Event ID 1069 Cluster resource 'MSDTC Fails after Mcafee DAT update
My IT department has been struggling with this issue for several months and today it got escalated to me. I wanted to query anybody that has seen this issue that has MSDTC in a W2k8 R1 Cluster who...
View ArticleSELF account permissions reset for cluster account.
Hi,Windows 2008 R2 cluster.The cluster was created with a non domain-admin account, just the permissions needed to create all the AD objects in the Active Directory and give them the needed...
View ArticleWindows 2012 Multi-site cluster, quorum configuration question
We are working on building windows 2012 multi-site cluster for SQL 2012 AgAO solution. The Site-A has two nodes and a file share where as site-B has two nodes. Looking at the quorum configuration...
View ArticleServer 2012 Cluster nodes hang and VMs lock up, memory leaks and critical...
Last night my two-node cluster went down for no apparent reason. All VMs (4) were down even though the cluster manager said they were running. The cluster shared volume on my SAN was not accessible...
View ArticleCluster Host Master Node
Hi Team,I need to increase the cluster host master shifting interval, currently it is 5 seconds to the best of my knowledge, if it doesnt get response in 5 seconds it starts shifting the Exchange DBs...
View ArticleClustered VM
Hi!Is it possible to have a highly available VM also clustered so that if the VM itself goes down the clustered copy comes online?Thanks.
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NodeInstanceID - Allocation of a specific NodeID
When nodes are added to a cluster their NodeID is allocated as an increment to the last one. But in case we are starting to build a cluster, say with 5 or 6 nodes, can we expect/guess the node ID that...
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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 ArticleHow to create "VSS aware" recovery snapshot?
I need to implement Hyper-V incremental backup of VHD/VHDX in my application (2012 and later OSs only). I am using the following document (Under High Availability, Page no: 103-104) as a...
View ArticleTestlab: Need 101 help setting up 2 node Win Srv 2012 R2 cluster
I setup 2 Win Srv 2012 R2 nodes (VM Guests) and added them to a single cluster. Then I created another Win Srv 2012 R2 "Storage Server", planning to use a share on it as common storage shared by both...
View ArticleMaking VM dependent on Storage Volume
Hi,I was wondering if it is possible to make a VM dependent or to always migrate a VM to the same node as a CSV on a Hyper-V cluster.For example, I have a a VM with directly attached volumes as hard...
View ArticleFoundation agent warning 1167 on Hyper-v server
Hi all, Inour environment we have 4 node hyper-v cluster which are running on HP Blade servers. The san which we are using is HP P400 iSCSI Storage. we are using CSV (cluster shared volume) within this...
View ArticleCluster node addition fails on cleanup
We have a 2 node cluster setup already(2) HP BL460c G8 servers connected to a VNX5300 SAN (Nodes 1 & 2)Server 2012 Datacenter installedQuarum: Node + Diskall failover tests went perfectly and all...
View ArticleNetwork Name Not Found
I have a Windows 2008 R2 File Server/SQL Cluster on 2 node active/passive setup. One of the developers at my work was trying to access a hidden share for a partition that is on the iSCSI drive. She was...
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Terminology for cluster networks
Hello!I've already asked the question on cluster communication network here...
View ArticleWS2012 Quroum error
Hi,We have a 6 node WS2012 Hyper-V cluster currently configured with a "Node majority" quorum.When we try and change the Quorum settings to "File share witness"Share: \\servername\shareQuorum...
View ArticleUnknown Issue with 2012 Failover Cluster
HelloI have 2 Hosts , HP Proliant DL580 G7 with Server windows server 2012 Installed and updated with the last windows updates and drivers and hardware firmware. And the Hyper-v Role installed.With FC...
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Add-VMHardDiskDrive anomaly
I am building a PowerShell script to build out a SQL cluster comprised of VMs. I have a 2012 R2 Hyper-V cluster with shared FC. Everything is working fine on it. But I ran into a strange occurrence...
View ArticleUnderstanding Quorum Disk
We've got a simple 3-node Hyper-V cluster setup which initially passed the verify tool 100%. We created it, added the drives from the SAN, everything works great (including planned/unplanned...
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