Licencing Windows Server 2012 R2 in a HA Cluster
Let’s say I have a cluster with 4 nodes (2 CPU per node) running a couple of Linux machines (30+) and want to licence this Cluster also for Windows Server 2012 R2 systems. Since I would only use around...
View ArticleRe-Name the Cluster Name on Windows 2012 server
Hello, I am not able to Re-Name the Cluster Name on the newly built server getting the blow errorCluster network name resource 'Cluster Name' encountered an error enabling the network name on this...
View ArticleTrouble Failover Cluster- SQL Server, Availability Group DNS Name
Hi everyone,Im having problems trying to do a failover cluster with SQL Server for High Availability.The nodes are configured with the Availability Group Listeners with two ip adresses.The name for the...
View ArticlePermission issues with HyperV over Scaled out File Server
Hello All, I have two major issues with trying to run HyperV over Scaled out File Server (SOFS), I would really appreciate it if anyone can help out on this. The SetupNodes: HYPERV1, HYPERV2, HYPERV3,...
View ArticleHyper-V Failover cluster Validation report fails on Hyper-V Replica tasks
HiMy validation report passes all tests, except it keeps failing on Hyper-V Replica tasks. This is an existing cluster I want to validate before adding additional nodes.The tests that fail areValidate...
View ArticleIssue With Server 2012 R2 Clustered File Share randomly deleting/locking files
I have a Server 2012 R2 2 node cluster with a ~76 TB File share (X:) and a ~10TB File share (Y:) each of these runs on opposing nodes, they have been in production about 18 months.Starting about 3...
View ArticleHyper V FailOver Cluster error
Hello! I have a Cluster Hyper V solution with two Hosts. On host 1, I have five VMs. When I use live migration or quick migration from VMs to host 2, when it comes to the second VM, I get a blue...
View ArticleAdd new heartbeat network for existing Windows Cluster
Hi, im running a 2012 Windows Cluster (running SQL 2012 Always On cluster).I discovered that there is an error in the NIC added on one of the nodes, and I need to replace the existing private cluster...
View ArticleCluster creation failing - timing - cant figure out why. maybe because of...
I'm really struggling with this one and am hoping someone may be able to assist or point me in the right direction.I am trying to build a three node cluster that will be used for a later SQL...
View ArticleCluster IP and heartbeat IP availability
HiWe are preparing HV cluster nodes. As of now 2 NICs are configured, one with default gateway and using for management and server is registered in AD integrated DNS using this IP, second NIC is...
View ArticleTask scheduler on NLB cluster
Hi,we are setting up two Windows Server 2012 R2 servers on NLB clusters for iis (asp.net) sites. We need to run some console apps by using task scheduler. This was easy when we had only one server....
View Articlemigration of 2008R2 cluster to 2012 R2 - New hardware
friends i have a 2 node cluster running on windows 2008 R2. connected via a SAN over iSCSI.i want to migrate to 2012 r2 as my current AD is very much messed up i dont want to migrate in the same domain...
View ArticleMultisite Failover Cluster Query
Hello, To automatically failover to a secondary site, I understand the recommended setup for a multi-site failover cluster is to use node and file share majority with 2 nodes in each site and a file...
View ArticleSMB multichannel failover not working
Hello, We've got a 4 node Hyper-V 2012R2 Cluster. Each node has 6 NICs. I've configured the following: 2 for ISCSI - MPIO, 2 for the Hyper-v switch and management - Teamed in switch independent...
View ArticleCluster Validation Advising Software Updates Missing
Hi,I've configured a new node and bought it into our Hyper-V Cluster but during the cluster validation it's giving me a warning advising that KB3108347 and KB3126041 are missing from the server.If I...
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Cannot validate cluster "You do not have administrative privileges on the...
Hi Let me describe the problem: I have to build a two-node failover cluster. I have this two nodes in a domain which is installed on the third computer. I am log on with domain admin. when running...
View ArticleAdd NIC Teaming to SQL Cluster Node
hi all , currently we have implement guest SQL Cluster i.e. we have two virtual SQL Server on Hyper-V . after we have finish the deployment we are facing to much traffic on the SQL Network Card...
View ArticleNode in cluster - status changes to "paused"
We have seven Windows 2012 R2 nodes in a Hyper-V cluster. They are all identical hardware (HP BladeSystem). For a while, we had only six nodes, and there were no problems.Recently, we added the seventh...
View ArticleUpgrading cluster 2012 -> 2012R2 no downtime
Hello,We have a 2-node cluster both Windows 2012 servers. We now want to add a third node, but this one is 2012R2. Cluster validation fails because the apparently can't work together.How can we add our...
View Articleadding node 2 -getting timeout period expired
Hi,I had 2 node cluster running MS SQL Server 2012 in high availability mode. due to some problem node2 physically damaged. Then i rebuild node2 and now trying to add newly build node2 into cluster,...
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