BACKup VMs to Remote site (DR) + Storage device (Same site)
friends i want to understand the best practices of taking the backup of VMs on a hyperV cluster.Scenario is if we have a hyperV cluster with different kind of work loads runnign on windows 2008 R2 Sp1...
View Articlemigration of 2008R2 cluster to 2012 R2
friends apologies if this has been discussed number of times...i have a 2008R2 cluster running which is not connected to internetnow i understand there are many reasons for me to upgrade but i cant...
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Hyper-V cluster not started
The situation is such. There is Hyper-V cluster from three Windows Server 2012 servers. The general disk subsystem is connected as iSCSI. All this worked without failures.It was required to transport...
View ArticleManaged switch for IGMP multicast NLB
Which affordable fully managed gigabit switch supports MS Network Load Balancing in IGMP multicast mode?
View ArticleCluster Management not working
Hello everyone,since today in the morning one of our Failover Clusters could not be managed anymore:- Hyper-V Manager is not showing VMs - Failover Cluster Manager does not connect to the Cluster -...
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Hyper-V iSCSI Target
hi,This is my first time I'm trying to use clustering using Microsoft iSCSI Target. I've setup all the settings on iSCSI Target according to few tutorials and they in demo's all Initiators are...
View ArticleUnable to ping resource after failing it over to second node
Hi..I have created a cluster with 2 nodes(node1,node2) and configured 2 resources(resource1,resource2) on it.Am able to ping the resource1 on both nodes.But for resource2,am able to ping it only when...
View ArticleCanot Add Storage Pool to Signle Node Cluster
Hi. I want to prepare environment (Windows 2012R2) to serve SoFS on Storage Pool. At the beginning I would like to setup FailoverCluster witch SoFS service only on One node, and if everything will be...
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CSV showing - backup in progress, redirected Access
friends ...i was testing Veeam B&R and as the backup was taking much time i had to stop it in between now my CSVs are showing backup in progress, redirected access. I tried all the options like...
View ArticleThe Recycle Bin is Corrupted
I have a 2-node SQL Server 2012 failover cluster. When connected to the cluster virtual server via remote desktop, and whenever I initiate a failover to the other node, my RDP session gets...
View ArticleBenefits of Clustered File Server vs Clustered VM
Hi,I'm running a 3 node Hyper-V Cluster with around 12 VM's. I'm looking at building a new file server and am having trouble understanding what benefits creating a clustered file server has vs creating...
View ArticleCSV cache monitoring problem
Hello, I have two Hyper-v servers as cluster nodes with enabled cluster shared volume cache and i try to monitor the cache from third server which is not a cluster node as i cannot start perfmon in...
View ArticleCSV Cluster Volumes - Repeat Disk Numbers
Hi,I'm having an issue where the same Disk Number is being assigned to multiple CSV Volumes? If i add a new volume normally it would append to the next number BUT i have 6 particular volumes that are...
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MAC address for the Microsoft Cluster Virtual Adapter
Hi Experts,Below is the IP config out of a cluster node . There are 2 active MAC address on this server one used by Client connections NIC and one used by Backup NIC ( Netabackup ) . The cluster...
View ArticleAccess Denied to Existing NLB Cluster
Hello,If I posted this in the wrong place, I am sorry, please let me know!OK, so I have 6 Windows Server 2008 R2 terminal servers in an NLB cluster. The cluster was set up using a domain admin account...
View Article1 - 2 or 3 Clusters?
Greetings,I have a question about sizing or the shape of my cluster. I would appreciate some best practice and real life input.General layout of equipment:Server 2012 R2 Data Center12 HP DL 380 Gen 9...
View ArticleStuck with Redirected Access?
I'm running a HyperV Cluster on 2012 R2. Each node is connected to the "network" with 2 nics (LACP) and to the ISCSINetwork with 4 nics, using MPIO. (usually) For one node, the 4-nic-card just died,...
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Keep Storage Pool "off the cluster"?
Hello,I'm running a hypervcluster with 2 nodes and 3 external NAS for ISCSI-Storage. Each node itself has a couple of Disks, which I want to "dedicate" to backups of the vms. (So each node will make...
View ArticleProvider Load Failure
HI all, My setup5 nodesHyper-v ClusterWhen i try to open Fail-over Cluster Manager on any of the nodes i get the error "Provider Load Failure". The Hyper-V Management Console opens but cluster manager...
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