High latency
Hi,I encountered weird situation where high latency happened when I ping to ip address of Windows Failover Cluster (WFC) and SQL Instance. The ping resulted return average 10-15ms However, when I ping...
View ArticleKMS Service High Availability
All,I have two Machine with windows server 2012 R2 DC and connected with Failover cluster. " Is it possible to make High Availability for (Volume Activation Services) KMS through Microsoft Failover...
View ArticleCluster and SAN Configuring Hard Drives
Good evening, I have implemented a new Dell Compellent and Windows Server environment with the intention of setting a cluster. I have configured the servers to connect to the SANs and they see each...
View ArticleCSV and live migration from another server not in cluster
Good evening, I created a CSV in a server 2012 hyper V set up with failover clustering so that they could all share the same disk in order to create VMs and live migrate that way. My question is if it...
View Articlelive migrating from a non-csv to a cluster share volume Windows server 2012 r2
Good evening, I am trying to migrate a VM and it's VHDs from a local storage to a CSV; but when I perform it, it fails with not enough space even though there is more then enough in the CSV. I read...
View ArticleWeb Server 2012 Failover
Hello,I will have a new web server and was wondering what are my options with setting up a failover. I want to be able to failover to the secondary web server while doing application updates on the...
View ArticleNetwork Load Balancer -- Multicast VIP is not able to ping from outside VLAN
I configured NLB on Windows 2012 with Multicast setting. I am not able to pingNLB virtual IP from outside VLAN. However I am able to ping dedicated IP on machines from outside VLAN.Any comment will be...
View ArticleRebuilding CSV Volume
I have a 3 host Hyper-V 2008 R2 cluster with iSCSI storage on the back end. There are 3 CSV volumes. Two of the volumes were created properly, but I need to rebuild the 3rd. I didn't have enough...
View ArticleEquallogic VSS Requestor Memory Leak( HIT KIT 4.8 Windows)
Hello,I have a 8 node cluster (W2K12R2) with Equallogic VSS service( EqlReqService.exe) on each node ( Dell PowerEdge M620) utilizing +/- 20Gb of memory. The only workaround i have is to restart the...
View ArticleExtending Clustered Drives
Hi All,We have a request to extend one of the clustered drives on an SQL 2008 Cluster hosted on windows 2008 r2. We will follow the below steps to extend it. Kindly let us know if these are correct...
View ArticleClustering Active Directory Certificate Services
We have a 3rd party application that can only handle a single issuing CA but that CA needs to be highly available. There are several good resources online for ADCS, Clustering ADCS, and Two-Tier PKI...
View ArticleWindows server 2012 R2 clustering between physical workstation and VM node
Dear all,Now i have a physical server and virtual machine both installed with windows server 2012 R2, did it possible to build a cluster environment on physical server with one virtual machine. (Note:...
View Article2 node server 2012 R2 file cluster goes offline when i change nodes
I have a 2 node cluster.2 - server running clustering with file server service installed. both are inside vSphere 6.0u2 hosted in a UCS blade system. Both have 2 nics, 1 for client communications with...
View ArticleWorth upgrading HyperV cluster from 2012 to 2012 R2 at this point?
Just wondering peoples take on this. Its a long discussion at work that is had frequently. We are stable so it seems kind of crazy to tempt fate.
View Article2012 R2 Cluster - Active Node ejects all other nodes - random times
ISSUEWe have a 4 node 2012 R2 Cluster - Active\Passive \File Share\ and Passive DR ServerOur issue is that our active node appears to be losing all cluster communication and is ejecting all other...
View ArticleCannot create checkpoint on cluster, access denied (solved, but request for...
Hi, we have a 3 node hyper-v cluster windows server 2012 R2. They have shared iscsi disks. When I want to create a checkpoint, I get the following:Error (12700) VMM cannot complete the host operation...
View ArticleHyper-V 2012 host keeps pausing
I'm working with a 6 node Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V failover cluster. One of the hosts was recently paused (using failover cluster manager) for some maintenance. (configured the delayed ack for the...
View ArticleNew-Cluster failed
I tried to execute the following statement to try to create a cluster from three notes and use 10.41.7.99 for the cluster, but it failed and hope someone could help. I am new to cluster and welcome...
View ArticleFailover cluster server - File Server role is clustered - Shadow copies do...
Hi,New to 2012 and implementing a clustered environment for our File Services role. Have got to a point where I have successfully configured the Shadow copy settings.Have a large (15tb) disk. S:Have...
View ArticleServer 2012 R2 Hyper-V Cluster - Losing connectivity to vLANs
Hi Everybody,I am experiencing a strange issue with a Server 2012 R2 Hypervisor. There are two physical NICs teamed (one from on-board and one from expansion board), this team is assigned to a hyper-v...
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