Windows Failover cluster between Physical and Virtual nodes
Dear Team,One of our customer wants to build a SQL Cluster where 1<sup>st</sup> node is Physical server and 2<sup>nd</sup> node will be VM running on VMware ESX 6.0.As per my...
View ArticleSetup New Windows 2012 R2/2016 Server As Domain Controller and Clustering
Actual Setting 1. Windows 2008 R2 Servers Work Group running as a Remote Desktop Services (RDS) Server (or old name: terminal services) giving remote offices access to a Medical Billing Apps.2. SQL...
View ArticleCluster Storage Disks vs. Pools
I'm setting up a Hyper-v Failover cluster for the first time and am unsure of when and why to put my disks into a pool or just create disks. I have (2) LUNs on my DAS. One RAID 10 with 15K drives in it...
View ArticleDelete and recreate bitlocker-encrypted clustered file shares?
Hi all - I have a Server 2012 Cluster connecting to a SAN with Basic Disks shared out to 2 different Clustered Shared Volumes.However, I would like to extend one of the 4TB drives to 6TB (only...
View ArticleStorage spaces direct - STATUS_IO_TIMEOUT
Hi Everyone,I configured cluster of 4 Supermicro X10DRIservers to test storage spaces direct. Supermicro server configuration:- 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2640v3 CPU - 10 x 32GB 2133MHz DDR4 RAM - 2 x SSD 400GB...
View ArticleIssue with adding a file share witness
Hi,I've a 2 SQL Servers clustered but no file share witness has been added to them, so I'm trying to add a file share witness now and I got the following error:Configure Cluster Quorum SettingsWitness...
View Articlelive migration failed - VM restarted
Dear All,I have cluster with WIndows 2012 R2 with all updates installed.When trying to migrate or drain role - some time the operation doesn't complete and in log I see next errors:Cluster network name...
View ArticleWindows 2016 Hyper-V cluster
Hi, my plan is to install a new Hyper-V 2016 cluster. My plan is to run Exchange 2016, SQL 2014/2016 (Navision C5) Exchange sever 2016, Domain controller 2016 and Terminal server 2016. I will be...
View ArticleEvent ID: 10028 error
We have a number of servers that are not being remotely rebooted weekly via a script. This is the error i see in the event log but I cannot find a solution that works. This is from our utility box on...
View Article2016 S2D Cluster, SMB failover not working
Hi,we have a 3-node 2016 S2D Cluster on Dell 730xd with 12x4TB SATA and 4x480GB SSD pools/tiers installed according to a guide by Lenovo. Everything clusterwise is working well, except if we have a SMB...
View ArticleNode in cluster - status changes to "paused"
We have seven Windows 2012 R2 nodes in a Hyper-V cluster. They are all identical hardware (HP BladeSystem). For a while, we had only six nodes, and there were no problems.Recently, we added the seventh...
View ArticleScheduler task should run on cluster servers !
Hi Guys, Hope you all doing good. I have payment related scheduler is running on only one server, which need to configure in Cluster level. As we need redundancy on scheduler , if one node is down...
View Articlemini HA basic config
Hi,I'm planning to set up cluster with win 2012 and 2012 R2 servers. It's my first one so I'd like to get some extra knowledge before I start.Config is simple: Servers are virtualized with esxi, and...
View ArticleHyper-V NLB VIP unable to ping from some clients
Hi Allwe are developing distribution applications, it's heavy rely on windows NLB to provider load balance function. I deployed 11 NLB instances, all NLB nodes are Hyper-V VM. all VM and V-Host both...
View ArticleHyper-V NLB VIP cannot ping from some clients
Hi Allwe are developing distribution applications, it's heavy rely on windows NLB to provider load balance function. I deployed 11 NLB instances, all NLB nodes are Hyper-V VM. all VM and V-Host both...
View ArticleIs there any way or command to find out cluster resource name that running...
We have below queries on MSCS1. We would like to run below cluster command from remote server. Please suggest the process. Get-ClusterResource "Disk E" | Select Name,State,OwnerGroup,ResourceType2....
View ArticleDefault gateway IP address gets wiped from load balancer VM's when I create a...
So I created 3 load balancers with Windows server 2008 R2 and installed the NLB software on all 3.Then on the first LB VM I added the DNS names of the other 2 LB's and connected to them - all seems...
View ArticleWindows 2008 R2 Cluster refuses to start on one node.
Hi,I'm having an intresting error on a SQL ClusterSystem is 2*Windows 2008 R2 SP1 & SQL 2008 R2 with A/P-cluster configuration.After a crash which happened by unknown reasons one of the nodes...
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FCM not loading Properties for configured Hyper-V shares
We have 3 nodes, 2 of which are part of a hyper-v cluster. Many moons ago I configured network shares within FCM, for the last few days when attempting to select properties for specific shares it...
View ArticleEach node running a VM at the same time in a failover cluster?
Greetings.I have a 2 node failover cluster. Each node has a Hyper-V role in it. I have 2 virtual machines that i'd like to run. Currently, they are both on one node at any one time ( in case of...
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