CSV and live migration from another server not in cluster
Good evening, I created a CSV in a server 2012 hyper V set up with failover clustering so that they could all share the same disk in order to create VMs and live migrate that way. My question is if it...
View Articlelive migrating from a non-csv to a cluster share volume Windows server 2012 r2
Good evening, I am trying to migrate a VM and it's VHDs from a local storage to a CSV; but when I perform it, it fails with not enough space even though there is more then enough in the CSV. I read...
View ArticleWeb Server 2012 Failover
Hello,I will have a new web server and was wondering what are my options with setting up a failover. I want to be able to failover to the secondary web server while doing application updates on the...
View ArticleNetwork Load Balancer -- Multicast VIP is not able to ping from outside VLAN
I configured NLB on Windows 2012 with Multicast setting. I am not able to pingNLB virtual IP from outside VLAN. However I am able to ping dedicated IP on machines from outside VLAN.Any comment will be...
View ArticleRebuilding CSV Volume
I have a 3 host Hyper-V 2008 R2 cluster with iSCSI storage on the back end. There are 3 CSV volumes. Two of the volumes were created properly, but I need to rebuild the 3rd. I didn't have enough...
View ArticleEquallogic VSS Requestor Memory Leak( HIT KIT 4.8 Windows)
Hello,I have a 8 node cluster (W2K12R2) with Equallogic VSS service( EqlReqService.exe) on each node ( Dell PowerEdge M620) utilizing +/- 20Gb of memory. The only workaround i have is to restart the...
View ArticleWindows server 2012 R2 clustering between physical workstation and VM node
Dear all,Now i have a physical server and virtual machine both installed with windows server 2012 R2, did it possible to build a cluster environment on physical server with one virtual machine. (Note:...
View ArticleExtending Clustered Drives
Hi All,We have a request to extend one of the clustered drives on an SQL 2008 Cluster hosted on windows 2008 r2. We will follow the below steps to extend it. Kindly let us know if these are correct...
View ArticleClustering Active Directory Certificate Services
We have a 3rd party application that can only handle a single issuing CA but that CA needs to be highly available. There are several good resources online for ADCS, Clustering ADCS, and Two-Tier PKI...
View Article2012 R2 Cluster - Active Node ejects all other nodes - random times
ISSUEWe have a 4 node 2012 R2 Cluster - Active\Passive \File Share\ and Passive DR ServerOur issue is that our active node appears to be losing all cluster communication and is ejecting all other...
View ArticleWorth upgrading HyperV cluster from 2012 to 2012 R2 at this point?
Just wondering peoples take on this. Its a long discussion at work that is had frequently. We are stable so it seems kind of crazy to tempt fate.
View Article2 node server 2012 R2 file cluster goes offline when i change nodes
I have a 2 node cluster.2 - server running clustering with file server service installed. both are inside vSphere 6.0u2 hosted in a UCS blade system. Both have 2 nics, 1 for client communications with...
View ArticleHyper-V 2012 host keeps pausing
I'm working with a 6 node Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V failover cluster. One of the hosts was recently paused (using failover cluster manager) for some maintenance. (configured the delayed ack for the...
View ArticleOOD and EVEN cluster, looking simple and small definitions
Hi fail over clustering means redundancy question here is redundancy what is basic components or definitions for e.g quorum what is quorum, how types of quorum, what are settings used in quorum, which...
View ArticleAll VMs crash when we loose Layer 3 connectivity
Greetings, any chance that you could clear up a SCVMM debate that we have been having for some time. We have a Windows 2012 R2 8 node cluster using SAN storage (System x3850 X5 & Emulex 42D0494,...
View ArticleFailover Cluster DFS migration issue
Hi All,I have a Windows 2008 R2 Failover Cluster.I have a Windows 2012 R2 Failover Cluster.I have been able to use the Copy Cluster Role to migrate 70 VM’s and the DHCP service from the Windows 2008R2...
View ArticleARGH!! SMB share listed in Server Manager, but cannot view on disk
We have an application SMB share (lets call it HYPERSHARE_1), hosted on a CSV. The share is visible within server manager, but states that it contains only a few hundred MB of data, as opposed to the...
View ArticleMulti subnet failover cluster setup
Hi.Cluster services already created also working with multi subnet failover clusterTotal three Nodes, Two Nodes hosted in Primary site and One Node hosted at Remote Site all the nodes are installed OS...
View ArticleAll Guest VMs Paused Due to Incorrectly Reported Avaialble Space on CSV
We have a 3 node Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V Cluster and we use DPM for backing them up. Today all the guests went into a paused state with Failover Cluster Manager reporting there was less than 1GB free on...
View ArticleHow to move SAN disks (LUNs) from one node to another node quickly?
Dears,I have a two nodes SQL cluster, there are five SQL instances, each instance uses 6 LUNs, so total I have 30 Luns; if I want to reboot the active node the cluster service will take long time to...
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