Mix Server Standard and Storage Server Standard in one Cluster?
Dear Microsoft Employees,could you please answer the following question:A customer of me plans to deploy a new File Server Cluster. The plan is to deploy 2 physical boxes and 2 virtual Servers as a...
View ArticleCluster Services is DOWN
i have Windows Server 2012 R2 and the cluster services is down if i do restart for it , it will work for 30 Second then go down again when i checked the event viewer i found the main reason behind this...
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Storage Spaces turn into Clustered Storage Spaces when creating WFOC, but...
Hi everybody and thank you in advance. Environment:I have 2 separate servers (physical) each running Windows Server 2012 R2.Each one having its own local storage attached via DAS using HBAs (SATA SSD...
View ArticleCAU Hotfix Plugin - The plug-in argument HotfixRootFolderPath has invalid value
Hi. I have 2012R2 cluster configured for CAU in self-updating mode with both WindowsUpdate and Hotfix plugins. The configuration went fine, however when I try to run CAU using these options, it will...
View ArticleCAU Hotfix Plugin run not rebooting hosts, can not check quorum
I am running 5 Hyper-V 2012 R2 Clusters and working to get CAU running properly with the Hotfix plugin. The updating is working fine, updates are applied appropriately with folder rules for installing...
View ArticleWindows 2012 Cluster with Exchange 2013 DAG
Hi,I have a question regarding Windows 2012 Failover clustering.We have Windows 2012 running with Exchange 2013 DAG. 8 nodes 1 witness server There are few instances where one of the nodes lost the...
View ArticleW2k12R2 failover clustering - can I import existing VMs AFTER creating the...
I have 2 HP DL380's that are running hyper-v on W2K12R2. One machine has a PDC and Exchange 2007 VM and the other has a BDC and file server VM. Both the Exchange VM and file server are connected to...
View ArticleAD-less Cluster Bootstrapping Doesn't Work
We have a Server 2012 R2 Cluster running our production VMs, and were looking at removing the need for our last physical DC. We have two other DCs running as VMs. However testing whether the cluster...
View Articlereplacing storage on failover cluster
Dear all,I have a 2-Nodes Fail-over Cluster running on top of a HP Store Easy 1430 8 TB SATA Storage that needs to be re-installed. I have 4 VMs running there, how do I do?What will happen with the two...
View ArticleWindows Server 2012 R2 Failover Cluster - Network(Production + Management)
Hi All,The our exist setup have one cluster for two Nodes, each node have 4 network interface make two NIC as teaming finally we have for each nodes Two network teaming name [ Management &...
View ArticleHyper-V Replica Issue
Hi Everyone,I got one issue with Hyper-V Replica:From a single-host I am replicating VMs to a Cluster. So far, so good. After adding more Nodes to the Cluster, these can't receive the replication. One...
View ArticleSAS-connected SAN for clustering?
HiI'm looking to create a new Hyper-V cluster for 4 VMs running on two hosts (either host able to handle that load of the 4 VMs of course). I'm planning to use a couple of IBM x3650's with a Storwize...
View Articlecan not start lame cluster
I have a two node cluster, all 2012R2,some day one node system crash in loop boot, therefore I wipe it.today I choose the Stop cluster in failover cluster manager, but I found I can not connect to this...
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Windows 2012 Cluster : sharing tab slow
We have a cluster with Windows Server 2012 R2.When we create a share inside another share, the Sharing tab is very slow to appear (about 2 minutes).We thought it is because the root folder has many...
View ArticleWitness disk - LUN or Disk
HiServer 2012 R2I am wanting to set up Failover clustering with 2 nodes connected to a Dell MD3400 storage array using SAS (not iSCSI). The disks are a mix of SSD and SAS drives and have been...
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Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V Failover Cluster NIC Team "Host Unmanageable" Status
Hi All. I'm trying to troubleshoot an apparent network issue on our 2 node failover cluster, and have found that on one of the nodes, the status of the NIC team is "Host Unmanageable" in Server...
View ArticleSystem configuration information for cluster
I have 2 physical servers. I need to have a failover system so when the first server fails it will activate the second server. What i have done is: On both physical servers i have installed hyper-v and...
View ArticleWindows 2012 R2 2xNode Failover Cluster Drive letter
hi all,Setup 2x Windows 2012 R2 VMs on VMware to host a SQL cluster.I've setup 4x volumes on Dell Equallogic and presented them to the VMs (DB, DBBackups, DBLogs and Quorum). Brought the disks online,...
View ArticleHyper-V cluster - 500VM's + - clussvc.exe - CPU usage
HiWe have multiple hyper-V clusters running on 2012R2In the largest cluster, 13 nodes, 500 vm's, clussvc.exe uses about 25-30% CPU, and there is a good amount of network traffic between all the nodes....
View ArticleFailover Cluster logs missing??
Hi Gents,I have a cluster in hyper v 2012 r2 environment and i notice our logs (Failover Cluster > Diagnostic) are lost unexplained when i tried to review it. I have no rational explanation for...
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