Failover if Network Cable Unplugged
I've setup a cluster and I'm trying to understand how the systems will react upon failure. To simulate a network failure I unplugged the Network cable from a server that was active. It never failed...
View ArticleOne Node in DR shown as Down status and network unavailable
Hi Team, I have Windows Cluster with 3 nodes . Plan is to configure AG between Primary and DR datacenter. Node from DR site is showing as down status in cluster manager with all its network interfaces...
View ArticlePossible problems with Destroying a File Server cluster?
I have a 2008R2 file server cluster that is extremely critical. It is actually running 2008R2 Storage server with SIS and Microsoft recommends re-inflating the volumes before moving to a new cluster....
View Articleadd 3rd Node to Hyper-v cluster
I have a Windows 2012 Hyper-V Cluster with 2 Nodes. They have a connecting to SAN via FC and have 3 disk - Qourum and 2 CSV. I'm connected 3rd node to san and domain, install hyper-v role, updates,...
View ArticleFile share witness folder
Hi,we have created the cluster with file share witness. Where can I find a file Witness.log which contains the membership information for the Cluster?I tried to check at C:\cluster storage. But this...
View ArticleAlternative for RDM in Cluster
Dear All, I have a SQL Server 2008R2 SP1 cluster on Windows 2000R2 ,Now we have an issues with RDM, Hence we want go with any other alternative solutions for Storage. Please some one suggest us which...
View Articlenic teaming live migration config
I have a new 2-node hyper-v cluster with the following config:2x 10gb nic for VM/LM; dynamic LACP team; VM vlans 101-151; LM vlan 964x 1gb nic for VM/LM; switch independent team1x 1gb nic for...
View ArticleHave a redundant CA at a DR Site
Hi GuysI have a Windows Server 2012 R2 Certification Authority at my production site. I need to have this role highly available with failover to my DR Site.What is the best approach for this???
View ArticleNo Failover on Service Restart
Anyway to prevent a failover when a service restarts? we want to setup a cluster based on a generic service but the service restarts nightly
View ArticleDowntime when failing over to our second Exchange 2016 DAG Node
I'm new to 2016 Exchange, but here's my problem. Exchange seems to be running fine in general. We have two 2016 Exchange node (DAG). In my mind, I'm thinking that when I need to perform maintenance...
View ArticleCluster disks showing reserved on both nodes.
Hello Folks,We have configured file services on the Windows Storage server 2012 R2 cluster. Team has recently restarted both nodes at the same time and after that my cluster went down. I am not able to...
View ArticleMulti-Instance SQL Failover Cluster (Active-Active Cluster) - Database writes
In my organization we stood up a test SQL failover cluster. We began with the typical 2 node architecture where node1 holds the SQL role and node2 is configured as an additional node on standby in the...
View ArticleOne of the failover clusters failed to start
Hi,I want to know the solution of the following problem. One of the failover clusters was found not joining the service with the following error shown "An error occurred attempting to start the cluster...
View ArticleCluster log location in 2008 /2012 OS
Hi,Can anyone explain me cluster log file location in 2008R2 /2012 Hope we need to check the log file during troubleshooting the cluster issue
View Articlecluster commands for admin purpose
Hi,Please explain important commands used for cluster administration in 2008 / 2012 OS.
View ArticleLicencing non-VM roles
We had a consultant in today looking at various things on our system.Unrelatedly he commented that use FC fileserver used a full additional server licence, as would a FC DHCP role.Is this true? I...
View Article[2012 R2 NLB] http clients see 1 timeout when NLB node is stopped
Windows Server 2012 R2 Network Load BalancingTest Environment Configuration:1 Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V host2 Windows Server 2012 R2 VM's acting as the 2 NLB cluster nodeseach node has a management...
View ArticleSteps for implementing 2 node cluster
Hi All, I would like to have implementation steps to create 2 node cluster which includes network, storage configuration as well. If anyone have documents or links please share with me. Many thanks for...
View ArticleServer 2016 Cluster to Cluster Replication
Hi,I followed this guide Cluster to cluster Storage Replication to create a cluster. I am having problems with the Scale out file server section and create new-srpartnership.If I create a...
View ArticleStorage Spaces Direct stuck
Hi All,when running Enable-ClusterStorageSpacesDirect i get:VERBOSE: nano01: 2016/11/24-05:52:49.836 Disks surfaced on node 'nano01': 3/3 VERBOSE: nano01: 2016/11/24-05:52:49.851 Disks surfaced on node...
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