Cluster 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 ArticleData Center Cluster Hardware Upgradaton
Hi,We are running a data center with multiple set of clusters with application, now some of the cluster hardware is not performing well so we are planned to upgrade the cluster server hardware.All...
View ArticleSome time Cluster Fail
Hi, i face a strange issue, i created one failover cluster in win2k8 R2 srv. it some time not pingable from other node. first time it will give the echo and the remaining will drop. i disable power...
View ArticleCluster Aware Updating - servers never reboot
I have a 3-node Server 2012 Datacenter cluster running Hyper-V. We have an internal WSUS server, and updates were just pushed to it today. I decieded to test out our Cluster Aware Updating setup.The...
View ArticleHyper-V Clustering
hi all expert, i had a problem, my second Nod cluster can't bring up the Virtual Machine,i'm using file share to place the virtual machine, need help from expertise here
View Articlejava.exe process not killed during fail over occured due to network failure -...
We are using Failover Cluster Manager version 6.1 of Windows Server 2008 R2. We have confiugred a General application for java.exe for failover to happend between server C1 and Server C2. We have found...
View ArticleMonitor WNLB Client Connection
HI,We have 3 node WNLB cluster. Is there any way i can check load distribution of nodes means which clients are connected to which nodes.SonySI
View ArticleCluster existing R2 server with multiple instances?
I have an existing server 1+ years old with 5 instances. I just received notice that the hardware genie will be visiting my company with a second node for my server.Experienced in Win2003/SQL2005...
View ArticleVSS copies lost between nodes?
In testing a 2012 F/O Cluster, it seems that Volume Shadow copies are often lost on a disc if it fails between nodes (or even possibly, if dedup runs)? i.e. Windows 2012 cluster, LUNs mounted with VSS...
View ArticleHeartbeat IP in cluster
Hi,I know this is little silly, but I am a beginner, I just want to know what is heart beat IP, I am using WS2008 R2.Please share your views.Swaprakash..
View ArticleWindows Server 2012 Cluster - Cluster Service Getting Access Denied
We are having difficulties with changing the account that our cluster service runs under from the local system account to a domain account.This is a new cluster in a lab environment. Everything seems...
View ArticleUnable to successfully cleanup - W2K12R2 - 64node - Virtual Machines
Hi guys,I have a problem and need some help. I am trying to build a 64 node cluster using hyper V on W2k12R2. I am using virtual machines for the cluster, all of the VMs are W2k12R2.What I have done...
View ArticleFailover Clustering - network maintenance
Hi,VMware has the option to disable Host Monitoring when performing network maintenance...
View ArticleFailover Clustering - NIC connectivity failure
Hi,In Failover Clustering it is possible to tune settings like SameSubnetDelay and SameSubnetThreshold. For example, configuring SameSubnetDelay to a value of 1 and SameSubnetThreshold to 10 will allow...
View ArticleHow to Change Share Name of drive in cluster available storage disk
Hi, Can anyone tell me about the sharename changing in a Cluster available storageplease see the scenario i did Created 2 Win2k8 R2 Srv and enabled cluster named CLUTEST its IP is 10.10.0.250 ( Cluster...
View ArticleCSV volume missing from node after reboot?
I have a production HA cluster with Hyper V and CSV volumes, and 2 nodes. This last weekend while patching the nodes I am no longer seeing the volumes under the c:\clusterstorage. The only errors I...
View ArticleCSV allocation unit size recommendation
Is there recommended allocation unit size for volumes that are being used as CSVs (be it for 2008 R2 Hyper-V clusters or 2012 clusters)?I haven't found any figures in MS documentation.Thanks in advance
View ArticleRemove Virtual Server from CSV to Local Storage
I copied a VHD file connected to a CSV to a local server and started up the virtaul to find out that the IP settings were back to default settings. What other settings should I be worried about on the...
View ArticleCluster-Aware Updating Readiness "Errors"
I have a two-node Windows Server 2012 failover cluster. The Windows firewall is disabled on both nodes.When I log on to one of the nodes (bcs-vmhyperv2), and run the Cluster-Aware Updating tool to...
View ArticleUpgrade of 2 node Windows 2012 R2 Cluster and one volume is missing, "No...
I am upgrading a two node cluster to Windows 2012 Preview. I had problems with hardware it seems on the first node but got it going after a bit, but the second node upgraded in-place without problems....
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