Moving CSVs from 2008 R2 to 2012 R2 cluster?
Hello,we have an old 2008 R2 H-V cluster with data on CSVs (on iSCSI SAN) and we need to move them to 2012 R2 cluster.I'm aware of other migration paths and supported/unsupported scenarios, but my...
View ArticleFailover cluster cannot upgrade functional level
Attempting to do a rolling upgrade of a Windows Server 2012 R2 cluster to 2016. Our first test cluster upgraded fine. This one is failing. I've highlighted to lines from get-cluster that are...
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Resolve DNS command returns different IP addresses
Hi folks, I have a failover cluster with two nodes. Both machines are ESXi VMs with two network adapters: first one public and the second one is private. Settings of private network: Settings of public...
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MPIO and CSVs
To start off i noticed that I am not getting any traffic over my redundant ISCI path to the EMC SAN. I have worked with HA clusters but this is a first with Hyper-V clusters. I am fairly new to this...
View ArticleBest Way to Create Two Node Cluster if 1 Node Already Has VM's
Hello Everyone,We have 2 HP ProLiant DL380 Gen 9 servers. I'm in the process of upgrading the servers from Server 2012 R2 Datacenter to Windows Server 2016 Datacenter. Each server has 20) 900 GB SAS...
View ArticleScript Not Working in Cluster
I'm trying to understand why the script I have setup isn't working properly. It appears to work fine outside of the cluster but doesn't kill the processes I'm wanting to kill.I have a service I want to...
View ArticleHyper-V 2012 R2 Clustering HA - SQL 2014
HEllo,I recently configured Hyper-V 2012 R2 Clustering HA with 2 baremetal nodes and EMC storage attached. I need to configure a SQL environment and need some guidance on design. do i create one VM for...
View ArticleAdd node as mult-site
Hello,I have a two node Windows Cluster setup for the purpose of SQL AlwaysOn which works fine. I have a single network card on each server which handles all communication, we understand the risks and...
View ArticleClient network goes down after a WAN lost on a multisubnet cluster
I created a 2 nodes Windows 2012 R2 cluster for SQL AlwaysOn + file share witness. Running on Esxi 5.5 update 2. Each node is hosted on a different host. Each node has two NICs, one for client...
View ArticleNetwork Drops for 30 seconds During Hyper-V Live Migration
I have 3 physical Hyper-V hosts setup with clustered storage. I disabled VMQ because I was getting errors when trying to do live migrations. I have also ran the network portion of the cluster...
View ArticleClusters, odd, even, active, passive, san
what is active, passive clustering ? if any other type of cluster available ? means one mode host or node needs to offline means one node will be active at a time?how to setup cluster for print , file...
View ArticleLive migration of one host drops 10 pings and times out machine connection...
I'm running a HA Hyper-v cluster of 2 Nodes on Server 2012 R2. I have a team of 4 network adaptors for LAN traffic and a team of 4 network adaptors for iSCSI traffic to the CSVs. Everything was fine...
View ArticleError: The computer is joined to cluster when creating the Cluster
Hello Guys, I have created a cluster to configure Hyper-V for 2 Nods, everything was greate and works perfectly, next day the storage hang and the cluster didn't work any more, I have destroyed the...
View ArticleServer partially hangs during ISCSI failover for 30 seconds
Hi Everyone,I've been doing disaster recovery tests on my Hyper-V cluster and have found that it takes around 30 seconds for my ISCSI traffic to fail over. Is this normal or should it be...
View ArticleReplace of node in SQL Failover Cluster
HelloWe have a 2-node SQL server failover cluster running Windows Server 2012 R2 and SQL Server 2008 R2 standard.We need to replace one of the node, with a new server.I am a little uncertain on the...
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correct method of configuring failover cluster backup IP - windows 2012 R2
Hi All,Please find below steps we are following in our setup to configure failover cluster backup IP....can anyone let us know if that is the correct one. Right click on role, and add the backup IP as...
View ArticleStretch Clustering with Replication
I want to know if I am able to achieve with Server 2016 Datacenter Stretch clustering with replication on the following hardware / VMs:I have two supermicro storage servers with Server 2016 installed...
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CSV volume showing 10 gigs free of 750 gigs- new volume
Hello, I setup a CSV volume and nothing is in the folder yet, however it's showing showing 10 gigs free of 750 gigs. Any reason why?
View ArticleStorage Replica -- how to replicate from one storage pool to another on the...
Have a S2D cluster with SSD/NVME. I also have SAN storage available to the same cluster. I want to replicate volumes from the S2D pool to SAN storage for backup purposes. How to? When i use FCM to...
View ArticleHybrid HyperV Cluster
Hi thereDespite of the Validation process, can I create a HyperV Fail over cluster with one physical node, on premise and another node on Azure ?I thank you for your time
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