MPIO disks keep switching back to failover only
The physical server 2008 R2 cluster runs using LUNs set to MPIO as round robin and it keep switching back automatically to failover only. why would this happen ?
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View ArticleWSUS Email Stopped
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View ArticleHyper-V Cluster in VMM
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View ArticleHow to properly configure NLB cluster in Windows 2008
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View ArticleWindows 2008 r2 Cluster not starting - "unable to create security manager...
Hello, following a power outage, we got a serious cluster error preventing the start of the cluster.We are trying to interpret the only four lines the cluster.log generates...
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View ArticleONE NODE PHYSICAL AND ONE NODE VIRTAUL
HIi want to build an sql cluster and share point cluster in one node physical and one node virtual , hyper-v server is windows server 2012 r2 , i can directly assign shared storage from SANplease let...
View Articlehyper v cluster
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View ArticleClustered role 'Cluster Group' has exceeded its failover threshold.
Hello.I’m hoping to get some help with a cluster issue I’m having using Windows Storage Server 2012.When the cluster is created my Cluster Core Resources are all happy and online.I can more the Cluster...
View ArticleCluster Network name resource could not be updated in domain
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Recently one of the SQL 2012 AlwaysOn clusters I manage that runs Windows Server 2008 R2 started experiencing problems with RHS Deadlocks on the File Share Witness resource for the cluster. When this...
View ArticleHyperV Failover Cluster - twice some vms lost network
So i run a 4 node Hyper V Failover Cluster and twice now.... out of months of operations out of the blue on a node a portion of the VMs just lose network access(this has happened on two different...
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