Who holds roles when cluster nodes communication is interrupted ?
Hi All,This is a basic question, i always thought it's a one, but only today, i encountered a situation where i was unable to figure out the result.Suppose that:- We have a two nodes failover cluster...
View ArticleScale Out File Servers for IIS .NET Data
Hello,I am having a difficult time finding a direct answer online about whether or not my specific scenario warrants the use of an SOFS cluster, or just a traditional File Server cluster....
View ArticleHow to take Cluster Quorum drive backup in Windows 2008
Dear All,We have Windows 2008 Enterprise Failover cluster environment, I want to know do I need to take quorum drive backup and is it safe to take backup while servers are online. can anyone please...
View ArticleAccess is denied messages in Win2012 R2 Failover Cluster validation report...
Been having some issues with nodes basically dropping out of clusters config. Error showing was"Cluster Shared Volume 'Volume1' ('Data') has entered a paused state because of '(c000020c)'. All I/O will...
View Articlehow to remove a node from nlb at runtime?
hello,i need to temporally exclude a node from an nlb.May happen that a server is up and working but the web application i'm balancing is out of sinch with the same application in the others nodes.Eg....
View Articleevent id 6237 on a Hyper-V cluster
Hi. We're getting error with event it 6237 (source FailoverClustering-WMIProvider) on a 2008 R2 SP1 Hyper-V cluster.There was an older thread...
View ArticleRemoving dfs namespace gives error "dfs_cluster: The cluster file share...
We have a Microsoft cluster running on 2 Server Enterprise 2008R2 Servers with the FileServices Roles (including DFS roles). We have 3 Standalone DFS namespaces (roots) which have been up and running...
View Article2012R2 Cluster "Protected Network" not working / no failover
hi,I have two 2012R2 hosts running in a cluster. Hardware is exactly the same. I created a Virtual Network on both Hyper-V managers. Live migration is correctly working.However i was testing one of the...
View ArticleWindows 2012 R2 cluster nodes hanging frequently
Hello all,Expecting better performance and stability, we cretaed a new failover cluster in windows 2012 R2 with 3 hp BL460 G8 servers and SAN storage. But it seems that even a folder movement or...
View Article2008 R2 Multi-Site Cluster Possible without Third Party Software?
2008 R2 Multi-Site Cluster Possible without Third Party Software? I know it has been asked, but I haven't seen a specific answer. We are using Dell Compellent Storage and I created several read only...
View ArticleCuster dependency in Domain
Hi,I have come across a confusing questionOne of our customer environment is having only one Windows 2008 Domain Controller in entrire FOrest and Domain. We know that its design problem which need to...
View ArticleServer 2008 Cluster Random failover occuring on Fileserver Resource
We have a 2 node active/passive 2008 Sql Cluster that also has a fileshare on it that randomly fails over. We get events Events from Cluster Admin Event ID 1230cluster resource...
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The requested object does not exist. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80010114)
Hello,I have a 3 node cluster that is setup as active, active, passive. Two of the nodes report the following error when trying to connect to the cluster:One of the active nodes is successfully able...
View ArticleRhsCall::DeadlockMonitor: Call ONLINERESOURCE timed out for resource
Hi,We have a two node Windows Server 2008 R2 Cluster, which is experiencing issues on failover. Everything is currently running on Node 2, however we are no longer able to failover to Node 1. In the...
View ArticleServer 2012 - CSV & RAID Advice
Ok, Dell VRTX server with 2 blades. Primary storage will be 10 x 600Gb 10k SAS drives.Planning on running Hyper-V cluster to host primary file server, print server, SQL, Sharepoint etc for mid sized...
View Articleroute add/delete broke my networking
I have run into a networking problem on my cluster, and I cannot figure out what changed.I had a cluster configured and working. Its access network is 192.168.10.0/24. I have other networks,...
View ArticleHyper-V Clustering - Cluster Storage
I have created a Hyper V failover Clustering between 2 nodes. On both nodes in C drive it created a folder ClusterStorage where i will store the Virtual Machine on. But i get an error that the user...
View ArticleHow to move cluster Hyper-V computer object to another ou in AD
2 Hyper-V hosts (2012 R2 DC) in Cluster configCluster got created BEFORE Hyper-V hosts AD Computer Objects got moved to a proper desired OUIs there a way to move Hyper-V host AD objects now?Will...
View ArticleSystem error 1460 has occurred (0x000005b4). when trying to create two-node...
I'm trying to create a brand new two node Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise 64bit cluster. When I try with the GUI I get the following:An error occurred while creating the cluster.An error occurred creating...
View ArticleMultipath driver updates required
I need to update Multi-path drivers on my Windows server 2008 Standred 64bit Service Pack 2. I am installing netapp_windows_host_utilities_6.0.2_x64.msi on my server and it's giving me error:{The...
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