disk failover works only in one direction winserver 2012R2
I have been banging my head against the wall trying to figure this out...I have a cluster with WS2012R2 The cluster is on 2 HP DL360 G7 all latest rom drivers etc..Connection to the disks is via emulex...
View ArticleMirrored Storage between two servers
Hello,Is it possible to create redundant storage using two Windows 2012 r2 servers? I've been looking all over and any HA options always reference having external shared storage presented to the...
View ArticleShould one use MPIO and/or CSV in a Windows 2012 R2 guest cluster?
Should one use MPIO and/or CSV in a Windows 2012 R2 guest cluster using VMware ESXi 5.5 presented Fiber LUN RDMs.If MPIO were implemented is there a preference for HW manufacturer DISM vs. MS DISM in a...
View ArticleGentoo Linux and Microsoft Failover Clusters / Hyper-V
Hello, Hoping there are a few people on the boards familiar with running Gentoo Linux guests under Microsoft FailOver Cluster / Hyper-V hosts. I have four Gentoo Linux guest VMs (running kernel...
View ArticleWindows 2008 failover clustering fails with Event ID 1205 1069 1558
I have a two nodes Windows 2008 and SQL 2008 cluster running in active\passive. I was restarting my nodes after applying windows update then I received the following error message below within...
View ArticleIs CIFS Share in Netapp Filer supported as File Share Witness?
Hi All,I'm currently setting up a Windows 2008 R2 Cluster and I'm having a hard time making a CIFS share work as a File Share Witness. Is this a supported configuration?Thank you!adlpena
View ArticleWindows 2012 R2 Hyper-V clustering using "share nothing" strategy
Greetings,I have been trying to embrace the share nothing strategy Microsoft has put forth with Hyper-V clustering. By definition, "A shared nothing architecture is a distributed computing...
View ArticleCAU - ignore WSUS
I just installed new Windows Server 2012R2 cluster with Cluster Aware Updating. I'm testing CAU before going live with this cluser. CAU shows "No updates", but when I manually scan for updates from...
View ArticleConnection was interrupted between Failover cluster and shared storage
Hi guys,My Hyper-V server was composed of 2 HP servers, the OS is win2008, they formed a cluster, and the VM’s storage is shared by NetApp Snapdrive. I met an issue yesterday; one of the Failover...
View ArticleWhat is the value of the 'Name' attribute of an Instance of Resource Type...
See subject. I'm writing a Powershell script which is supposed to return the configured hostname and IP Address for a service associated with a role on a failover cluster. I'm using, e.g.. the...
View ArticleUpgrade of Integation Services (Windows 2012 R2) on Windows 2008 R2 with...
Here is the scenario:Legacy Host: Windows 2008 R2 Guest VM: Windows 2008 R2 with Exchange 2013 SP1 DAG cluster.After importing the VM (2008 R2 and Exchange 2013 DAG) into a 2012 R2 host (Cluster)....
View Articleiscsi initiator question
hello Forum,i am trying to setup iscsi on vm running server windows2012.I created a target, assigned disk to it - file on local drive, assigned servers which would access this resource.Now i try to...
View ArticleCluster Aware Updating Fails if Windows Firewall service is disabled
Hi,I have installed the cluster aware updating feature on a Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V cluster and it fails if the Windows Firewall service is disabled on cluster nodes. If I enable and start the service...
View ArticleTaking cluster disk offline made all other resources in the group to go offline.
Hi,We have three node windows 2008 R2 failover cluster. When we tried to take one of the cluster disk offline from a application and services, it made all other resources in that application and...
View ArticleCluster nodes
Hi Team,we have 2 nodes cluster set up, here if it is possible for 1 node put in to one data center and another node is put into different data center.ex :node 1 placed into [ABC DATA CENTER]node 2...
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Missing disks in a guest cluster
Hello!There's a guest cluster named GuestCluster which consists of the two VMs (Win2012R2) - Guest1 and Guest2.Their vhdx-files along with the two guest cluster disks (wich are shared vhdx files...
View ArticleMSMQ Clustering with load balancing
Hi,I understand the MSMQ clustering creates an active and a failover node. My intention is to have both active nodes and if one fails the other to take it's traffic. I don't want to waste a machine...
View Articlecannot add port rule to NLB
Hello,I have set up two Exchange 2010 CAS + HUB in a NLB cluster. ( W2K8 R2)I added some port rules: 25, 587, 995, 993 (All TCP traffic related to email, as you know).The thing is that I want to add...
View ArticleNLB Unicast and certificate for the machine
Hello,I have set up a two node nlb cluster, in unicast.On the other hand, I have a GPO with which every computer in the network gets acertificate from the CA, through autoenrollment.I am new to NLB ,...
View Article2 Node Cluster with Server 2008 R2 Cluster Disks Show as "Local Disk"
I have 2 Node Cluster with Server 2008 R2 with 13 LUNS presented as Clustered Disks within Failover Cluster Manger.When view Hard Disk Drives within Windows Explorer 10 Drives show as Type = Clustered...
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