Adding S2D nodes or additional S2D cluster
HiWe are scaling up our HyperV S2D park. We already have two S2D HCI Clusters, each with 6 nodes. We now have 6 additional nodes ready to be brought into production.So the question pops up. Add these 6...
View Articleun-clustering hyperv nodes into standalone hosts
As the title suggests, I have a pair of server 2016 hosts which are currently operating as a 2-node failover cluster.Due to relocation of resources, I'm looking to break up the nodes into two...
View ArticleS2D StoragePool and Virtual disk size
Hi, All. I'm testing a failover cluster with S2D enabled on WS2019. I have 3 VMs with 2 HDD 5GB on each. I've created failover cluster, enabled S2D and created a storage pool.PS C:\Windows\system32>...
View ArticleValidate Windows Firewall Configuration error
HiI am getting the following error while validating a three-node Windows failover clusterThe Windows Firewall on node XX-XEV-UKW-DB1.xxdevtest.local is not properly configured for failover clustering....
View ArticleCluster Resource Name DNS record updated with IP of owner
Hi, I've a Windows Server 2008 R2 file server cluster to which I recently added a new Client Access Point. It's working except that every 24h hours the IP on the DNS record it's changed to the IP of...
View ArticleHigh Availability Cluster without Shared Storage
Hi Experts, I've been doing some research on how to achieve this goal and what's the best practice.We are planning to do a high availability cluster for our server running the following services.Active...
View ArticleFile Server Clustering between Two Domain Controller
Hi all,Is it possible to cluster file server between two active directory domain controller.As of now our server is still in standalone. We will soon add another active directory in our domain for...
View ArticleError with cluster-aware updating
I currently have one cluster with two nodes. I manually apply updates to the nodes with cluster-aware updating. The last several updates have gone fine on node 1 but I get an error "partially failed"...
View ArticleWhy Clustering Domain controllers is a bad approach?
Hi Experts,I would like to ask your insights about why is it bad to cluster domain and what are the risk . I have read some forums and pages concerning about this, but it seems I can't get a clear...
View ArticleMicrosoft NLB not working correctly
Hi,I have setup an NLB-cluster containing 2 servers. As an exampel: cluster called: corpweb (ip:10.0.0.3)servers called corpweb01 (ip 10.0.0.1), corpweb02 (ip 10.0.0.2)All Three are registred in DNS....
View Article[SOLVED] Disk Manager Hanging on Clustered (iSCSI) hosts
Just wanted to let you know a recent problem and fix I was having recently.Server 2016, Hyper-V hosts, Clustered, iSCSi storageDisk Manager would hang when I would open it. Also, I couldn't "connect"...
View ArticleHyper-Stretched Cluster with storage Replica, Windows 2016 Node Error
We have four HPE nodes in a HyperV-Stretched Cluster with two HPE 2040 Storage.One of the node has repeated the below mentioned error twice in 9 days time. This disturbs the whole cluster, bring the...
View ArticleAdding new storage to existing cluster
I currently have a dell VRTX running two blades (server 2012r2 on each). The blades are setup for failover clustering and are sharing storage. I have hyper-v installed on the vrtx. I'm quickly...
View ArticleTask or job Schedule Cluster with Windows Fail over Cluster
I need to create a 2-node cluster where cluster can use Windows Task Schedule. If one node goes offline the jobs should be able to run in the network.It is Windows 2016 Standard server environment. I...
View ArticleDFS share on Cluster
Hi guys,is it possible to create a DFS share on Clusterd disk? In my lab i have 2 nodes, which are in cluster called Cluster01. Both nodes have connected a drive (e:/) via iSCSI. On Cluster01 is...
View Articlethe specified disk or volume is managed by the microsoft failover clustering...
In Disk management 4 TB disk showing Reserved, i am trying to bring to online I am getting the error "The specified disk or volume is managed by the Microsoft Fail-over Clustering component. The disk...
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S2D pool still has free space, but cannot create more vDisks...
HiWe have a 6 node HCI S2D Cluster. SSD cache and HDD Capacity disks. The pool already has 10 LUNs (virtual disks) and still has 40TB of free space. All these LUNs are 3-way mirror. These LUNs are all...
View ArticleHowto get a clustered MSDCT in Azure on Windows Server 2019 with S2D to function
I've been pulling my hair for the last few days trying to get a FCI working with SQL Server and MSDTC, no matter what I try I can't get the MSDTC role to get online. I've followed the instructions...
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