Windows 2008 R2 cluster drive letter changes when failing over
We have a 3 node windows 2008 R2 cluster running SQL 2008, when we failed it over to the new third node one of the drive letter of a disk changed. The disk is part of the SQL group in cluster admin...
View Article2012R2 - Validate a Configuration Wizard, Validate Network Communication...
I have two physical Dell R720's with Windows 2012R2 Datacenter and a HyperV VM (SCVMM 2012R2) with Windows 2012R2 Enterprise.I have been trying to get the SCVMM 2012 R2 wizard to build the cluster for...
View ArticleCluster (SQL instance) registering multiple-IP addresses (Datacenter and DR)
Hi everyone, I have an SQL cluster based on Windows Server 2012. Its a Geo Cluster with backend SAN replication to DR. The DR is a different subnet than the HQ nodes. (Two nodes in HQ, 1 node in DR)....
View ArticleSlow Disks After Cluster Creation
Hi, I have a Windows Server 2008R2 SP1 cluster, consisting of two VMWare virtual servers, which is experiencing very slow disk performance (~10mb/s when copying to or from any of the cluster disks). If...
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 ArticleWindows Load Balancing on Multiple VLAN?
Hi all. Just wondering if any of you having this same issue as I did. I've got NLB configured on 2 VM running on Hyper-V. Each of the VM equiped with 2 NIC. The NIC for heart beat purpose is...
View ArticleCluster enabler software requirement
I need to implement Microsoft Geo cluster across two different data centers. I am using EMC stroage. Do I need to Install Cluster enabler software ?If yes, What is the need for storage vendor cluster...
View ArticleMicrosoft best practices for patching a Cluster server
Good morning! I was wondering if you had any web resources (Webcasts) or whitepapers on Microsoft best practices for patching a Cluster server? I will list what I seen online; the third one was very...
View ArticleCluster Storage : All SAN drives are not added up into cluster storage.
Hi Team,Everything seems to be working fine except one minor issue which is one of the disk not showing in cluster storage even validation was without any issue, error or warning. Please see the report...
View ArticleCluster network name resource error 1196
I have a two-node Hyper-V 2012 Core Server cluster. Initially, the cluster was working fine and I was able to do live migrations with no problem. I first realized that something had gone wrong when I...
View ArticleEvent ID 1069 Cluster resource 'MSDTC Fails after Mcafee DAT update
My IT department has been struggling with this issue for several months and today it got escalated to me. I wanted to query anybody that has seen this issue that has MSDTC in a W2k8 R1 Cluster who...
View ArticleUnexplained redirected IO activity / Excessive network traffic on private...
Hello,I'm seeing a lot of traffic going over my cluster network that may be causing stability issues with my cluster. Communication to nodes would be randomly lost and kicked out of the cluster;...
View ArticleClusterPrepareSharedVolumeForBackup() fails on Window 2012 CSV
I've a Windows sever 2012 RC Hyper-V cluster with VM using CSV. There I'm seeing ClusterPrepareSharedVolumeForBackup() failing with error ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER. It works fine on 2008 r2. Any idea...
View Article2012 R2 - Clustering a High Availability File Server (File Server for General...
As per the post title.I have a new 2012 R2 cluster on a Dell VRTX (2 Blades and local shared storage)Quorum created plus large CSV for the Hyper-V's etc.I run the wizard to create a High Availability...
View ArticleWindows 2008 R2 Cluster failover issues
Hi all,I used to be quite proficient in Windows 2000/2003 clustering. I wanted to update my skill set so I have setup a 2008 R2 cluster at my home. Please note that this is in my home and is not...
View ArticleApplication Clustering in Windows server 2003
Hi,I am new to Windows clustering and need some inputs and suggestions. We a have Windows server 2003 enterprise edition. It's a stand-alone server hosting one of our critical application. We are...
View Article2012R2 - Validate a Configuration Wizard, Validate Network Communication...
I have two physical Dell R720's with Windows 2012R2 Datacenter and a HyperV VM (SCVMM 2012R2) with Windows 2012R2 Enterprise.I have been trying to get the SCVMM 2012 R2 wizard to build the cluster for...
View ArticleFailover cluster node - You do not have administrative privileges on the...
Hi Hello & Good morning Technet's,I would like to post a question which i really expecting a solution.I got 2 domain in one single forest.Domain 1: hg.corpDomain 2: iac.corp (iac.corp is a tree...
View ArticleCluster shared disk, user quotas
Hello,I am having some trouble finding any information on users quota's for a cluster shared disk. I have the system all setup and working with the file server role, shared disk and share's. All I...
View ArticleWindows 2012 Hyper-v Cluster Live Migration Failure
This is a fairly new deployment. When I first started having this issue, I foundhttp://support.microsoft.com/kb/2779204, which suggests that gpupdate /force will temporarily resolve the issue. That...
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