How to Disable a Cluster Disk Driver in windows 2012
Hi,I am trying to find out is there any change in accessing cluster/shared drive in Windows 2012 without starting the cluster service?Earlier in Windows 2003 we use to go to Non Plug and Play devices...
View ArticleCSV online (no access)
We have a HP P2000 G3 SAN and have 2 Servers running WS2012. I have configured Failover clustering and Presented one of the LUNS usning iSCSI to one of the servers to start.I have then configured that...
View ArticleNetwork settings failover cluster
Hi,During configuring the failover cluster, everything went fine and all the test were succesful. However, during configuring the network settings, I had to choose an IP-address. But it only showed one...
View ArticleKB2520235 Hotfix on Cluster nodes
I installed KB2520235 on the first node of a two node cluster successfully. The second node told me KB was Not Applicable. Now Validation report complains about the update difference. Why does the...
View ArticleFailure to see iSCSI nodes in Cluster Validation test
Hi,I've been trying to build a WS2012 cluster using a Dell MD3200i (with the 4/12/12 release supported firmware) and am getting the following warnings when running the Storage tests:Physical disk...
View ArticleAlternate Node and FileShare Majority for Failover Cluster on Second site
We are setup a failover cluster with 2 node each on separate site for sql server. Node and FileShare witness configured on primary Site. If the primary site fails then cluster will stop. Is there any...
View ArticleValidate Disk Access Latency failure
Hello,I got this with cluster validation:Failed to access cluster disk 2, or disk access latency of 0 ms from node yvrvthpw02.1800GOTJUNK.com is more than the acceptable limit of 3000 ms status 31And I...
View ArticleConvert File Server Virtual Machine to Standalone DFS
I want to convert a File Server Virtual Machine to a Standalone DFS, using the same name so that there is no interruption. I have already created a new volume on my Cluster and robocopy-ed all the...
View ArticleHow to set private properties of a cluster resource using WMI?
Hi,I wanted to know if there is an easier way to set or modify private properties of cluster resource using WMI from managed code (C#). One way I can think of is using ExecuteResourceControl Method of...
View Articlevalidate failover of two node Windowsi server 2008 R2 failover cluster
Hi Forum, I have setup a new two node windows failover cluster. It has shared quorum and a disk that contains Hyper v VM (LUN). To validate the failover wedisabled all the NIC cards in node 1(which is...
View ArticleCluster Shared Volume disks report Online (No Access)
Hi, bit of a strange one here...We're currently testing out a Hyper-V Failover Cluster on Windows Server 2012 RC. We are using shared storage (HP P4300 cluster) which is working just fine and giving no...
View ArticleMissing a VM in Failover Cluster Manager
We did eventually cut the power when shutting down the second of the two hosts in the cluster, because it got stuck at some stage during shutdown. The reason we shut down was that there were problems...
View ArticleWindows FAilover Clustering Name Resource Fails
Hi,We have configured a Failover cluster for the application and configured the same. Everything was working fine but suddenly it failed. Now when we are trying to create a Failover Cluster Again we...
View ArticleContinuous Availability in Windows Server 2012 Storage Spaces write...
Hi there!we built a test Environment for Storage Spaces and Hyper-V with SMB 3.0. We have 8 SAS discs in a JBOD box. We connected two supermicro Servers. We get the expected Performance out of the...
View ArticleNLB from host inside the cluster
Hi all,We have setup of NLB cluster (multicast - Windows 2008 R2) with different ports (all ports are TCP, with Multiple host filtering mode and None affinity). Here is an example:HostA, HostB, HostC...
View ArticleClustering between Windows 2012 Physical Machine to Virtual Machine
HiI am having 1 server with Windows 2012 Data Center Edition , The client of mine is requesting to have a VM on a server running Windows 2012 Standard Edition and to run Clustering between them.The...
View ArticleUnnessary migration occurs when 1 of 3 nodes is shutdown.
Online VMs from node 1 were live migrated to node 2. Then node 1 was patched and rebooted.All of the VMs on node 2 migrated to node 3.Why would this happen since node 2 and node 3 were not rebooted?
View ArticleClustering between Windows 2012 Physical Machine to Virtual Machine
HiPresently we have 1 server with Windows 2012 DataCenter Edition(Used for Internal Application),Would appreciate if somebody could answer the possibilities of the below "The Environment include a...
View ArticlePowershell Get-Cluster "A remote API error occurred"
I'm having an issue on my network where Powershell is returning the following error when invoking the command Get-Cluster:get-cluster -domain mgmt.local Get-Cluster : Could not retrieve the list of...
View ArticleVirtual Machines, Failover Cluster and SCVMM
Hi,I can't get this clear. I configured successfully a Failover Cluster and now I want to create Virtual Machines. However, when I create a VM in the Failover Cluster, it is not replicated. If I want...
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