Patching Failover Clusters and Moving Nodes
I'm testing out Neil Peterson's method of patching Clusters with Orchestrator and SCCM 2012. In his example, he has two nodes. He drains one node and patches it. Then he does that on the other node....
View ArticleWindows Server 2012 Failover Cluster Dynamic Quorum issues: Last man standing...
Start situation: 3-node cluster. Nodes with Windows 2012 Datacenter edition as guests on Hyper-V 2012. (A, B & C)We've followed this blogpost...
View ArticleVERY SIMPLE Clustering question I hope to have answered tonight
I know the answer to this question but I am hoping to get some high level folks to chime in and confirm my question for folks I need to relay back to.The question is ... is Clustering part of SQL...
View ArticleMSDTC required on 2008 R2 DHCP cluster?
We are upgrading our Windows Server 2003 DHCP cluster to Windows Server 2008 R2.Our current live DHCP cluster also contains a clustered MSDTC resource. Is MSDTC needed for a DHCP cluster?From...
View ArticleWindows Cluster 2012
Hello After installing Cluster on the two nodes. (Everthing went accourding to plan.) When I move the disks from one node to the other I get the following error on one node....Cluster disk resource...
View Articlecluster drive letters changed
Hello All,I have a two-node sql server(2012) cluster on Windows server 2008 R2. There is 2 database resources in the cluster. I moved all my resources from node 2 to node 1 and restarted node node2....
View ArticleRequirements for similar hardware in a 2012 Hyper-V failover cluster?
Simple question:How similar does the hardware have to be on the host servers in a Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V failover cluster?We have 6 dell servers that we are hoping to use for building a Windows...
View ArticleCreating a new Cluster failed with "An error occurred while creating the...
Hi,We have 2 Windows server 2012 Datacenter edition with 4 NIC, I am trying to configure windows cluster and validation test passed successfully.the 2 servers are connected to storage with fiber....
View ArticleHyper-V 2012 Live migration fails, quick migration works
Hi.My Environment is two 2012 Hyper-V (Datacentre) servers, clustered. These servers have different hardware but the network cards are named the same. When I do a quick migration it works perfectly but...
View ArticleEvent ID: 1123 - The node lost communication with cluster node on network...
Getting below error very often - Can someone can advice.. OS Version - 2003_64bit_ent and we have configured 4 node cluster.The node lost communication with cluster node on network 'private'.Event...
View ArticleMicrosoft-Windows-FailoverClustering cannot be found. Either the component...
Hi All, I'm facing SQL Cluster failover problem, I have 2 server, named: SQL01 and SQL02. currently SQL02 owner of Quorum, DTC and SQL. Error event ID as follow:The description for Event ID 1205 from...
View ArticleCluster Name and IP not pingable for few minutes
We have a Windows 2008 R2 Cluster for HYPER-V.We will be doing a network migration of the switches.The Cluster IP address will not be pingable for 2 minutes.We want to know what will be the impact on...
View ArticlePresenting fibre Channel LUN's as a single Highly Available share
We would like to present 20 x 1TB LUN's from a DELL FC SAN as a single HA file share for general use. MPIO is installed and both the nodes in the cluster respond correctly.My issue is that I cannot see...
View ArticleHow can I use cache with NLB?
Hi,I have an ASP.NET app that uses catching. Is it possible to use cache (not session) over an NLB environment? I think no, each server would have his own cache and and might not be synchronized....
View ArticleSQL Server 2008 r2 failed on Windows Server 2012
Hi AllI have a Windows 2012 Server and i want to install cluster SQL 2008 R2 I validate my configration without any error and i create my cluster windows without any problem,I create also DTC role and...
View ArticleNLB 2 Nics Per Server - How to setup gateways
Tell me how to best set this up:2 servers. Each with 2 nic's all on the same subnet.Load Balanced Cluster nls.domain.com10.2.2.110 | 255.255.255.0Server ALAN nic - 10.2.2.100 | 255.255.255.0 |...
View ArticleXP Clients unable to access a 2012 Clustered File server by name, only by IP...
Enviroment: Failover Cluster 2012: Physical Nodes: srv-cluster01 and srv-cluster02Virtual Nodes: srv-fscluster;Domain: Only 1 Florest and 1 Domain, two Domain Controllers(Replicated and Checked);I has...
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Unable to move clients with Move-SmbWitnessClient command – SMBWitnessService...
Hi, we are having a 2-node fileserver failover cluster based on Windows Server 2012 Datacenter.We are having 2 roles defined in the cluster, a File server for user data and a Scale-Out File Server for...
View ArticleNLB Clustering
We had setup clustering in Windows 2003 Server. Host1 with Priority1 and Host2 with Priority2. When the Host1 is down, the user was unable to hit host2. But if we tried another request from another...
View ArticleCSV errors STATUS_IO_TIMEOUT Windows 2012 Hyper-V Failover cluster
Hi there,I'm seeing these errors sometimes, on a Windows 2012 Hyper-V Failover Cluster.Cluster Shared Volume 'Volume1' ('Cluster Disk 1') is no longer available on this node because of...
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