Get a List of VMs That Were Moved After Failover Incident
Hi All,I recently had a node hang, and all the VMs on it were failed over to other nodes in the cluster.However, due to MySQL failing to start on practically all Linux VMs for some weird reason I...
View ArticleAccess denied adding 2nd node to 1-node cluster
Hello, folks. Hoping someone can tell me where I've gone wrong. Have a couple 2008 Enterprise Server Core machines for a file server cluster. Initially created a one-node cluster and is working fine....
View ArticleExtra 8 bytes for each partition in "DiskVolumeInfo" x64 ?
Hi, MS describes the structure of "DiskVolumeInfo" that for 2008 cluster X64, each partition info is record as 40 bytes: 8 bytes: starting offset 8 bytes: partition length 4 bytes: partition number 4...
View ArticleCluster-in-a-box
Has anyone built a Cluster in a box solution using a shared SAS JBOD?I am looking for new solutions for my data warehouse as my SAN is end of life. SAN costs are very high (especially if you go SSD or...
View ArticleHow to configure High available DC?
a question about high avaiable DC.This is 3 DCs.how can I configure high avaiable DC Server? Is there the step by setp document ?
View ArticleWindows Server 2008 failover cluster disk not coming online after primary...
Hi All,We are facing an issue with Windows server 2008 Cluster configuration, our architecture consists of two HP DL 380 servers, one HP P 2000 Storage area network. While testing the failover...
View ArticleWindows 2012 Hyper-V, network priority
Hi,Got three four (4) network.(2x NICs) Network A = Production + Management (I know this is not recommended, but lack NICs)(2x NICs) Network B = iSCSI(1x NIC) Network C = Cluster Traffic and CSV(1x...
View ArticleStrange failure of cluster nodes
I have a 4 node failover cluster on server 2008 R2 which has been running perfectly for many months.Just tonight 2 of the 4 nodes failed totally with the same symptons.The only real error event that is...
View Article2 VMs will not move or migrate to other node
I have 2 nodes in my cluster. Both are identical and running Windows 2008 R2. Last week sometime I had all of my VMs running on node1. The next day I came in and they were all on node2 except for 2...
View ArticleServer (2008R2) cluster topology
I've recently come into an additional four servers that are quite beefy. What better time to build redundancy and HA into my platform!What I currently have is fairly simple: two web servers, a DB...
View ArticleCluster Shared Volumes creation: No disks suitable for cluster disks were found.
Hello everyone. I'm having difficulty with a test lab involving Hyper-V and shared storage. The lab consists of the following:1 Dell Poweredge 1950 - Windows 2012 AD DS Domain Controller2 Dell...
View ArticleThe access disk is more slow when insert 10st disk with Windows Server 2008...
I have a problem in a MSCS when add more than 9 disk in the nodes.When add 10 disk, the disk management is more slow and all operations whit disks spend a lot of time. The access to disk needs about 5...
View ArticleThrottling VM Starts
Hi All,Having issues on a failover where I believe a boot storm is occuring, this leads to other nodes failing etc.There is an article here:...
View ArticleWindows Server 2008 R2 high availability
I Want to know the procedure of making additional domain with existing domainand check if my exisiting domain goes down my additional domain will be upin the mean while?????
View ArticleUnable to add a second node in Cluster - Windows 2012
Hi,I have a lot of trouble, trying to create a cluster in a lab environment using Windows Server 2012. I can create the cluster only with one node. As soon as I try with 2 nodes, it failed due to...
View ArticleDifference between Resilience and Reduandancy
Hi,Pls explain what is Difference between Resilience and Reduandancy in Windows with Example.Thanks
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 ArticleCannot add cluster disk on windows 2012
I have 2 servers connected to a shared storage array using Fibre Channel. Currently there are 2 luns on the storage device. From the Failover Cluster Manager, when I select “Add Disk” from Storage –...
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 ArticleNetworking Profiles
Hi All,I have an interesting issue which between myself and a client we have been unable to resolve.We have a few Windows 2008 R2 VPSs running in a high availability environment in Hyper-V. These are...
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