Error while configuring ADC (Additional Domain Controller)
Hello Experts,I am configuring ADC (Additional Domain controller) in a member server which is in workgroup. while configuring ADC on that server, I got a window saying "additional information for this...
View ArticleHigh Availability Storage - How??
HiI am just getting into the whole clustering and high availability area, particularly focusing on hyper-v. I already know about having redundancy for all the components which make this solution up...
View ArticleCluster Quorum drive is dirty
I have 2 node windows 2008 R2 cluster and the Quorum drive has become dirty. While created a new file/folder, getting an error disk structure is corrupted and un readable. I need to run chkdsk /F to...
View ArticleFailover Cluster Network - MPIO
Each of my Hyper-V hosts has 2 NICs configured for iSCSI using MPIO.I have set the MPIO policy as Round Robin with Subset.When I check the Failover Cluster Network settings (in the Failover Cluster...
View ArticleVM Clustering with each in seperate hyperV host
Hi,Like to find out the correct setup for this.I have the following1 VM (VM1) in HyperV Host A (HypervA)1 VM (VM2) in HyperV Host B (HypervB)VM1 and VM2 will form traditional Failover Clustering.VM...
View ArticleDFS between two clusters
I am trying to setup a DFS namespace between two fail-over clusters. I have 2 nodes for Cluster-1 and 2 nodes for Cluster-2. I would like to have a single namespace for files located on each...
View ArticleMSMQ Clustering: Windows 2012 crashes when remote computer reads message from...
We are having 2 Node Windows Failover Cluster deployed on Windows 2012 Standard Edition having MSMQ Role Deployed. Whenever we try to peek message from clustered private queue present at any one of the...
View ArticleSingle Failover Cluster vs Multiple Failover Cluster
Dear All.....Can anyone list down scenarios where multiple failover clusters would be better suited rather than single failover cluster especially in a private cloud environment............Thanks.
View ArticleMicrosoft Windows Server 2012 CSV Best Practices
Dear All.....Can anyone list down best practices with respect to Cluster Shared Volumes such as number of partitions per LUN, number of VMs per Volume, etc......And whether multiple Cluster Shared...
View ArticleWindows Cluster for High Availability of Application Server
We have two Servers one with ASP.net Application and other with SQL Database on Location 1.Application is running fine.We need to Configure the Same Servers on Location 2. Machines are ready with...
View ArticleMultiple Clusters in Private Cloud
Dear All.....What would be desirable/recommended in a Private Cloud setup.....To have a single cluster with N number of nodes with N number of CSV.....OR Multiple Clusters with limited number of nodes...
View ArticleCSV Best Practices
IOPS are the deciding factor when it comes to single CSV or multiple CSV.....if IOPS required by VMs hosted on the CSV are enough then one CSV is good enough and easy to manage.....and if the workload...
View ArticleExchange 2010 CAS NLB doesn't show all nodes
Hello.I have installed two Exchange 2010 CAS-HUB Server in a cas array under Windows 2012. I have deployed NLB in both servers. Few days ago, only the node where I'm logged in has shown on NLB...
View ArticleCluster Network Configuration
I have 3 DL385 servers with 4 10G Nic's in a server 2012 Cluster for Hyper-VI have it setup with 2 teams, Access and Data teams. The access team is on a routable vlan that all the other vlans can...
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Inactive node's NTBACKUP not running pointing to error in VSS
HiIn a cluster environment , one node which is INACTIVE (Windows Server 2003 Ent.64 bit), while executing the NTBACKUP command the following errors occur and unable to perform the backupAny help is...
View ArticleClustered 2-node iSCSI target server
I'm having some problems getting this running. I've got two IBM blades, both of which have the Cluster and iSCSI target roles installed. I have created two virtual disks on the first blade for iSCSI...
View Articleserver 2012 clustering
I have a 2 node cluster and need to see if I set it up correctly:server 2012---------------------------------------------------server1 nic1 IP 10.10.1.100 10gb publicserver1 nic2 IP 10.10.1.200 10gb...
View ArticleMaximum LUNS in Hyper-V 2012 Cluster
Hi,In Hyper-V 2008 R2, I was told that "Windows does not have a great track record managing many LUNs. From experience we see scale issues anywhere at 150 LUNs and above."I was also told "MSFT is...
View ArticleWindows 2012 Failover Cluster Manager does not correctly reflect expanded...
Hello, I have a Failover Cluster setup comprising of 5 Windows 2012 nodes. All my Virtual machines are created on CSV volumes. I recently had to expand the size of a CSV volume from the SAN side....
View ArticleHow to create a Shared Drive (CSV) in Hyper - V 2012
Hi,I pretty new with the Hyper - V (Windows Server 2012 Data Centre) and all my VM's are hosted in Hyper - V.My Cluster VM's are also on the same Hyper - VI want to configure a failover cluster setup,...
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