Multiple Clusters in Private Cloud
Dear All.....What would be desirable/recommended in a Private Cloud setup.....To have a single cluster with N number of nodes with N number of CSV.....OR Multiple Clusters with limited number of nodes...
View ArticleCSV Best Practices
IOPS are the deciding factor when it comes to single CSV or multiple CSV.....if IOPS required by VMs hosted on the CSV are enough then one CSV is good enough and easy to manage.....and if the workload...
View ArticleWindows 2008 R2 SP1 Exchange DAG event 1196 and 1579 Bad DNS Key
Hi,I'm running an Exchange 2010 SP1 DAG on Windows 2008 R2 SP1. We are using an INFOBLOX appliance for DNS resolution.DNS resolution is working and SRV records are created.On one of the two...
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 ArticleExchange 2010 CAS NLB doesn't show all nodes
Hello.I have installed two Exchange 2010 CAS-HUB Server in a cas array under Windows 2012. I have deployed NLB in both servers. Few days ago, only the node where I'm logged in has shown on NLB...
View ArticleCluster Network Configuration
I have 3 DL385 servers with 4 10G Nic's in a server 2012 Cluster for Hyper-VI have it setup with 2 teams, Access and Data teams. The access team is on a routable vlan that all the other vlans can...
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Inactive node's NTBACKUP not running pointing to error in VSS
HiIn a cluster environment , one node which is INACTIVE (Windows Server 2003 Ent.64 bit), while executing the NTBACKUP command the following errors occur and unable to perform the backupAny help is...
View Articlefailover cluster wmi provider detected an invalid character
We are getting this recurring error in our two node hyper-v cluster:ID: 6237 Source: FailoverClustering-WMIProviderLogs anywhere from 1- 15 of these errors every half hour. We are running on Server...
View ArticleClustered 2-node iSCSI target server
I'm having some problems getting this running. I've got two IBM blades, both of which have the Cluster and iSCSI target roles installed. I have created two virtual disks on the first blade for iSCSI...
View Articleserver 2012 clustering
I have a 2 node cluster and need to see if I set it up correctly:server 2012---------------------------------------------------server1 nic1 IP 10.10.1.100 10gb publicserver1 nic2 IP 10.10.1.200 10gb...
View ArticleCluster Drive letter missing after failover
Hi Everyone,I have a 2 node file cluster on windows server 2008 R2 SP1, was well working before. However since few days its giving me trouble. Node1=FS01Node2=FS02when ever there is a failover from...
View ArticleWindows 2012 Failover Cluster Manager does not correctly reflect expanded...
Hello, I have a Failover Cluster setup comprising of 5 Windows 2012 nodes. All my Virtual machines are created on CSV volumes. I recently had to expand the size of a CSV volume from the SAN side....
View ArticleMaximum LUNS in Hyper-V 2012 Cluster
Hi,In Hyper-V 2008 R2, I was told that "Windows does not have a great track record managing many LUNs. From experience we see scale issues anywhere at 150 LUNs and above."I was also told "MSFT is...
View ArticleSQL 2008 Active/Passive Cluster - ISCSI connectivity
I have an active/passive cluster that's been running fine for years. I recently upgraded both front end server and added another processor and bank of memory. that went completely smoothly and all...
View ArticleWindows failover cluster Ready for SAP ERP
Hi, we have configured windows failover cluster 2008 r2 sp2 2 node on physical environment we have not used any virtual environment i.e hyper - v, vmware ..... Now i need two virtual ip's for...
View ArticleHow to create a Shared Drive (CSV) in Hyper - V 2012
Hi,I pretty new with the Hyper - V (Windows Server 2012 Data Centre) and all my VM's are hosted in Hyper - V.My Cluster VM's are also on the same Hyper - VI want to configure a failover cluster setup,...
View Articleidentifying cluster disks in validation report
Hi, we have a 2008 R2 Hyper-V cluster. When configuring CSV volumes, we rename the cluster disk label to something like CSV1, CSV2 etc. from the default cluster-assigned labels like "Cluster disk 1",...
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Cluster Manager test fails on Storage Section
Running the test for cluster failover and I am not sure if I can proceed to create the cluster with the error that I have. I understand that there is no failover for the local machine's C: Drive...
View ArticleMSCluster_DiskPartition returns "empty" VolumeGuid for disks in maintenance mode
Hi, For my application it is crucial to know volume GUID of the cluster volume. However when I turn on maintenance mode for the disk WMI's MSCluster_DiskPartition reports empty (all zeros) GUID for...
View ArticleAn error occurred while attempting to bring the resource cluster name online
I have a new 2 server 2008R2 datacenter cluster with hyper-v on it that seems to be working fine except an error under cluster core resources, cluster name that shows as failed. When I try to being it...
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