNS resolution.DNS resolution is working and SRV records are created.On one of the two...
View ArticleValidate cluster fails
HiI installed sql server failover cluster successfully. On installation time when I validate cluster it didn't give me any error that time it was success.Now when I click again on 'validate this...
View ArticleResource specific cluster scheduled task not running
Hi, I've setup a couple of chkdsk cluster scheduled tasks but they're not appearing in the failover cluster section in task scheduler, and not running when the trigger is hit. They were created using...
View ArticleWindows Server 2012 R2 Multi-Node Failover Cluster ( more than 2 nodes)
Hi ,I have set up a 8 Nodes Failover Cluster , and with Quorum Configuration of Node and Disk Majority (recommended for clusters with an even number of nodes)i have 2 question regarding my cluster...
View ArticleConfigure File Share Witness: ... is not a valid share path
I have created with Windows Server 2008 R2 a Two Node Cluster with Node and File Share Majority. The File Share Witness lies on a Domain Controller and the File Share Majority was created with "More...
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 ArticleGeneric Application fail-over is restarting
I have setup a two node cluster on 2012. I am trying to use the generic application to fail fail over and to pick up where it left off i.e. Move what is in memory to the fail over server. I can not get...
View ArticleNode in Cluster drops NIC connection. Troubleshooting steps?
Hey all, Having a Node that occasionally has its NIC disconnect on us (about once a month). We get nothing but the Event ID 1127 stating that the network interface fails. Its a NIC team and I've...
View ArticleFailover relations in DHCP Windows server 2012 R2
HiI have deployment of 7 DHCP servers( Say Server A,B,C,D,E,F,G) with about 500 Scopes( 500 Vlans) in each server. Now Each server( A,B,C,D,E,F) is forming a Hot S/BY failover relation with SERVER G.So...
View ArticleCluster object name DNS error
I have a 2 node cluster that is producing the following 1196 errors in the event log of each node.Microsoft-Windows-FailoverClustering: -Cluster network name resource 'CAUMADCLGE54RB8' failed...
View ArticleGeneral File server- 2012 Server Cluster- Split load
Hello,New to clustering. I have a 2 node server cluster built with general file server role. I have two LUNs assigned, plus a 3rd one for witness disk. I would like to mount data LUNA on Node A and...
View ArticleDoes Microsoft iSCSI Software Target VHD(virtual disk) support the SCSI...
Hi,Could I send SCSI commands by pass-through the iSCSI Software Target VHD?Our backup software need to gather the mapped disk information from RAID.
View ArticleQuestion on windows cluster
Hi Experts, I am new clusters. But I have to support win 2003 clusters in my environment. I know it is deprecated but asking as we are still supporting win 2003 cluster environments. Assume I have 2003...
View ArticleNodes part of a cluster (Failover Cluster Manager) producing errors overnight...
HiWe have 2 Cisco UCS boxes with a number of blades running windows server 2008 sp2. On these servers we have set up two separate windows clusters using Failover Cluster Manager - one with 2 nodes and...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s recommendation/best practices for a High Availability Print...
Need some guidance with Microsoft’s recommendation/best practices as far as a High Availability Print Server Solution. I need to know what Microsoft recommends as far as both from a Virtual and...
View ArticleMSCS cluster question - SQL server 2012 cluster
When configuring the nodes for MSCS h/w configuration, apart from the components being identical - is there any norm that all nodes should be of the same size (RAM size, #CPUs, #HBAs, etc)? I read...
View ArticleWhat is the value of the 'Name' attribute of an Instance of Resource Type...
See subject. I'm writing a Powershell script which is supposed to return the configured hostname and IP Address for a service associated with a role on a failover cluster. I'm using, e.g.. the...
View ArticleFailover Cluster Hyper-V Storage Choice
I am trying to deploy a 2 nodes Hyper-V Failover cluster in a closed environment. My current setup is 2 servers as hypervisors and 1 server as AD DC + Storage server. All 3 are running Windows Server...
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