move vm from a hyper-v host to a cluster
First,thanks for the help.I had ahyper-vserverwith severalvm.installing anadditionalhyper-vserver. Create aclusterwithtwo servers and createserverreplicas.I haveshared storageSMB3.0rateonanother...
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How to define the fail-over order in a windows 2012 cluster
If I am setting up a 3 node Windows 2012 Cluster. (for SQL Always on availability groups). Here Node 1 and Nod2 are in 2 data centers in the same country.Node 3 is in a different country.I want to...
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Windows 2012 Failover Cluster: Access denied message
We have a Windows 2012 cluster in our environment. I created the cluster under my Domain admin account & the problem i am seeing is none of my fellow colleagues are able to acces or view the...
View ArticleHow to force a quorum?
I have a two node cluster.I am planning to skip any witness. So I will not use either a Disk or FileShare as a witness.So if one node is lost, the cluster would become unavailable. OK, if that happens...
View ArticleWindows Failover Cluster - Different IP
Good Morning! I need to create a WFC (Windows Failover Cluster) in my environment, because i will delivery to my client a AlwaysOn , But the problem begins when i need to assign a IP to the WFC…. I...
View ArticleVMs Fail Randomly on 2012 Cluster
Our 2-node Server 2012 Hyper-V cluster is having an issue where VMs seem to randomly fail for no apparent reason. We are using Dell R900s with a MD3200i SAN and we have separate networks for iSCSI and...
View ArticleSAS vs SATA in (Clustered ?) Storage Spaces for Hyper-V cluster
Hello,I'm planning to build some Hyper-V cluster, and i was looking at R2 Storage Spaces with storage tiering for cheap shared storage.I need near-full HA (for the 0,001%, i will have backup/replica in...
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...
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Event ID 1212 - Cluster network name resource 'Cluster Name' cannot be...
Hello,We implemented a Windows Server 2012 hyper-V cluster recently. All was working correctly. However we decommissioned one of our 2003 Domain controller recently. Since then whenever I try to move...
View ArticleQuorum/witness disk, simulate failover...or reboot owner node?
Just a quick question on the behavior of the witness disk/quorum.I have a 4 node 2012 cluster, I need to shutdown the node that owns the witness disk, there are no running VM's on said node. How do I...
View ArticleNo disks were found on which to perform cluster validation tests
I am trying to make a cluster of two Hyper-V machines running Windows Server 2012.There is a SAN available in which I have created several partitions to use such as J drive, K drive L drive etc.All...
View ArticleHow to move a Cluster Disk to another resource
I have a 4-node cluster with many services. One of those services is a File Server that hosts 3 file shares each having their own Cluster Disk. We would like to move 1 of those file shares and its...
View Article2008 R2 - 5 Node Failover Hyper V Cluster - Evict Offline Node
One node in the cluster has suffered a hardware failure and is currently offline.The hardware issue precludes me from bringing the server online.We have no intention of rebuilding the node as there is...
View ArticleEncountering 'SQL Network Name (xxxx)' failed to create its associated...
I am installing SQL cluster 2012 and encounter the following error. The cluster event log has following error. Please help me to understand this and solve this.Cluster network name resource 'SQL...
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Inactive node's NTBACKUP not running pointing to error in VSS
HiIn a cluster environment , one node which is INACTIVE (Windows Server 2003 Ent.64 bit), while executing the NTBACKUP command the following errors occur and unable to perform the backupAny help is...
View ArticleWindows 2012 Multi-site cluster, quorum configuration question
We are working on building windows 2012 multi-site cluster for SQL 2012 AgAO solution. The Site-A has two nodes and a file share where as site-B has two nodes. Looking at the quorum configuration...
View ArticleWindows 2012 Multi-site cluster
Hi All,Currently we are building windows 2012 multi-site cluster, there are two nodes on primary site and two nodes on secondary site, and there is one file share on primary site. The WSFC cluster is...
View ArticleWhat is the best RAID configuration for a failover cluster, RAID 5 or 10?
Hi, I have a question: What is the best RAID configuration for a failover cluster, RAID 5 OR 10?Thanks in advanced.
View ArticleHow to migrate cluster fileserver volume to another?
Hi there, This is what I need to do. I've setup file server under my win 2008 r2 cluster. I have a volume Z assigned to it via ISCSI. The problem that I am running into now is that I have MBR on...
View ArticleServer 2012 Cluster installation on a DC = Error finding domain controller
HiJust planning/installing this Scenario (hope this is supported. Also: no Exchangeserver Installation!)3x physical Serverseach one with Server 2012 installed and as a DomaincontrollerHyper-V...
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