Server does not see changes on LUN made by other Servers
Hello,I currently have a Bladecenter which has 2 Blades accessing the same LUN of the Storage of the Bladecenter.If I create a new folder on one Blade (Server) the other Blade does not see this folder....
View Article2012 Cluster Validation Report - Errors
Seems like a simple enough error but i cant seem to figure out what I need to change.Results by Category > Hyper-V ConfigurationNode 'Server Name' is missing a virtual Ethernet switch 'Switch Name'...
View ArticleTwo DFS clustered roles with different redundant storages and DFS-R - Hyper-v...
Dear All,We have installed two DFS clustered role on the same 2-node Hyper-v 2012 cluster, of course with different Client Access Points (CAPs); we assigned a NAS storage LUN to one DFS role and...
View ArticleLocal Quorum - Windows Server 2008 R2 Failover Cluster
Hi, All!Currently reading the official MS Press MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit for exam 70-432 (SQL Server 2008 - Implementation & Maintenance). MS errata info had nothing about the following.A note...
View Article2012 cluster broken, service won't start
I created a 2012 cluster of 2 servers. I had it all set up with storage and all and then found that I messed up with the storage. So then I started trying to back out, dismantling the cluster piece by...
View Articleidentical VM hosts
hello everyone i have a small project to do i need to deploy VM hosts with +100 VM each these hosts are identical in hardware and software. what i want is to find out 1. can i automate deployment 2....
View ArticleServer 2012, Hyper-V Cluster point moint failure
I have a 6 node Server 2012 Hyper-V cluster. Each node was a fresh install with all local drives formatted and repartitioned during OS install.The first 5 nodes went great, but the 6th node is causing...
View ArticleClustered Storage Spaces - 3 disk minimum for 2-way mirror?
Why will a 2 disk, 1 column, 2-way mirrored space work fine outside of a cluster? Yet, when I want to use clustered storage spaces I need a minimum of 3 physical disks for a 2-way mirrored space?...
View ArticleMigrate file cluster server to new domain
Hi guys.the company i work for has a big cluster server made of 2 physical servers with lots of important shared folders and home folders that needs to be migrated from domain A to domain B with all...
View ArticleWindows 2008 clustering How do I exclude a network/nic from the cluster or...
I am adding a separate interface on my windows 2008R2 nodes and would like to know if we can exclude the interface from the cluster or validation. The problem I am facing is that the switch port is...
View ArticleFail Over Cluster 2012 - Kerberos security error
Hello,I have two Windows 2012 Datacenter Core installed on two box. I'm using Windows 2012 and Windows 8 PC to manage those two servers that are in a cluster. Everything is working fine. But when I...
View ArticleOne Server Seems to Use Two Domain Controllers - Depending on the tool-one-uses
This node, an 'active' node in a five-node SQL cluster, seems to report a different domain controller depending on which tool I run. (see output below)This SQL server is error free. I checked it...
View ArticleCluster Name access in Mulitisite Cluster with different IP address during...
We created a 2008 r2 failover multisite Steel EYE File cluster with different IP subnet. Cluster and Failover are working fine. No problem. The problem is to access the cluster name when it...
View ArticleClustering Hyper-V High Availability Server Farm - Network setup
Our base network is a 192.168.1.XIm setting up our iSCSI SAN connection on 192.168.15, does the server cluster need to be setup on a different network than the 15? Here is a diagram with what my...
View ArticleAffordable solution for testing CLUSTER, RD VIRTUALISATION, HYPER-V
Hi,I'm trying to get familiarized, in lab, with some 2008R2 advanced topics. My lab machines are :- DELL PowerEdge T310 server (with virtualization option and VMWARE ESXI 5.1 installed) for running...
View ArticleHyper-V Server 2008 R2 needs http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977158 applied...
Is there a reason this fix isn't available for Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 as well? The cluster I've built is affected by this same problem, just with Hyper-V Server!http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977158
View Articlecluster configurations
Hi ,I am using both windows 2008 r2 machine and windows 2012 server machine.I need to configure cluster environment in both these(2008 r2 and 2012) machines.It is possible to configure cluster in two...
View ArticleWIndows 2012, PowerVault MD3000, Failover Clustering
I know this is really a question for the Dell forums (which I posted on also) -Has anyone in the community had any success getting Failover Clustering working on Windows 2012 using a MD3000 and PERC...
View ArticleClustered Storage Spaces on RAID disks
hi all,i had posted the following a question here [http://blogs.msdn.com/b/clustering/archive/2012/06/02/10314262.aspx?PageIndex=2#comments] I have a SAS storage box which is not a JBOD. The SAS...
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...
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