Nodes randomly losing communication with cluster
We have a 6 node production cluster. We are on Windows Server 2008 R2 and SQL Server 2008 R2. At any time, a node will loss communication with the cluster causing every instance on that node to...
View ArticleContinuously available storage for hyper-v
Please excuse any inaccuracies with my understandings as I still have limited Windows Server 2012 experience and no clustering experience. I am trying to build a Windows Server 2012 two-node failover...
View ArticleCluster-Aware Updating DNS configuration
Hello,I've got a simple 2 node Server 2012 cluster and have configured CAU. It actually runs the updates just fine, but something is not quite right. When I run Server Manager, it lists the "entity" (I...
View ArticleClustering explained 101 ?
I'm trying to understand a fundamental concept of clustering - is it just the DATA that's replicated (or is SHARED more technically correct?) or is it also the APPLICATION that replicated (or shared)?I...
View ArticleAdding a second NIC failover Cluster for the SAN connection
Hello guys, I have a question about Hyper-v clustering subject.I have 3 notes Hyper-v cluster, with 6 NICS.1 NIC For Management, 192.x.x.x2 NICs for SAN communication, 10.x.x.x. both are in the same...
View Articleavailability groups and objects outside of database containment
With always on availability groups, system database cannot be replicated. If I want to use availability groups, how do I make objects that exist outside of database containment, agent jobs, linked...
View ArticleCannot create file share on 2-node 2012 file server cluster
I'm basically following this guide: http://derek858.blogspot.com.au/2012/10/windows-server-2012-smb-transparent.html but I am not using RDM disks, rather just standard vmdks running on vmfs. I can...
View ArticleLive Migration failed - failed to delete configuration: The request is not...
We have a 3 node cluster attached to a SAN running. All nodes are running Server 2012. We have 2 virtual machines that will no longer live or quick migrate. When we try, we get the following error...
View ArticleUnable to create 2-Node Cluster - Timeout Server 2012
Hello Everyone,I have 2-2012 servers that I'm trying to setup clustering with. Individually they can create their own 1 node cluster no problem, adding to an existing cluster doesn't seem to work...
View ArticleCan we install PXE services on a Windows Server 2008 R2 failover cluster and...
Hi,We want to install PXE services on a Windows Server 2008 R2 failover cluster, and make the PXE service available as a high end service.I had an idea of installing PXE Service on both nodes and...
View ArticleCreating new cluster with SAS storage
I have new equipment, 2 Dell rack servers running Windows Server 2012 Datacenter and a Dell storage array. The array has 14 disks. I've setup a RAID 10 volume using 12 of the disks with 2 for...
View ArticleDesign Question About Witness File Server
If I have 2 servers that will be utilizing hyper-v and storage spaces for clustering.Instead of having a 3rd dedicated server to be a witness server for my DAG and have a single point of failure. I...
View ArticleWindows 2008 cluster disks show "Reserved"under Disk management
I have 2 nodes Windows 2008 cluster servers. All disks show online under Failover cluster manager -Storage. The SAN disks show as "Reserved" under Storage -Disk Management.I have tried to clear...
View ArticleRequired High Performance Cluster in windows
Hi,How can i configure an High performance cluster.what operating system should i use to achieve that.
View ArticleClustered Storage Spaces - issue with SAS interposers and all SATA drives...
We have an OEM storage vendor telling us that it is NOT recommended at this time to use SAS interposers with any SATA drives (regardless of brand or type (HDD or SSD)) and use it with Windows Storage...
View ArticleWindows 2008r2 clustering multiple network question
I want to build and active/passive 2008r2 cluster that will run netbackup 7.5. I have mutilple networks that must connect to the cluster so that each subnet will be able to backup. My question is for...
View Article2008 Failover cluster disk signature changed and cluster failed during the...
Hi,We did a firmware upgrade on an HP Blade server that is a part of failover exchange 2007 cluster. After this cluster failover failed with error 1034Cluster physical disk resource 'Cluster Disk 1'...
View ArticleWindows 2008 R2 Clustering - MSDTC Client access point Limitations (IP)
I'm building a Windows Cluster and am adding MSDTC. The client I work for wants the IP address to be an internal address, not external. I noticed when attempting to install the MSDTC, under NETWORKS...
View ArticleClustered Hyper-V VM cannot be moved to another cluster node
Hello everybody, I just encountered the following problem: One of our customers is running two physical Win 2008 R2 SP1 Enterprise Servers which Hosts to a couple of clustered Hyper-V VMs. Let's say...
View ArticleConstant Log error id 2050 and 2051 - after added FC Storage and made it HA...
Hi, yesterday I added a LUN to our hyper-v cluster from an fc storage (eva 4100), and added it to our cluster storage. This needed the newest MPIO Driver and Qlogic Driver from HP, aswell as adding...
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