Service and Application clustering
I'm old school - cluster to me means a common name, common IP address, and common disk - with common resourcesAfter cluster verification, and cluster creation, attempts to configure an Service/...
View ArticleHyper-V cluster with team links to CISCO 500GX stack does not work with...
We are currently having a problem with our high availability environment whereby the cluster loses quorum and all the VMs reboot when the CISCO master is power cycled. The relevant components in the...
View Articleconnect to shared folder from Windows cluster
I have a windows server 2012 R2 Cluster behind Firewall and I want to connect to a Shared Folder on an external server. I will need to allow port 139 and 445 on the firewall but I don't know which ip...
View ArticleFailover Cluster for Multi-Site and Multi-Subnets
Hi,I have threes sites with different networks connected to each other by a firewall (Cisco Firewall) in each site and doing NAT.During the process of creating cluster, we can't add the other two...
View ArticleKeep Storage Pool "off the cluster"?
Hello,I'm running a hypervcluster with 2 nodes and 3 external NAS for ISCSI-Storage. Each node itself has a couple of Disks, which I want to "dedicate" to backups of the vms. (So each node will make...
View ArticleVM HA during core switch reboot
Hi,12 Node Cluster 2012 R2 Hyper-V Cluster Blade servers across multiple blade enclosures Each blade enclosure has 2 network switches (Dell IOA) connected to one core switch in a LACP LAG 2 core...
View Article(0x0000009E) netft.sys is the cause for the bugchk blue screen on the server...
Hi we have the server getting rebooted by a bugchk error for netft.sys(0x0000009E) Please let me know if we have any fix for this issue. i am not sure wht is causing the issue on the server the server...
View Articlenew-cluster: name "xyz" is already in use in active directory =events 4631 4657
I am stuck while creating just another 2012 R2 FailoverCluster.The clustertest-report ist 100% fine, no errors no warnings, but every time I try to create the cluster I do get the error:"The name "XYZ"...
View ArticleSOFS won't failover on other node
Hi IT folks,Just want to seek your help regarding my SOFS setup on my lab. I have setup 2 node cluster, and everything seems to work. On my SOFS file share, I put a video file and plays it somewhere on...
View ArticleBuild a cluster using DC as a node
Hi, there.Here is the question: - A customer asked about using a server cluster:The environment uses a stand-alone Windows 2012 Server, which moves Active Directory, DNS Services and file storage.Can...
View ArticleStuck with Redirected Access?
I'm running a HyperV Cluster on 2012 R2. Each node is connected to the "network" with 2 nics (LACP) and to the ISCSINetwork with 4 nics, using MPIO. (usually) For one node, the 4-nic-card just died,...
View ArticleHyper V hosts and NUMA
So i have Dell R730 machines with 2 * Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2699 v3 CPU.using Get-VMHostNumaNodegives meNodeId : 0 ProcessorsAvailability : {0, 0, 0, 0...} MemoryAvailable :...
View Articlecluster-aware updating - optional updates
Cluster-aware updating is running OK on windows server 2012 except that the optional updates are not being installed. In the configuration for cluster-aware updating I have "give me recommended...
View ArticleHyper V Hosts - Local Storage
So, i have 3*2TB HDDs in every node of my HV Cluster (Server 2012 R2). These are mostly unused atm.But i would like to utilize them to be available in the cluster, for example as a volume where i can...
View ArticleIssue with Cluster IP assigned by DHCP
Hi All,When I try to create a cluster from 2 nodes with windows 2012 R2 (which have a DHCP configured) the cluster IP assigns one of the nodes IP and fails to become online.I'm getting the 1049 event...
View ArticleHyper-V Replica Storage for Reverse Replication
HiA short summary:I'm running a 2 node Hyper-V Failover Cluster based on Windows Server 2012 R2. I have our VMs stored at 4 different CSVs. This setup has already been running fine for a few years.At...
View ArticleCreating Folder Shares in a CAFS environment
I am building an extensive Continuously Available File Server environment. I am setting up users Home directory's in this location. I share the folder with permissions to the user and domain admin...
View ArticleCustom Service on Cluster Server (Windows Server 2012 R2)
I have a custom windows service installed on both of my nodes (Active-Passive) in Windows Server 2012 R2 servers. This service is hosted in an port 3001 in both the nodes. I have IIS in both nodes...
View ArticleiSCSI wizard hangs in my VM, why?
hi there,I am running three VMs in my host (Windows 7 OS, 64 bit, 8GB RAM). My goal is create a cluster between node 2 (2012 DataCenter OS) and node 3 (2008 R2 Enterprise). Due to I am at home as the...
View ArticleThe RPC server is unavailable on the specified computer
Hi,I've configured two Adfs servers and joined them in farm.Primary - adfs1secondary - adfs2I've added Network Load balancing features in both the servers.In primary server I've created a cluster and...
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