File Share witness vs Disk witness
Hi,When configuring a Failover Cluster for Hyper-V based on Windows Server 2012, is it supported to use a Disk Witness from a 3rd site connected by iSCSI? The failover cluster will have 8 nodes, 4 in...
View ArticleMulti-node (3 or 4) Windows 2012 Cluster with shared SAS JBOD storage (no SAS...
I have been reading a lot about the new Windows 2012 features, the SAS JBOD based storage options are very, very appealling!All the reading I have done, finds that once a cluster has more than 2 hosts...
View ArticleWindows 2008 Failover Cluster - Cannot add a generic service
Trying to add a generic service in a failover cluster.Select the option Services and Application and it opens the wizard and then displays the error "An error was encountered while loading the list of...
View ArticleCluster errors involving demoted DC
Yesterday I got some cluster errors including a few source FailoverClustering, ID 1212 about the cluster name resource not able to be brought online. It also says an attempt to locate a writeable DC in...
View ArticleCluster LOG Analyzer for 2008R2 Clustering
Hi, does anybody have a tip for a good LOG analyzer tool for 2008r2 failover´s?regards.Marcus
View ArticleWin 2008 R2 Cluster File Server Failover Disconnects Users
After creating the cluster service, I tested the process of moving the service from one node to the other. Selected "Move this service to another node" and a box popped verifying to move to the...
View ArticleCAU failing with CimException
Ok, I have a test domain, all Windows 2012 servers. I've set up a 2 node Windows Cluster and configured CAU. Everything appears ok, except after applying the CAU, I get the following errors (I've...
View ArticleProblems with connect to a share on a cluster 2008 with ip address
Hello,I have built a new Cluster 2008 an copied solle Files via robocopy to the new cluster. Now I have the following problem.Connect via \\IP-address\share --> does not workConnect via...
View Articlere-create clustername in AD
I have a two node cluster running HyperV and the cluster just started spitting out errors that it couldn't bring the clustername online. This is the error message:Cluster network name resource...
View Article2003 cluster: add node wizard reports wrong IP info
Hello all,I am trying to add a 4th node to a 2003 cluster. When I run the add node wizard the summary shows the public and private IP addresses for an existing node in the cluster (the one that is...
View ArticleCan't remove Failover Cluster feature on Windows 2008 R2
HelloWhen remove the Failover Cluster feature has following message:Cannot remove Failover ClustingThis server is an active node in a failover cluster. Uninstalling the Failover CVlustering feature on...
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2012 Cluster - clustername shows as cluster.domain.org.domain.org
I'm not sure where I've gone wrong, or what I have misconfigured but our clusters are showing the domain.org multiple times in the clustername. Everything from the cluster perspective is working fine,...
View Articlejava.exe process not killed during fail over occured due to network failure -...
We are using Failover Cluster Manager version 6.1 of Windows Server 2008 R2. We have confiugred a General application for java.exe for failover to happend between server C1 and Server C2. We have found...
View ArticleMS DTC Name resource fails to start
Hi,I am tying to configure Windows Server 2008 failover cluster. It has two Windows Server 2008 SP2 nodes, Quorum configuration - Node and Disk Majority. I need to install SQL Cluster there and MS DTC...
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Hyper-v 2012 Cluster with CSV attached via iSCSI to SAN - Metric Settings?
Hi,What metric should I use for my iSCSI netowrk connection from my cluster to my SAN?. I have seen this article (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff182335(v=ws.10).aspx) about changing the...
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 ArticleError: The computer is joined to cluster when creating the Cluster
Hello Guys, I have created a cluster to configure Hyper-V for 2 Nods, everything was greate and works perfectly, next day the storage hang and the cluster didn't work any more, I have destroyed the...
View ArticleCluster existing R2 server with multiple instances?
I have an existing server 1+ years old with 5 instances. I just received notice that the hardware genie will be visiting my company with a second node for my server.Experienced in Win2003/SQL2005...
View ArticleVSS copies lost between nodes?
In testing a 2012 F/O Cluster, it seems that Volume Shadow copies are often lost on a disc if it fails between nodes (or even possibly, if dedup runs)? i.e. Windows 2012 cluster, LUNs mounted with VSS...
View ArticleHeartbeat IP in cluster
Hi,I know this is little silly, but I am a beginner, I just want to know what is heart beat IP, I am using WS2008 R2.Please share your views.Swaprakash..
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