Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) – Extending a Volume - Windows 2012
hi guysWindows 2012 - Hyper-V cluster 2 HostsI am using 2 volumes from my storage as CSV in my hyper-v cluster I am using Virtual machine manager to manage the hyper-v clusterNow I want to increase...
View ArticleCluster IP Address Issue
Hi All,Having a communications issue with the IP address in the cluster and wanted to get some other input on this.The cluster is running fine and validation returns good results.However, the cluster...
View ArticleIs there any downtime when moving resource groups in a Server 2003 Cluster?
I'm currently responsible for a Server 2003 / SQL2005 Cluster, and need to reboot one of the hosts. I know how to move the resource groups, I just need to know if there is any downtime when doing...
View ArticleServer 2012 Two Node Cluster - Disk Witness?
I am in the process of setting up a new 2012 two node cluster for a Hyper-V workload using shared iSCSI (CSV) storage. Everything is working fine and I was able to Live Migrate and failover test VM's....
View ArticleSetting up High Availability on a 2012 Hyper-V Guest
Hello allI dont know if this is possible or not but here is my situation.I have a server in Houston and a server in Indiana. They are both Hyper-V Hosts. Inside the Hosts I have 1 Guest machine with...
View ArticleNodes 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 ArticleError using MSMQ (clustered) from remote clustered Windows service (MSMQ...
We have a working MSMQ clustered resource with queues (Ws 2003). This one is working OKThis clustered MSMQ is used to day with a Windows service/applikation (.Net) on a single remote server (not...
View ArticleHow to put a failed reource offline without going online?
Hi, Hope you could help me with this, in win2k8 failover cluster we have generic application configured.Sometimes it failes and can't be brought online beacause of dependencies outside the box.In these...
View ArticleClustermember is evicted after Software-/ Hardwareupdate
Hello there,in a HA-Cluster there is something strange. While installing Update on one paused host, there is a nother one which will be evicted from the cluster.On this special host the failover...
View ArticleReporting service on SQL server 2012 Cluster.
Hi All,I have installed a SQL server 2012 Cluster & have used this cluster for SCCM 2012.Reporting feature is installed in both the nodes of the cluster.My problem is that when i run the sql...
View ArticleMSDTC scripted Install On Windows Server 2012
We are trying to Install MSDTC using powershell on a 2 Node Failover Cluster on a WS2012 std environment.Everything goes right except the grouptype of the MSDTC resource appears unknown (9999). Instead...
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 Article2 Windows Server 2008, IIS Clusting with NLB Active/Active
I want to do windows application NLB with WCF service.1. Windows Server 2008 NLB Configuration (Node1) App1 Windows Service App2 WCF Service2. Windows Server 2008 NLB Configuration...
View Article"List Services Information" fails during cluster validation
W2K8 SP2, 2 nodes, while validating the nodes for cluster creation everything is OK except for "List Services Information" which fails. The error that I get in the report is:An error occurred while...
View ArticleFailover Cluster and ISCSI
Enviornment:File server Resource Cluster2 nodes - Server 2008 R2 OS in a virtual machine (VMware)Each node has LUNS/Volumes connecting via software ISCSI (Microsoft)Each node has 2 ISCSI dedicated...
View ArticleForming active Node in Cluster
Hi,While discussing some Windows Cluster points below is one of the point where definate answer is not concluded and not able to find anything directly in Technet.1) What is the decision making point...
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 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 ArticleHyper-v 2012 cluster completely broken...
In a test environment I created an Hyper-V server 2012 cluster with 1 iscsi CSV with VM's on it which worked fine.Today I found some spare memory modules so I decided to upgrade the memory one of the...
View ArticleNeed help: No longer able to access to cluster
I have a cluster that consists of 2 servers, both of them running Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, joined in a same domain and managed by Failover Cluster Manager. Recently, I did OS hardening on both of...
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