2016 S2D Cluster, SMB failover not working
Hi,we have a 3-node 2016 S2D Cluster on Dell 730xd with 12x4TB SATA and 4x480GB SSD pools/tiers installed according to a guide by Lenovo. Everything clusterwise is working well, except if we have a SMB...
View ArticleNode in cluster - status changes to "paused"
We have seven Windows 2012 R2 nodes in a Hyper-V cluster. They are all identical hardware (HP BladeSystem). For a while, we had only six nodes, and there were no problems.Recently, we added the seventh...
View ArticleScheduler task should run on cluster servers !
Hi Guys, Hope you all doing good. I have payment related scheduler is running on only one server, which need to configure in Cluster level. As we need redundancy on scheduler , if one node is down...
View ArticleHyper-V NLB VIP unable to ping from some clients
Hi Allwe are developing distribution applications, it's heavy rely on windows NLB to provider load balance function. I deployed 11 NLB instances, all NLB nodes are Hyper-V VM. all VM and V-Host both...
View ArticleHyper-V NLB VIP cannot ping from some clients
Hi Allwe are developing distribution applications, it's heavy rely on windows NLB to provider load balance function. I deployed 11 NLB instances, all NLB nodes are Hyper-V VM. all VM and V-Host both...
View Articlemini HA basic config
Hi,I'm planning to set up cluster with win 2012 and 2012 R2 servers. It's my first one so I'd like to get some extra knowledge before I start.Config is simple: Servers are virtualized with esxi, and...
View ArticleIs there any way or command to find out cluster resource name that running...
We have below queries on MSCS1. We would like to run below cluster command from remote server. Please suggest the process. Get-ClusterResource "Disk E" | Select Name,State,OwnerGroup,ResourceType2....
View ArticleDefault gateway IP address gets wiped from load balancer VM's when I create a...
So I created 3 load balancers with Windows server 2008 R2 and installed the NLB software on all 3.Then on the first LB VM I added the DNS names of the other 2 LB's and connected to them - all seems...
View ArticleFCM not loading Properties for configured Hyper-V shares
We have 3 nodes, 2 of which are part of a hyper-v cluster. Many moons ago I configured network shares within FCM, for the last few days when attempting to select properties for specific shares it...
View ArticleWindows 2008 R2 Cluster refuses to start on one node.
Hi,I'm having an intresting error on a SQL ClusterSystem is 2*Windows 2008 R2 SP1 & SQL 2008 R2 with A/P-cluster configuration.After a crash which happened by unknown reasons one of the nodes...
View ArticleWindows Failover cluster between Physical and Virtual nodes
Dear Team,One of our customer wants to build a SQL Cluster where 1<sup>st</sup> node is Physical server and 2<sup>nd</sup> node will be VM running on VMware ESX 6.0.As per my...
View ArticleEach node running a VM at the same time in a failover cluster?
Greetings.I have a 2 node failover cluster. Each node has a Hyper-V role in it. I have 2 virtual machines that i'd like to run. Currently, they are both on one node at any one time ( in case of...
View Articleserver 2016 Rolling upgrade with regular file server roles
I have a cluster with a rather important scale-out-file-server, consisting of just two nodes. Both nodes are running 2012 R2. Apart from the scale out, a couple of regular file server roles are hosted...
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 ArticleNew-SRPartnership without drive letters?
I'm struggling to find a workaround for my shortage of drive letters when I try to get cluster/cluster storage replication ready: I have my 2 clusters, each with 16xDATA LUNs and 16xLOG LUNs ready to...
View ArticleMount Points with 2012 R2 Failover Clustering
I've been reading the forum regarding how to setup mount points within a 2012 R2 failover cluster but am still confused on correct process.1) Create c:\MountPoint\MountPountName (have to create on each...
View ArticleChange Subnet mask in Windows 2012/SQL 2012 Always On Cluster
Hello,We have a three node Windows 2012 cluster and it has SQL 2012 Always on configured on it. Three nodes have incorrect subnet mask values and we would like to change it.Can anyone please provide...
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 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...
View ArticleSimulate split-brain
We have 2 nodes cluster. Quorum is on suarez in 3rd server.Could i Simulate split brain situation ?
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