2008R2 SQL Cluster - iSCSI Disk Failure, no Failover
I have a two-node active-active SQL Cluster.Three database instances live on one node, a fourth on the other node.The node with one instance experienced an outage on the fabric that connects it to the...
View ArticleNeed help to fix Windows 2008 cluster upgrade issue.
Hi,We did in-place upgrade from Windows 2008 to Windows 2008 R2 on first node in two node cluster {we did not notice or read the microsoft article which states it is not supported :( }. Now, after the...
View ArticleScale Out File Server Clustering - Storage Failure Issue
Hi,I am trying to build a SOFS cluster which is backed by two iSCSI NAS devices, but I seem to be having issues if one of the NAS devices fails.here is what I have (all systems are based on SERVER 2012...
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 ArticleClustered Storage Spaces - issue with SAS interposers and all SATA drives...
We have an OEM storage vendor telling us that it is NOT recommended at this time to use SAS interposers with any SATA drives (regardless of brand or type (HDD or SSD)) and use it with Windows Storage...
View ArticleCSV running out of space
We have a 2012 Hyper-V Cluster with 4 nodes and 2 CSVs. Volume1 ran out of space last night and all the VMs on that Volume went into a paused state. I was sure I had plenty of space, but I extended...
View ArticleDisimalar RAID Configurations and Validation Check in a Two Node Failover...
I am currently trying to put together a two node Windows 2012 Hyper-V cluster. I have two identical servers except for the RAID configuration. On one server I have a RAID 10 with 4 disks which are a...
View ArticleUpgrade File Server W2k Cluster
Upgrade File Server W2k Cluster I have a little project about to start2 servers Running Windows 2000 Advanced - DELL POWEREDGE 2850 with 2 - Intel Xeon CPUs 3.20GHz with 1 MB cache - 80X86-64 and 2 GB...
View ArticleNode showing down in Cluster.
I will try to make this as simple as possible. Here is the setup.2 node cluster setup as Node and Disk majority. Both servers ServerA and ServerB were online and functioning previously. Sometime...
View ArticleEncrypting a Clustered Data Volume on Windows 2008 R2 Datacenter Cluster
Operating system is Windows 2008 R2 Datacenter. I have 2 machines clustered together using an ISCSI connection to the data volume. How would I encrypt the data on the clustered volume? Bitlocker does...
View ArticleFile Server Cluster and DFS replication
hi all,i am planing file services on a two node file cluster using Windows 2008 R2, i also need to have a full replica of the shared folder on another Windows server (Windows storage server with 20 TB...
View ArticleHyper-V Cluster, with 2 nodes and 1 Virtual disk on a DAS with Windows Server...
I'm rather new to clustering and DAS and SAN storage devices so I am trying something rather simple to get me going, this is the scenario2 x Dell Servers of different spec both installed with Windows...
View Article2012 cluster storage question
This is my first cluster I have put together and I could use some advice on storage. Currently the plan is to setup a 2 node cluster VM's that I will eventually make 4 nodes once tested. The cluster...
View ArticleHelp requred in CSV and CIFS Shared drive in HA
I am deploying a application in HA where multiple servers will be used to maintain HA. The application consist of Web server, Database server and lot of Images stored on SAN.Current configuration...
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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 ArticleCluster errors involving demoted DC
Yesterday I got some cluster errors including a few source FailoverClustering, ID 1212 about the cluster name resource not able to be brought online. It also says an attempt to locate a writeable DC in...
View ArticleVMs Fail Randomly on 2012 Cluster
Our 2-node Server 2012 Hyper-V cluster is having an issue where VMs seem to randomly fail for no apparent reason. We are using Dell R900s with a MD3200i SAN and we have separate networks for iSCSI and...
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Having 2 file share witness for a 2 node windows cluster
Hello,I have a two node windows 2012 cluster on which I have configured SQL Server 2012 High Availability Groups.These two SQL server nodes are in different data centers.These are used by ASP.NET...
View ArticleCluster Disks not Moving from Server-1 to Server-2 & Disk Showing unknown...
Hi ,We have Windows 2003 R2 Service Pack SP2, Microsoft Clusterwith MS SQL 2000 Database.We are facing Cluster Fail-over issue to one of our Server . Cluster Disks not Moving from Server-1 to...
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