SOFS and connections
HeyI would like to create an active/active file server for User Profile Disks (vhdx)I have create a SOFS cluster (Virtual machines + shared disk + CSV).To my understandig the SOFS setup still uses one...
View ArticleCluster startup
Suppose I have a 4 nodes cluster + 1 FSW. And at the beginning the 4 nodes are shutdown .I would like to startup the first 2 nodes, however the cluster seems identify down. (maybe not enough...
View ArticleClustering between a physical server DASD and a VM
Scenario : Physical Server (PS1) with DASD : WIndows 2012 R2 (Multiple terabytes of data on multiple partitions/drives)Virtual Server 1 (VS1): Windows 2016 (target server Day 1)Virtual Server 2 (VS2):...
View ArticleStorage Spaces Direct / Cluster Virtual Disk goes offline when rebooting a node
HelloWe have several Hyper-converged einvoronments based on HP ProLiant DL360/DL380. We have 3 Node and 2 Node Clusters, running with Windows 2016 and actual patches, Firmware Updates done, Witness...
View ArticleSimulate simultaneously failure nodes
Are there any way I can simulate simultaneously failure nodes? I use task scheduler to set shutdown at the same time, howeverseems can't get my expected results. THe dynamic vote seems changing too fast/
View ArticleWindows NLB takes too long to recover/failback
I've built a fresh Windows Server 2016 NLB cluster of two Web Application Proxy servers.They are both Hyper-V VMs on the same host and with MACAddressSpoofing set to ON.Both servers are dual-NIC and...
View ArticleWSFC broken, please help diagnose
I have a 2016 WSFC with file server role. 2 Nodes in the cluster shared storage. We lost Power to Node2 which died, when bringing it back up it wont join the cluster (shows 'Down' in failover cluster...
View ArticleSOFS and load balancing
HeyJust create a Cluster running Scale-Out Fileserver.I need to have an active/active system due to many connection.When looking into open files - it seems users only connect to one server in the...
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Unable to connect to cluster using Failover Cluster Manager
In the last day or so I've discovered that I'm no longer able to connect to my cluster using Failover Cluster Manager. When I try to connect it gives me the error "An error occurred connecting to the...
View ArticleWindows AD user password reset details through powershell script!!!
Hello All,How to get the Password change/reset logs from AD server through Powers-shell Command with on daily basis automaticscripting.Currently i am using below command to get the last reset details....
View ArticleStretch Cluster / Storage Replica / Log volume VSS Snapshots due to built-in...
Hi fellow Engineers.I am currently investigating an annoying issue on a virtual (!) WFC (v2016) that is being used as a 4-node HA FileServer (2node HA in each datacenter). Storage (2x 5TB) is being...
View Articlewindows 2016 cluster QuarantineThreshold
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/clustering/2015/06/03/virtual-machine-compute-resiliency-in-windows-server-2016/QuarantineThreshold means Number of failures before a node is Quarantined. I have some...
View ArticleStorage Spaces Direct is the most unreliable, non highly-available...
Storage Spaces Direct is the most unreliable, non highly-available high-availability solution Microsoft have ever released! We purchased a fully validated S2D solution from Dell and in two years since...
View ArticleWindows 2016 DataCentre : Cannot Create Storage Replica for stretch cluster...
I have 4 virtual machines running Windows 2016 with failover clustering.These are spread across 2 data centers (2 VMs in each data center).Each pair of VMs has 2 shared 'vhd sets' for Log and Replica...
View ArticleClustering windows server 2016 Data Center
Hello,I have been asked to Cluster 2 HP Proliant Servers 380 Gen 10.On both servers Raid 1 (2 first Disk) and Raid 5 (three last disk ) have been configured.I have already installed windows server...
View ArticleFirewall block traffic of heart beat
I want to do some test in cluster to lost heartbeat, I want to use windows firewall to perform this .what port I should block ?I tried block UDP and TCP 3343, but seems still not working .
View ArticleGuys caw we get the RegKey back for the passing WSSD on the windows server...
as per the official Microsoft position on windows server 2019 Data Centre "...When can I deploy Storage Spaces Direct in Windows Server 2019 into production? Microsoft recommends deploying Storage...
View ArticleS2D IO TIMEOUT when rebooting node
I am building a 6 Node cluster, 12 6TB drives, 2 4TB Intel p4600 PCIe NVME drives - Xeon Plat 8168/768GB Ram, LSI9008 HBA.The cluster passes all tests, switches are properly configured and the cluster...
View ArticleHow can we move the Quorum Disk from Node1 to Node2 ? - Windows 2012 R2 -...
Hello,We have created a cluster with 2 Nodes and created a role for File share. There are totally 3 Disks in the cluster, among three we have allocated 1 disk as Quorum Disk.When Node1 is powered off,...
View Articlewindows 2019 s2d cluster failed to start event id 1809
Hi I have lab with insider windows 2019 cluster which I inplace upgraded to rtm version of 2019 server and cluster is shutdown after while and event id 1809 is listed This node has been joined to a...
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