Replication of VMs with shared VHDX is not supported
A typical Microsoft half baked solution (shared vhdx) - can use them, but nothing else, no backup, no replication.Obviously for DR purposes that is unacceptable!How can I DR my environment offsite when...
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Unable to move Cluster role to any other node.
I have a 3 node windows failover cluster which hosts 2 SQL instances and MSDTC cluster role.The problem I'm having is I'm unable to move a clustered role (SQLV02_GRP) to any other node. The preferred...
View ArticleCluster Service terminated by GUM Task
I've had an issue where one of my Windows 2012 R2 Hyper-V hosts just decided to keel over and die on me. The event which I'm seeing is as follows:Log Name: System Source:...
View ArticleCluster security handshake between joiner and sponsor did not complete in...
here we using Windows 2008R2 Enterprise SP1. Clustering SQL server services. recently I see intermittent error Event 1282Cluster security handshake between joiner and sponsor did not complete in 30...
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Cluster Validation Wizard Brings non-Clustered Disk Offline
I have a two-node cluster. One node member has a large number of individual disks (no RAID) while the other node has the OS disk and a 2-disk Storage Pool. The CSV is purely used for a single VM that...
View ArticleWindows 2008 R2 DFS cluster nodes network issues after Convenience rollup...
The last couple of days we have seen issues on Windows 2008 R2 clusters. The symptoms on the servers are: -The system evenlog is filled with DistributedCOM errors. -The starting events is a Tcpip...
View Articlewin2k16 storage replica 2 node stretched cluster, cannot add disks
Hi all,I have a 2 node storage replica stretched cluster, but I cannot add the local disk to the cluster. My hw config is:- HP DL380Gen9 with P440 Array controller, one channel for 22 x 1.2TB SAS...
View ArticleIs it possible to create Cluster Storage Volumes using only Hyper-V 2016 Core...
Is it possible to create Cluster Storage Volumes using only Hyper-V 2016 Core without a license for Windows Server 2016?We are setting up a Dell SCv2020 storage array with redundant iSCSI controller...
View ArticleStorage Spaces Direct -- nonpaged pool exhaustion?
I have about 600,000 pdf files that exist in 8 vhd files, which i am mounting (right click -> mount) and copying to a storage spaces direct cluster disk as individual files. When using robocopy...
View ArticleSetting NLB with different hardware specification
Hi All,I want to ask how to make best setting NLB with different hardware specification.ie. I have 2 servers and these will be on one cluster & NLB, server A has 32 GB and server B has 16 GB memory...
View ArticleWin2k16 - Quorum Type Missing - Lab Cluster created with W10 Hyper-V and Nano...
Hi Folks Using Windows 10 Hyper-V as the host, I have built a 2016 Server 2 node cluster lab as follows:1 x Domain Controller (Full Server, Failover Cluster Manager installed here)2 x Cluster Nodes...
View ArticleDR node 3 showinf as down with its network unavailable. Any threshold
Hi Team, We have WSFC between Primary and DR sites. 2 nodes in primary and 1 node in DR. Unfortunately, node 3 goes down very frequently and we are not able to detect the root cause. Even if primary...
View ArticleFailover cluster server - File Server role is clustered - Shadow copies do...
Hi,New to 2012 and implementing a clustered environment for our File Services role. Have got to a point where I have successfully configured the Shadow copy settings.Have a large (15tb) disk. S:Have...
View Articleconvert 2 nodes cluster to standalone
Hi,I'd like to convert 2 nodes cluster (2008 server) to a standalonde server :- move all services to one node (node1)- stop node 2- delete node2 from cluster- delete cluster role from node 2and then, I...
View ArticleLoad Balancing
Question with Window Server 2012 Network Load balancing My port range is set From 2000 to 2050, when I send file through port 2008 to cluster, will the file reallocate to other port or still will...
View ArticleClustering 2 Windows 2003 Server machines
Hi, I have Win 2003 machine which has 2 application with databases respectively - they're 3rd party applications. For now I've got one machine with RAID 1 configured, but if something fails I want to...
View ArticleWSFC Virtual IPs and GARP
Where I work we are setting up a new system and I am experiencing a problem I am hoping others have experienced and can offer some recommendations on. I have setup a new Windows Server 2012 R2 2-node...
View ArticleCluster Aware Updating Corruption
Hi everyone!We're getting the below error when a CAU run occurs for one cluster in particular (all the other clusters are fine).CAU run {00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000} on cluster vc11 failed....
View ArticleSQL Server 2008 r2 failed on Windows Server 2012
Hi AllI have a Windows 2012 Server and i want to install cluster SQL 2008 R2 I validate my configration without any error and i create my cluster windows without any problem,I create also DTC role and...
View ArticleStorage Spaces Direct Windows Server 2016 Lab Testing physical disks issue
alright folks , first of all thanks for the help if i get a answer.we are always on the look to test out some new stuff and this time we want to test Storage Spaces Direct,in case it proves to be good...
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