Drain Roles from node - exclude VM
I have a new 2 Node Hyper-V Cluster setup. Cluster Aware Updating has been setup as well.For another reason I needed to reboot one of the nodes and performed a Pause > Drain Roles.On this node there...
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 ArticleMigrating 2012 Hyper-V Cluster to 2012 R2 VMs with snapshots
I am planning the migration of our 2012 RTM cluster to 2012 R2 and will be using the Copy Cluster Roles Wizard for the move. Do I need to delete all my existing VM snapshots before migrating? The VM...
View ArticleWindows 2008R2 with MSSQL 2012 failover cluster: SAN Policy change
We have 2-nodes MSSQL 2012 failover cluster.After rebooting all cluster nodes cluster disks are in "reserved" state.I can to bring online cluster disk manually, but want to do it automatically.Is it...
View ArticleNewbie questions - 2008R2 2-Node Cluster and Failures
Trying to troubleshot the sequence of events of an outage on a 2-node 2008 R2 MSCS based cluster (we have an IP address and SQL Server instance clustered). Will refer to nodes as NODE05 and...
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Bug or am I missing something? Server 2012 Cluster Aware Updating task is...
Using the wizard, I specify...Then I look at the scheduled task and it's always one hour off.This isn't a timezone issue because I'm setting it and looking at it on the same server and all our servers...
View ArticleClustering across Physical Sites
I'll preface this with I am new to Server 2012R2 and failover clustering. The end goal is to setup SQL 2014 AlwaysOn for a new Sharepoint setup. Environment Server1: MainSite VMWare ESXi 5.1 Windows...
View ArticleThe Cluster service is shutting down because quorum was lost
Hi, we recently experienced the above issue and after looking for explanations I haven't been able to find any satisfying answers when other people have posted this issue.Our problem is as follows:2...
View ArticleAnyone can help me to answer this question?
Hi all;Please read the following question:Your network contains an Active Directory domain named contoso.com. The domain contains two member servers named Server1 and Server2. All servers run Windows...
View ArticleEvent ID 1073 The Cluster service was halted to prevent an inconsistency...
Hi everyone!There is a 5-node SQL Server 2012 failover cluster based on Windows server 2012 Datacenter and built on IBM Bladecenter HS23 type 7875. Cluster nodes are using SAN-boot from IBM Storwize...
View ArticleIssue with storage while adding node to cluster
Greetings all,I started with a 2-node Windows 2012 failover cluster consisting of node1 and node2. To migrate to Windows Server 2012 R2 I created a node3 and installed it as a single node failover...
View ArticleCluster Name Resource not coming ONLINE
Hello,I have recently deployed 2 node cluster based on Windows Server 2012 R2. CNO and corresponding IP is online but Microsoft DTC role name is not coming online.Error / Warning Logs is pasted for...
View ArticleLicensing Windows Server in a Cluster (Passive Node)
Do I need to purchase a Windows Server license for passive nodes in a Fail-Over cluster? Passive means it is running behind a VIP but no users are accessing the passive node as long as the active node...
View Article2012 R2 CSV "Online (No Access)" after node joins cluster
Okay, this has been going on for months after we performed an upgrade on our 2008 R2 clusters. We upgraded our development cluster from 2008 R2 to 2012 (SP1) and had no issues, saw great performance...
View ArticleBest Approch to Upgrade 2008R2/2012 cluster in windows 2012 R2 Cluster
Hi Team,I want to consolidate my Windows Hyper-v server/cluster into one single Windows 2012R2 cluster .i have below environment.Three Windows 2012 R1, Clustered Hyper V.Three Windows 2008 R2,...
View ArticleWindows Failover Cluster (Errors retrieving file shares)
I'm having an issue with Windows Failover Cluster with a Windows Server 2012 R2 machine. I have two cluster nodes (nodeA and nodeB). My issue is that when nodeA is the owner node, and I open failover...
View Articlehow to remove two nodes from old cluster, and put them in new one, in another...
Hi there! I've two servers (Server1 and Server2), in cluster with settings like below:domain name: london.local Server1 -> OS windows server 2012 Server2 -> OS windows server 2012and they are...
View ArticleCSV performance issue with SaS disks
We've been testing Microsoft's famous solution ; storage pools , SaS and finally CSV for a cluster environment IOPS . we have SaS disks connected through JBODs and SaS HBA cards . before making a CSV...
View Articlewindows server 2012 R2 clustering issue with disks
we have a two node clusterwe have volumes configurred on both the clusters.we are using EVA san storage.Data(C:\ClusterStorage\Volume1)Logs(C:\ClusterStorage\Volume2)i am able to change/move Clustered...
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Failover cluster manager
Hi Guys,I am getting below error message while validate a configuration of failover cluster manager. I have checked services and cluster services are started. I have rebooted both the cluster server,...
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