"Optimize" a CSV volume
I have a H-V 2012 cluster with 3 nodes. I use a CSV volume to store the VMs. I have all the latest patches installed. I have an Equallogic SAN (PS4000) with the latest firmware on it providing the...
View ArticleHow to add new network for backup to a 2 node active passive windows 2008 r2...
Hi All,We have a prduction setup with,1. Two node windows 2008 r2 enterprise active passive failover cluster with one instance of MS SQL 20082. One network for heart beat, one for management and one...
View ArticleComputer Redirection, any known issues with Clustering
We plan to configure Computer Redirection on our AD environment, such that computers joined to domain be redirected to another OU on which admins have delegated rights to move the computers into their...
View ArticleHighly Available WebSphere on Windows Server
What is the best way to protect the web site running on WebSphere Application Servers running on Windows Server 2008?Implementing the hardware load balancing in front of the app servers would be enough...
View ArticleDisks not showing in “ADD Disk” wizard for adding as cluster disk in windows...
We have 2 servers (windows 2012 Datacenter) connected to a shared storage array using Fibre Channel (EMC CX3-20C). Currently there are 20 Luns on the storage device witch presented to both the node. We...
View ArticleHow to eliminate the single point of failure in my cluster?
I've never configured a cluster, so I'm trying to fully understand something that's bugging me - how do you eliminate your SAN as your single point of failure in a cluster?This caught my interest:...
View ArticleCan we create NLB cluster between 2k3 and 2k8
Is this possible to create NLB between 2k3 and 2k8 machines.
View ArticleIssues with resource creation on W2K12 SQL failover cluster, confirm procedures
I'm on my 2nd 2012 SQL multi-node cluster and I'm running into the same issue in bringing the resources online. In the first instance the issue was with a new sql instance for an app. Posted...
View ArticleFailover Cluster WMI Provider detected an invalid character - W2008R2 SP1
We have a four node Hyper-V cluster running Windows 2008 R2 SP1 Data centre editionFor several months the following error has been flooding the application logs on the servers.Failover Cluster WMI...
View ArticleHyper-V Server 2008 R2 & 2012 clusters need KB977158 backported for 1196...
Is there a reason this fix isn't available for Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 as well? The cluster I've built is affected by this same problem, just with Hyper-V Server!http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977158
View ArticleNLB Manager donot show the other host
Hello a few months back, I installed and configured Windows NLB on a couple of exchange CAS servers and everything seems to be working fine (still working fine). However, the other day when I opened...
View ArticleCluster drive not failover
HICan you suggest me pleaseIt's two node sql cluster,Moving resources form Node A to Node BAll the drive failover to another node except one drive.Issue with only one drive,Please suggest
View ArticleCluster Shared Volume Offline after a power outage
HiWe need some help on a two node Clustered Windows Server 2012 Hypervisors. The CSV is on a Lefthand iSCSI SAN and they are managed by SCVMM SP1.When the cluster is created all VMs are running fine....
View ArticleDhcp fail over not working with out dc
how to conf dhcp fail over , with out DC,
View ArticleUnable to add Node to cluster - Windows Server 2012
We are having troubles trying to add a node to a cluster where there is an AlwaysOn Availability Group role, all systems are using Windows Server 2012. This node was previously working without...
View ArticleHow to delete the default "cluster" folder once the Quorum drive has been...
Installed a Windows Server 2008 R2 Failover Cluster. By default, the Failover Cluster Manager assigned the X:\ drive as the Quorum drive. Using Failover Cluster Manager, I was able to move\reassign...
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Help! Single Node using all of its memory on Server 2012 Cluster
I have two Server 2012 Nodes (Dell R620s) running a Hyper-V Cluster using CSVs on a Dell PS4100 SAN.Each Node has 256GB of Memory, and currently each node only runs two Virtual Machines with Assigned...
View ArticleCan't start Cluster Service
I have 2 Windows Server 2003 servers that were clustered and lost their SAN. The SAN has been restored, but I can't get the service to start on either server. On one server I get the following...
View ArticleCluster shared volume disappear... STATUS_MEDIA_WRITE_PROTECTED(c00000a2)
Hi all, I am having an issue hopefully someone can help me with. I have recently inherited a 2 node cluster, both nodes are one half of an ASUS RS702D-E6/PS8 so both nodes should be near identical....
View ArticleWindows 2012 Cluster VMWare ESXi 5 iSCSI
We are trying to build out a SQL Cluster server under VMware 5 on a iSCSI SAN backend. Has anyone had any luck in running 2 Virtual Windows 2012 servers setup in a Cluster pointing to the same shared...
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