Warning: Failure of a node or quorum will cause the cluster to fail
Hi. I'm using some "one-service/two-node" clusters that my company has implemented.Of these clusters, one in particular posts the following warning in Failover Cluster Manager:"Warning: Failure of a...
View ArticleProgrammatically acquiring fully-qualified QuorumType
Hi. I use WMI to query cluster statistics.When I request the QuorumType against a Windows 2008 R2 Cluster, I get really useful information...1. Open wbemtest.exe 2. Connect to correct namespace 2a....
View ArticleGetting "An error occurred while attempting to bring the resource 'SQL...
Hi,I am trying to come up with a (Windows Server 2008 R2 64-Bit Ent Ed) Failover Cluster for bringing up a SQL Server 2008 R2 Clustered environment.For this I have got a "DC machine" and Two nodes...
View ArticleUpdate Coordinator
Hi all, I want to know what is Update Coordinator in Cluster-Aware Updating. And how does it work. Please help me in clearing my doubts.Thanks,
View ArticleHelp Evicting Node
Hello, I have a 3 node Server 2008 R2 SP1 Hyper-V failover cluster. I migrated VM's off of the node I want to evict onto the other two nodes. I need to evict the free node without disrupting the...
View ArticleClustered Disk, Shared, reporting incorrect usage. Failover resolves?
I made this post in a separate area, and a reply iwth more detail, but going to combine it. In the last 10 days, we've had 3 of our critical Windows Server 2008 Enterprise nodes start growing in disk...
View ArticleUsers seeing different contents of fileserver share depending on drive mapping
This one has me utterly stumped.We have a 3-node Server 2008 R2 cluster. Each node is hosting a fileserver resource for various file shares. One of the fileservers (FS4) hosts the users home folders...
View ArticleCluster-Aware Updating status 'Canceled'
Hi all, I am trying to use Cluster-Aware Updating to update the nodes in the cluster. I have two nodes cluster. When I ran the update first time in node1 it succeeded, after that the...
View ArticleDisk resources are online, but expected redirect access..
I have windows 2012 hyper-v cluster with 4 nodes and 2 csv disks and using vmm 2012 sp1. We just added the fourth node to the cluster without configuring access to csv luns on the san - Don't ask me...
View ArticleServer Core & Full edition 2008 r2 sp1 on the same cluster
I have a server core installation running on two hosts. The hosts are badly adminsitered and need to be re engineered. I will be adding a third host to the cluster and want to add it as full server...
View ArticleEvent id 1566 Cluster network name resource 'Cluster Name' cannot be brought...
Hi,Every time my cluster node reboots for updates, its gives out errors saying : Cluster network name resource 'Cluster Name' cannot be brought online. The network name resource was terminated by the...
View ArticleHow to create 2 node active active cluster using hyper v in 2008 R2 server
What I have : I am using 2 node : node-a & node-b , Both using server 2008 R2 ,I created 2 Lun & mapped both node, In node-a I installed 3 VM using Hyper v role .What I want : When node-a is...
View ArticleLoad Balancing VM after a host failure in Hyper V
I have a three node cluster I have two virtual switches running a teamed network for my production VMs.I need to plan to best allocate subnets across the available corporate network virtual switches to...
View ArticleFail Over loadbalancing of VMs
Operating System 2008 r2I have a two node cluster at the moment failover is routine– there are two nodes so all VMs failover from the failed host to the other. I am proposing the addition of a third...
View ArticleWindows 2008 Cluster with SAN and DAS
Is it possible to have both SAN and DAS in a cluster environment? Will they work fine even if they use different software for running multi-pathing? Is this configuration advised?Thanks
View ArticleHow can I make node local shared folders viewable from the Client Access...
How can I make node local shared folders viewable from the Client Access Point of a cluster? I want the shared folders of the local storage to show up when the cluster ip is connected to. Been...
View ArticleHyper-V Migration and Rebuild of Storage Array
Question: Is it possible to move High Availability (Clustered on 4 Servers) Hyper-V VM Servers to a temporary External Harddrive without having to Export Each One?? - Shut down All VMs, copy...
View ArticleMaximum cluster nodes on Windows Server 2012 Standard
Is there any restriction on maximum number of cluster nodes on Windows Server 2012Standard?Cannot find any information.This link What's New in Failover Clustering have information about Windows Server...
View ArticleHigh Availability of VMs
I am looking for a way that makes the VMs on a host migrate to other hosts in a cluster in the event the host server faliure. Once the failure has happened I would like the VMs on that machine be...
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...
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