Windows 2012 R2 - Hyper-V. Shared CSV, iSCSI and SATA.
Hey Guys, I would like to build a 2x Node Hyper-V cluster using a 3rd computer with 6x SATA HDDs as my "Shared Storage". I would like to be able to do things like live migration of one VM from one host...
View ArticleDisaster Recovery - Cluster Configuration
Hi,i have a 3 node CSV cluster that we use for hyper-v. I am preparing our DR solution but unsure about backing up the cluster configuration. If the worst happened and i had to restore our full Veeam...
View ArticleWhy does my cluster name appear to be CLUSTER NAME
Can anyone help? I've setup my failover cluster and I was having issues change the heartbeat TTL. Turns out the my cluster name is "CLUSTER NAME" not the one I thought I'd setup. Why has this...
View Articlemigrate file failover cluster from windows 2003 R2 to a new domain
HiMy company recently bought another small company. This company had windows 2003 R2 failover cluster and now we have to migrate it to windows 2012 R2 cluster.What I have done is got 2 new servers...
View ArticleWindows Failover cluster across datacenter. Understanding Quorum
Hi ,We are planning to have 3 node cluster wherein 2 node will be in primary and 1 node will reside in DR. Node in DR will participate as member of windows cluster extended to DR but will not be an...
View ArticleDifferent revision levels for Microsoft DSM QFE Number
Hello everyone,I am creating a Failover Cluster right now and I'm encountering 'Indicates two revision levels are incompatible' failure after validating. The IBM SDDDSM is doing fine but not with my...
View ArticleNetwork Load Balancing is slow
Hi,We have script for NLB to work like 1 server at a time. when we run the script, it took 43 seconds to finish. Comparing it to other NLB cluster it only took 1 to 4 seconds. both cluster have the...
View ArticleAdministrate 2008 R2 failover cluster from Windows Server 2012 R2
We've deployed a set of Management Servers running Windows Server 2012 R2 which our server department should use to remotely administrate all Windows Servers in the company, which works quite well so...
View ArticleRunning chkdsk casues Cluster Shared Volumes to go offline
Basic setup at Production site:2x Dell R730 running Windows 2012 R2 Standard (Windows updates current as of June 2016). Cluster passed Validation tests, with the exception of some warnings due to iSCSI...
View ArticleCannot add a second node!
Hi I have a two node hyper-v cluster that i am running. One of my node failed (crashed) , I reinstalled my server, setup as it was before the crash occured. I tried to re-add it bu it keeps falling...
View ArticleReplace Shared Physical Disk Windows Server 2008 R2 Cluster
Hi Experts,I am panning to replace physical disk resources in a SQL DB cluster ( Win 2k8 ) after the data is copied to alternate disks , I had done this kind of operation in Win 2003 cluster and that...
View ArticleDuplicate Services in Cluster
I have an issue where if a service is started manually on a cluster node the Cluster Service will not bring it down and I end up with duplicates of services running across Cluster Nodes. is there not...
View ArticleError adding a disk to cluster
Hi,I am using Windows 2012. I just finished building a 2 nodes cluster.I want to add an iscsi disk to the cluster, so I used the iscsi initiator on both nodes to connect the disk. I initiated the disk...
View ArticleAny beter way to do it?
2 node cluster windows 2008 r2 with node and file witness share the cluster resource (DHCP) is on cluster disk F now, we need to decommision the storage which holds file share and cluster disk. We need...
View ArticleReplace a physical disk resource in a Windows 2003 SQL cluster
Hello All. I am in a situation where I need to replace a SAN disk in windows 2003 SQL cluster with a another disk with larger size. I cannot go for an expansion of the drive. here is my plan but since...
View ArticleFile Share Witness on DFS
HiIs it supported by Microsoft to place a File Share Witness on a DFS Share in Windows Server 2012 R2 (Not DFS-R involved). All I have found is some documentation for Windows Server 2008 R2 that states...
View ArticleChanging Management IP of Cluster Nodes
So, i need to change the Management IPs of ever Node in my 8 Node HV Cluster.Can i just take the nodes into maintainance mode and change the IP (going to be a different subnet) and set them available...
View Article2012 R2 hangs on 'Forming Cluster' or error 1460 from cluster.exe
I am trying to build a 2 node cluster however it hangs on 'Forming Cluster' in the wizard. If I try via the cluster.exe command, it gets to '52% Forming Cluster' then errors with 1460 which I believe...
View ArticleBackup Slowed Down After Failover Cluster
Hello, After creating a failover cluster on two Windows server 2012 R2 nodes and created 5 VM roles, using ISCSI for the network and VSA for the shared storage, we have a problem: Veam backup slowed...
View ArticleDefine Timeout for CSVs / IO-Queue-Time?
I am running a HyperV cluster on 2 nodes, which utilize a HA-NAS-Cluster to store Virtualmachines and their disks.The NAS-Cluster itself has build in failover features which works nice, but failover...
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