General questions on how to plan highly available environment in small...
Preface: Questions are in the text and marked bold.I read a lot about Hyper-V clustering, but never have I seen practical tips or best practices when it comes to building a highly available environment...
View ArticleClustered Tiered Storage Space - no optimization report
I have a clustered SOFS Server and I am currently using CSV's for Hyper-V. I have enabled the optimization task and added the report per https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn789160.aspx. The...
View ArticleEvent 1146 - Call ISALIVE timed out for resource 'SQL'
Hello guys!In a Windows Server 2008 R2 environment with SQL Server 2005 the Cluster service fails after a healthcheck timeout. There is no latency or path lose at 'SQL' resource (LUN), all logs have...
View ArticleOn the same cluster network, yet address 10.67.13.31 is not reachable from...
Hello,This is the 2nd time this damn issue show up, first time i was forced to evict four out of five nodes and restart them all to fix this issue. and join them again to the cluster >> this...
View ArticleHaving multiple CAs share the same private key
We are developing a system which implements an HA cluster across two separate geographical locations. Each site will have several Windows Server 2012 machines and at least one DC, and we basically have...
View ArticleOverlapping Cluster Disk Numbers on Windows 2012 R2 Cluster
I have a windows 2012 R2 Cluster that is showing overlapping Cluster Disk numbers in the disk view. It doesn't seem to affectany cluster behavior. Just wondering why this would happen and if it is a...
View ArticleClustered Storage Spaces and Exchange DAG Without a Cluster Administrative...
Hi I have a two questions about that error that I'm getting in Storage poll interface. I have exchange DAG cluster without a Cluster Administrative Access Point configured and when I open storage poll...
View ArticleLive Migration queued
Hi,I have a VM that I tried to migrate between two hyper-v cluster nodes.The virtual machine didn't migrate and the status is Migration Queued. I tried to cancel the live migration but I got the...
View ArticleHP StoreVirtual Storage | Lefthand OS 12.0 + Server 2012 R2 + Failover...
Hi Everyone,Here's some background:We have 2x HP BL460c G7 blades in a C3000 Chassis, attached via 2x VirtualConnect modules to 6x HP P4500 G2 LeftHands, via iSCSI. There's a AD 2012 R2 Directory...
View ArticleWindows server 2012 hangs when accessing a Cluster Shared Volume
Hi,We have 2 windows server 2012 Datacenter member of windows cluster, servers are running hyper-v. the 2 nodes hang once we try to access CSV volume (c:\clusterstorage\volume1) when i tried to do live...
View Article(resource type '', DLL 'vmclusres.dll') either crashed or deadlocked.
HiFor the past few weeks we have been experiencing a strange issue with our failover cluster.We currently have the following:7 Nodes : Windows HyperV 2008 R2 Core ServersSAM driven with 2 controllers,...
View ArticleCreate Windows 2012 R2 Cluster Fails: Error There are currently no logon...
When creating a new WFC the cluster fails to create. and the following message appears in the Create Cluster Report.Checking for account information for the computer object in the 'UserAccountControl'...
View ArticleEvent ID 1230: (resource type '', DLL 'clusres.dll') either crashed or...
Hi, Our cluster just crashed with following error: Event ID 1230 Cluster resource 'FileServer-(server1)(Data)' (resource type '', DLL 'clusres.dll') either crashed or deadlocked. The Resource Hosting...
View ArticleCan I Use the Existing Cluster Shared Volumes With Newly Setup Failover Cluster
Good morning,I am setting up a new Hyper-V failover cluster with Windows Server 2012 R2. The new node has already been setup with a Hyper-V Witness disk (2GB in size).The LUNs are on our Dell...
View ArticleCluster not work !
Hi all,I created cluster with 2 nodes (Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard)- Node 1: 2 x CPU E5-2630 2.3 GHz- Node 2: 1 x CPU E5-2620 2.0 GHz- CSV storage on IBM v3700 by iSCSI2 nodes update all hot fix...
View ArticleFailover Cluster: CSV Network Migration
Our main VM CSV is connected to our iSCSI on the wrong network. We have three Cluster networks:5.x - iscsi40.x - cluster network / live migration50.x - client vm networkFor some reason the ISCSI is...
View ArticleCluster sensitivity to planned outages
In the case of a virtualized Microsoft cluster using a converged infrastructure (Cisco UCS with network and storage over the network), is there a way to tweak the cluster services to be a bit more...
View ArticleCSV unavailable to one node, VMs don't failover
Hi All,I had this situation:Environment:- 2 nodes Hyper-v cluster- 2 CSV- NODE1 is running 2 VMs on CSV1 and 2 VMs on CSV2Issue:- NODE1 loses connection to CSV1- NODE1 logs Evnet ID 4096 at 00:01 in...
View ArticleStretched General File Server FoC Questions
Hi all,We are currently in the process of building a multi-site (stretched?) failover cluster for our general purpose file server. We will be moving away from a NAS appliance which has been causing us...
View ArticleCluster Heartbeat is using the wrong network
Hi there.I have a very strange phenomena at one of my customers and can't really understand why this happened.This is a a Windows 2008 R2 two node cluster (actually patched)We have a Public network, a...
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