Windows 2008 cluster disk reserved
I have 2 Windows Server 2008 servers and I'm using a Dell Equallogic SAN. these 2 servers are setup as a cluster. I originally configured them a few months ago and then I didn't touch them for about...
View ArticleHyper-V hosts got frozen
Hi: Yesterday I was doing a maintenance on the hosts of a Hyper-V cluster, with two nodes. The cluster was a warning "overcommitted". The cluster has few virtual servers turned off.When I shutdown...
View ArticleFile Share Witness Resouces Errors in a SQL 2012 Alwayson Availability Group...
Hi I am getting the following error in WFC Manager and in my system event log:Event ID1564: File share witness resource 'File Share Witness' failed to arbitrate for the file share...
View ArticleWS2012 Quroum error
Hi,We have a 6 node WS2012 Hyper-V cluster currently configured with a "Node majority" quorum.When we try and change the Quorum settings to "File share witness"Share: \\servername\shareQuorum...
View ArticleActive/Active File Server Cluster - Quick Question
I am aware of the limitations with NTFS clustering and my topic is perhaps a bit of a misnomer, but what I would like to do is distribute the load of a two-node windows file server cluster so that some...
View ArticleIssues with SQl server failover
Hello, I have Couple of SQL server 2008 HQ01-BQDB01 and HQ01-BQDB02 Loaded on windows failover cluster service i have only one issues during testing the failover scenario when i disable the...
View ArticleDhcp fail over not working with out dc
how to conf dhcp fail over , with out DC,
View ArticleCluster Network Unavailable on one node
Hi,We have 5 node cluster. Eache node have 4 NICs. NIC 1 nad 4 are teamed and presented to HyperV , NIC 2 is for CSV and is in separate VLAN and NIC 3 is for Live Migrate and is also in separate VLAN...
View ArticleThree node sql cluster across 2 sites
I would like to create a 3 node sql cluster. One active and One passive on one site and a passive located on another site. The 2nd passive server will be on a different subnet and heartbeat will also...
View Article2008 R2 CSV Acting like Redirected Access but not in Redirected Access Mode
We've been experiencing some issues with some of our hyper-v guests lately with disk latency. On one of our busy clusters a VM could have an average read or write latency of up to 300-400ms with...
View ArticleActive/passive SQL cluster configuration
Is it possible to set up a sql server cluster that only fails over some databases? What I'd like to do is set up a 2 node cluster, have the production database instance on the primary node, and a...
View ArticleServer 2012 Enterprise Cluster Crashing
I have a two node Failover clustered DL380 G7 server setup (vs1 and vs2) with a p2000 between them to hold all the files. The problem we are having is that the vs2 will somewhat randomly (1 week ~1...
View ArticleSTATUS_CLUSTER_CSV_AUTO_PAUSE_ERROR not fixed with KB2848344
We are still receiving the following errors when DPM 2012 SP1 tries to backup the VMs on the Cluster Nodes.Cluster Shared Volume 'Volume6' ('Cluster Disk 6') is no longer available on this node because...
View ArticleAD DC & Failovercluster on one Server
Hi folks,I have read lots of threads, posts & stuff. Everyone says installing a AD DC / DNS & Failover Cluster on one 2012 machine is not a good idea.Is it really impossible, even if the...
View ArticleWindows Storage Server 2008 R2 cluster network issue
Hello everybody,I've a Network Attached Storage HP X5520 G2 with Windows Storage 2008 R2 and five clustered file servers with several issues; everydays, at 6.00 AM and 12.00 PM, there're many Network...
View ArticleCSVs assigned to the Cluster Aware Update DNN
Dear all,I have noticed that in our cluster our two CSVs are "assigned" to the cluster aware update' Distributed Network Name, i.e., browsing to Server Manager\File and Storage Services\Volumes the...
View Article"Consider adding additional networks or network interfaces to the cluster"...
Dear all,I would like to submit to your attention a warning that I can't fix in our two-node Windows Server 2012 Failover cluster :We have 6 "NICs" per node: - 2 NICs for iSCSI (PT0/1; 10.0.0.x and...
View ArticleCluster-aware updating - Self updating not working
Hi,I have a Windows Server 2012 failover cluster with 2 nodes, and I am having problems gettign the Self updating to work properly.The Analyze CAU Readiness does not report any issues, and I have been...
View ArticleHA, NIC teaming, and mirrored storage?
Forgive me if this is the wrong subforum.My scenario is that I have a VM environment, and we're looking to make a couple of windows servers act as our backend. So what I'm ultimately trying to...
View ArticleClustered Storage Spaces architecture
Hi!During recent TechEd sessions there were some talks about Storage Spaces and how to scale out SoFS cluster (for example, http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/Europe/2013/MDC-B218#fbid=F3Zyz8qjfcO,...
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