Change Cluster Quorum Disk, online, while 1 Host already crashed
Hello,Orginally, old 3rd party integrators had configured a Windows 2008 Failover Cluster, containing 1 SAN (HP MSA2000) connected with SAS to 2x HP Proliant Servers.After this, the first Proliant...
View ArticlePartition offline
After creating a WSCF ( file share witness as a quorum configuration) on Windows Server 2012R2 in order to create an AlwaysOn Availability Group we end up with a partition offline.We have a VM with two...
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Cluster-Aware Updating configuration failed
Hi All,I'm trying to configure Cluster-Aware Updating for my Windows 2012 Hyper cluster.I have a separate management server (also Windows 2012).First I created a prestage computer account. I changed...
View ArticleVM goes into "running-critical" state after failover
Hi,i have recently implemented a VM failover solution on a vm which already been running.one server is already running and added another server for failover. so we introduced a new server same specs...
View ArticleIs clustering required on Hyper-V host if only planning to cluster virtual...
Hi...My basic question is this... given that the only servers that I plan on giving access to a shared storage device are virtual servers, do I need to implement a cluster at the physical server...
View ArticleCluster Resource Degraded 1167
I have a Windows 2008 R2 cluster nodes running on HP Proliant DL380 G8's. I'm getting intermittent system event 1167 one of the cluster resources is in a degraded state. Source is Foundation Agent....
View ArticleInstance Creation on Secondary Site with Mirroring as DR Mechanism
Hello all..........I am trying to create a multi-site failover cluster (Sql Server 2012). Due to some support issues, I am unable to use AOAG, so I have decided to use Mirroring among two-2 locations...
View ArticleFailover Clustering - EventID 2049
Hello, I've got a four node hyper-v 2012r2 cluster using a CIFS share to store all of the virtual machines. It's working all right but I do see thousands of similar log entries in the...
View ArticleLooksAlive and IsAlive checks on resource type "File Share Witness"
Hi,I am unable to find this documented anywhere or confirmed. Can anyone tell me if the IsAlive and looksAlive checks for the resource type "File Share Witness" is the same as it is for "File server"...
View ArticleEntries in clustering log for DFSR checkpoints
Hi,I am looking through our cluster logs trying to rule out errors and I notice a repeat instance of this error for all of the cluster disks every 5 minutes:ERR [RHS] Error 161 from ResourceControl...
View Articleredirected access for this Cluster shared volume on or off?
Hi.What does this do and does it need to be on or off?Thanks
View ArticleNLB not working in multicast mode in VMs running on Hyper-V2012 but unicast
I have two VMs on Hyper-V2012 running windows server 2012 R2, add NLB adapter for both VMs and enable Mac address spoofing, create NLB cluster with mode multicast, failed to ping from other VLAN. After...
View ArticleBITLOCKER CSV Server 2012 Issues Encrypting - Please help
So I've been following blogs and posts about how to Bitlocker CSVs on Server 2012. I did this once about 6 months ago and am following the same instructions but keeps failing now. And we have existing...
View ArticleHow to identify a cluster fail over?
Hello,I am looking for event IDs which show that a cluster failed over. Which log? Application, System, Cluster, Others?What initiated the fail over?When the fail over happened?etc...Thanks,DOmSystem...
View ArticlePowerShell Get-Cluster Remote API Error
I am running a powershell script to get cluster information. The script works perfectly sometimes but sometimes fails on the get-cluster -domain command. It will fail and then maybe a half hour later...
View ArticleHyper-V 2012 r2 Clustering issue
Hi AllWe have the following issue and I just thought of why this could be happeningWe are using a 3 node cluster with a witness diskThe problem is that the nodes in the cluster fail daily and its not a...
View ArticleProblem with VM which was remove from cluster and added again
HiVM with name wxp-vm1 was remove from cluster. So it was simply vm on cluster node CN1 I added this VM again to cluster but it's name in MMC Failover Cluster Manager is CN1 not wxp-vm1.When i run...
View ArticleBackup File Server Cluster
I have a windows 2008 file server cluster. We have an issue with our backups in backupexec where the jobs were decreasing performance on our network. We have our backup server configured for a new...
View ArticleCluster-aware updating - Self updating not working
Hi,I have a Windows Server 2012 failover cluster with 2 nodes, and I am having problems gettign the Self updating to work properly.The Analyze CAU Readiness does not report any issues, and I have been...
View ArticleCSVs Logs details in Failover Cluster
Hello,We have a 8-nodes (let’s say Node1, Node2,… Node8) Failover Cluster of Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V hosts. 4 CSVs are attached to this cluster.Assume that the Node1 is the current Owner Node of...
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