P2V of Windows 2008 R2 SQL clustered servers
HiWe are planning to do P2V for existing Windows 2008 R2 / SQL 2008 clusters hosts (In test lab we did it successfully). We concerned about a few points:a) In case of failure / application issues we...
View ArticleFailover Cluster Manager - Network Not Showing
I have two team network setup. One is called MGMT and the other is called DATA.In Virtual Switch Manager I have added an external network that uses the DATA network.The only network that is showing in...
View ArticleMultisite clustering and AGs
Hi all,I have been researching WIN 2016 features and new AGs enhancements lately. Need your guidance on the following requirement and proposed hypothesis for my virtual lab purpose. I'd like to ensure...
View ArticleWhat are the Hosts Impact by increasing Cluster Node Number
hi,We are doing some interop testing between Cluster and storages. In some of the cases 3-node cluster is more likely to trigger the issue than 2-node cluster on host side. I'd like to ask from Windows...
View ArticleFailover Cluster volume inaccessible, showing GUID not volume
We have a file cluster on Server 2012 R2 (Fully updated) with a RDM passthrough disk to a Dell Compellent SAN using VMWare ESXi 5.5. Pathing is set to MRU for the RDM. We lost access to the cluster...
View ArticleEventID 10028: DCOM was unable to communicate with the computer X using any...
I have many of those errors in the event view:DCOM was unable to communicate with the computer X using any of the configured protocolsAnd it is correct, because the computer X doesn't exist any more,...
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Windows Failover cluster across datacenter. Node showing down with network...
hi Team,We have 3 node windows cluster running SQL FCI. 2 node are at primary DC and 1 node is at DR . I am observing that node 3 is started showing as down in cluster manager and its networks as...
View ArticleOPS Microsoft Server Medium: The system detected an address conflict for IP...
Hi All,Whenever my cluster resource move from one Node to other I am getting few error/warning message. Can anyone help me to understand why?Cluster 2012R2 Witness File Share Application Cluster: SQL...
View ArticleNetwork Traffic send through Cluster IP
I configured fail over cluster in windows 2012 r2 server. It working fine.But if i send network traffic (ex: telnet) from cluster server to client, it will take Physical IP address and communicate. But...
View ArticleClustered Scheduled Tasks - Problems viewing tasks and how to start manually...
Hi,I'm looking at running af 2-node failover-cluster in Server 2012 and would like to make use of the new cluster scheduled tasks ability. Reading through a lot of guides online, i'm onboard with...
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Create cluster with SOFS
I need create a hyper-v cluster on this hardware:1) Host 1 2) Host 23) Fileserver4) SAN5) Switch 1 Gb/s6) Windows server 2012 R2 standard - 3 LicenseScale-out File server approach for the files server,...
View ArticleHow to create Client Access Point using powershell
Hello Everyone,Please point me a document or script on creating a client access point with IP Address in WSFC using power shell. RegardsSufianMohd Sufian www.sqlship.wordpress.com Please mark the...
View ArticleEventID 5774: The dynamic registration of the DNS record 'X' failed on the...
I have many of those errors in the event viewer and I can understand also because it fails:The dynamic registration of the DNS record 'X' failed on the following DNS server: DNS server IP address:...
View Article[2012 R2 NLB] http clients see 1 timeout when NLB node is stopped
Windows Server 2012 R2 Network Load BalancingTest Environment Configuration:1 Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V host2 Windows Server 2012 R2 VM's acting as the 2 NLB cluster nodeseach node has a management...
View ArticleQuestion about dynamic witness with Windows Server 2012 R2
Hi folks,Happy new year first :-)I just have a question concerning the new behavior of the witness provided by Windows Server 2012 R2.According to the Microsoft documentation I can read: The quorum...
View ArticleCannot create checkpoint when shared vhdset (.vhds) is used by VM - 'not part...
We are trying to deploy 'guest cluster' scenario over HyperV with shared disks set over SOFS. By design .vhds format should fully support backup feature.All machines (HyperV, guest, SOFS) are installed...
View ArticleServer 2012 NFS - 10 minutes to resume after failover?
I've got a Server 2012 Core cluster running an HA file server role with the new NFS service. The role has two associated clustered disks. When I fail the role between nodes, it takes 10-12 minutes for...
View ArticleReclaim disk space after deleting VHD
Hello,There is a case where a Hyper-V cluster is installed. We created an new LUN ,than we moved one VHD from the existing LUN to the new one but the free space is still the same on the first LUN. (...
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 Articlenew failover cluster and hyper-vm migration
We have 2 physical servers that are hosts to all our hyper-vm. We have a 2-node failover cluster setup with all the hyper-vm storage on the clustered storage which is a iSCSI virtual HD. 1. Can we...
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