SOFS and connections
HeyI would like to create an active/active file server for User Profile Disks (vhdx)I have create a SOFS cluster (Virtual machines + shared disk + CSV).To my understandig the SOFS setup still uses one...
View ArticleCluster startup
Suppose I have a 4 nodes cluster + 1 FSW. And at the beginning the 4 nodes are shutdown .I would like to startup the first 2 nodes, however the cluster seems identify down. (maybe not enough...
View ArticleClustering between a physical server DASD and a VM
Scenario : Physical Server (PS1) with DASD : WIndows 2012 R2 (Multiple terabytes of data on multiple partitions/drives)Virtual Server 1 (VS1): Windows 2016 (target server Day 1)Virtual Server 2 (VS2):...
View ArticleSimulate simultaneously failure nodes
Are there any way I can simulate simultaneously failure nodes? I use task scheduler to set shutdown at the same time, howeverseems can't get my expected results. THe dynamic vote seems changing too fast/
View ArticleWindows NLB takes too long to recover/failback
I've built a fresh Windows Server 2016 NLB cluster of two Web Application Proxy servers.They are both Hyper-V VMs on the same host and with MACAddressSpoofing set to ON.Both servers are dual-NIC and...
View ArticleStorage Spaces Direct is the most unreliable, non highly-available...
Storage Spaces Direct is the most unreliable, non highly-available high-availability solution Microsoft have ever released! We purchased a fully validated S2D solution from Dell and in two years since...
View ArticleWindows 2016 DataCentre : Cannot Create Storage Replica for stretch cluster...
I have 4 virtual machines running Windows 2016 with failover clustering.These are spread across 2 data centers (2 VMs in each data center).Each pair of VMs has 2 shared 'vhd sets' for Log and Replica...
View ArticleClustering windows server 2016 Data Center
Hello,I have been asked to Cluster 2 HP Proliant Servers 380 Gen 10.On both servers Raid 1 (2 first Disk)Ā and Raid 5 (three last disk ) have been configured.I have already installed windows server...
View ArticleFirewall block traffic of heart beat
I want to do some test in cluster to lost heartbeat, I want to use windows firewall to perform this .what port I should block ?I tried block UDP and TCP 3343, but seems still not working .
View ArticleGuys caw we get the RegKey back for the passing WSSD on the windows server...
as per the official Microsoft position on windows server 2019 Data CentreĀ "...When can I deploy Storage Spaces Direct in Windows Server 2019 into production? Microsoft recommends deploying Storage...
View ArticleHow can we move the Quorum Disk from Node1 to Node2 ? - Windows 2012 R2 -...
Hello,We have created a cluster with 2 Nodes and created a role for File share. There are totally 3 Disks in the cluster, among three we have allocated 1 disk as Quorum Disk.When Node1 is powered off,...
View ArticleWindows 2012 R2 crashes during backup - Bug Check code 0x00000133
Hi,We have an HP DL580G7 server, OS Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter Core with Hyper-V that is crashing repeatedly due to Bug Check codeĀ 0x00000133 . The error most occurs during backup. The server...
View ArticleUnderstand Clustering
Hello Team,Could you please help me with Clustering articles. I have seen other article of Ask DS , can you please suggest which one to start off so that I could work and troubleshoot the issue ?Thanks..
View Article2016 to 2008 R2 cluster
Can I add a Windows Server 2016 node to a Windows Server 2008 R2 cluster?Reza Negarestani
View ArticleData move from ClusterA (iSCSI) to ClusterB (FC)
Have existing Server 2012R2 cluster with iSCSI storage, need to move to new Server 2019 cluster with FC storage.Do I have it right that one could do any:1) Downtime (VMs moved via LAN from old cluster...
View ArticleGet-Volume returns all volumes within Windows Failover Cluster instead of...
Hello all. This is my first entry in the forums, so apologies if I miss something or have this in the wrong place. I am using the Get-Volume command in PowerShell to return all the volumes located on...
View Articleerror FailoverClustering-Manager - I don't have a cluster
Hi everybody.a few days ago known a long series of errors as i said in the title ... I checked that the associated service is disabled because i do not have a cluster but nothing changes. I checked...
View Articlefor the second time in 6 weeks a 6 Node S2D cluster goes down after a simple...
We are using a 6 node DELL R740xd. The cluster passed the cluster validation test.the node's did not reboot but the Cluster Shared Volume was off line and came only back to live after a 22! hour...
View Article2 nodes fail over cluster and disk witness quorum fail on fail over test
Hi,I have configured Windows Server 2012 R2 failover cluster with 2 nodes.I set quorum mode to disk witness with mapped disk from SAN Storage which is connected to servers directly.and configured...
View ArticleWhen to run Cluster validation wizard on a new node
I have an existing production multi-site/subnet 2012 failover cluster and I'm going to be adding a new node per site. I'm just trying to verify when I run the Cluster Validation wizard, is it before I...
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