Connect servers to storage using FC: switch or direct attach ?
My scenario:I have a DS3400 DISK SYSTEM DUAL CONTROLLER FIBRE CHANNEL storage equipped with two controllers each equipped with two 4-GBPS FC ports, for a total of four FC ports.Then I have four servers...
View ArticleMPIO versions for Windows 2008 SP1 and R2?
Where can I find a list of the latest versions numbers of MPIO for Windows 2008 SP1 and R2?
View ArticleHyper-V Cluster tries to use wrong interface
Hello,I have a Hyper-V Cluster (2012 R2) with 2 nodes.Each node has 3 NICs:Data & Management (Domainnetwork) - 10.8.16.0/22Cluster (Cluster communication only) - VLAN 2 - 10.8.90.0/24Live Migration...
View ArticleGuest VM simultaneous failover
Hi,It is a requirement within our environment for certain guest VM's to always be located on the same node of a cluster as each other, so if one is migrated off, the other moves with it. Essentially...
View ArticlePowerShell Get-Cluster Remote API Error
I am running a powershell script to get cluster information. The script works perfectly sometimes but sometimes fails on the get-cluster -domain command. It will fail and then maybe a half hour later...
View ArticleNLB configuration file/registry path of a cluster? Malicious configuration...
Hey guys,we are running a NLB cluster on two Windows Server 2008 R2. Now we've tried to add another host to this cluster.The new host is an Windows Server 2012 R2. (I know, that was a bad idea to try...
View ArticleBACKup VMs to Remote site (DR) + Storage device (Same site)
friends i want to understand the best practices of taking the backup of VMs on a hyperV cluster.Scenario is if we have a hyperV cluster with different kind of work loads runnign on windows 2008 R2 Sp1...
View Articlemigration of 2008R2 cluster to 2012 R2
friends apologies if this has been discussed number of times...i have a 2008R2 cluster running which is not connected to internetnow i understand there are many reasons for me to upgrade but i cant...
View ArticleCluster VMs sometime fail while doing an export-vm
I'm using a powershell script to export some Clustered (2012 R2 Hyper-V) VMs through task scheduler. Every now and then a VM is restarted by cluster during the export-vm. The errors found from the...
View ArticleCluster network name resource 'Cluster Name' failed registration of one or...
Hi ,we have configured Windows server 2012 R2 Failover Cluster to run SQL Server 2012 (Always On Availability Group) . we are getting below error in Cluster events of Failover Cluster Manager (in...
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Hyper-V cluster not started
The situation is such. There is Hyper-V cluster from three Windows Server 2012 servers. The general disk subsystem is connected as iSCSI. All this worked without failures.It was required to transport...
View ArticleNetworking hyper-v cluster
Hi,I am coming from a vmware environment to hyper-v and building a two-node cluster with shared storage and I have some questions regarding NIC configuration. My hosts have 8 nics each. I was planning...
View ArticleSQL database instance on passive node goes to hung state when FSW become...
Hello Team,I have configured fail-over clustering on two virtual nodes having Windows 2012 R2 Operating system. On windows cluster i have configured SQL server SQL Server Always-On Availability groups....
View ArticleCluster Management not working
Hello everyone,since today in the morning one of our Failover Clusters could not be managed anymore:- Hyper-V Manager is not showing VMs - Failover Cluster Manager does not connect to the Cluster -...
View ArticleManaged switch for IGMP multicast NLB
Which affordable fully managed gigabit switch supports MS Network Load Balancing in IGMP multicast mode?
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Hyper-V iSCSI Target
hi,This is my first time I'm trying to use clustering using Microsoft iSCSI Target. I've setup all the settings on iSCSI Target according to few tutorials and they in demo's all Initiators are...
View ArticleUnable to ping resource after failing it over to second node
Hi..I have created a cluster with 2 nodes(node1,node2) and configured 2 resources(resource1,resource2) on it.Am able to ping the resource1 on both nodes.But for resource2,am able to ping it only when...
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CSV showing - backup in progress, redirected Access
friends ...i was testing Veeam B&R and as the backup was taking much time i had to stop it in between now my CSVs are showing backup in progress, redirected access. I tried all the options like...
View ArticleCanot Add Storage Pool to Signle Node Cluster
Hi. I want to prepare environment (Windows 2012R2) to serve SoFS on Storage Pool. At the beginning I would like to setup FailoverCluster witch SoFS service only on One node, and if everything will be...
View ArticleClustering Different Versions of Hyper-V 2012
I have 3 servers. 2 of which have Server 2012 Standard edition w/ Hyper-V Role and 1 Hyper-V 2012 Server. When I run the cluster validation wizard, I get:Validate Operating System Installation...
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