Active Directory Domain Services: Best practice for 3 Domain Controller...
Hello. I have some clarifications.1. What would be the best practice for an environment with 3 Domain Controller Servers when i want it to be high-available?2. If the Primary DC Server is down because...
View ArticleLive Migration and WorkGroup Cluster on windows 2019
Hi ,I found the following document about live migration and work group cluster on Windows...
View ArticleEvict node failed
Hi, what is the procedure for removing a cluster hyperv (Mix 2012R2 and 2016) node that can not be connected to the cluster again? Thank you.
View ArticleHyperV Failover cluster backup leaving avhdx files
I am running a 4 node 2016 Hyper V failover cluster with about 30+ servers. I just noticed one of my servers is leaving behind a .avhdx .avhdx.mrt and a .avhdx.rct file after every backup with DPM...
View ArticleSyncing updates between domain controllers, DHCP, SQL and IIS servers
Hello,So I'm curious about having Windows updates being synced between machines. From my understanding if you have 2 domain controllers on the same domain (Server 2016) and they're set to have...
View ArticleWindows Fileshare witness is not accessible | After patching
Hi Experts,Our windows team have applied patches on two nodes of a cluster.Post patch,file share witness is accessible from one server and from other it is not accessible.Hence After deep dive,we could...
View ArticleUpdating hyperv cluster
Hi,I know it's not recommended to upgrade the OS, okay!if we choose to upgrade the hyperv cluster nodes with 2012 R2 to 2016, what are the recommendations? - Remove the cluster node; - Remove...
View ArticleMicrosoft Hyper-V Cluster “CSV Auto Pause due to STATUS_IO_TIMEOUT (c00000b5)”
Hello Team,We received the event id 5120 in couple of our Hyper V nodes which are in the cluster.The error mentioned in the Title is the error that shows up with below descriptionCluster Shared Volume...
View ArticleRead Scale availability group
We are designing a new SQL farm in our company, they want HA/DR (so a WSFC cluster), but we only need DR for some certain Databases not HA, due to the amount of databases. These other Databases will...
View Articlequorum
Hi,If there is two node and both nodes are up and running but the heartbeat lost , in that case how node will decide who aill be active Thanks
View ArticleAD-Detached Cluster and Access to WSFC console (Access Denied with local...
Hello,due to specific constraints in my environment I've had to build an AD-Detached WSFC to host a SQL AAG.The cluster was configured with a specific user created specifically on each machine of the...
View Articlehow to configure 2 DC server and 1DR server mirror in 2016 sql server
hihow to configure 2 DC server and 1DR server mirror in 2016 sql serverPl suggest
View ArticleServer 2016 MSMQ cluster role - bind to multiple cluster IPs
We have a two node cluster (Server 2016 datacenter) where I've added the MSMQ cluster role. I have two networks this cluster can talk to, 192.168.0.0 and 10.10.0.0. The message queuing role has both...
View Articles2d down after adding hard drives
s2d newbie here. This is a test environment, so nothing is probably supported hardware. the setupRunning two optiplex 3050's with windows server 2016. They each have a spinning disk and an ssd via...
View ArticleCluster upgrade same computer name and ip
Hello All,I am about to start a cluster upgrade from 2012 R2 to 2016. There are a lot of good guides out there and the process seems strait forward. I would like to know if it is ok the keep the same...
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Can't back to online the DAG cluster.
Hi,Good Day!May I ask if anyone have encounter below error. Please see the screenshot for the reference.Thanks,Raymond
View ArticleEvent id 153 ONLY when host has a VM on it
I have a 3 node cluster with a iSCSI / MPIO CSV. This has been running for about 1 1/2 years with no issue.Host 1 is the current owner of the CSV. I verified that by going to Disk Management on host 2...
View ArticleS2D on 2019 - Perhaps a bug
Hi,I have my homelab with two Dell R710 with 6 HDD and 2 NVMe in both servers.I have configured two virtual disks, created as nested mirror-accelerated parity, but if I suspend a node and reboots it,...
View ArticleUnable to get Failover cluster working with 2 Nodes Hyper V setup
Hi We have two nodes Failover Cluster Node A Node Bconnected with MSA2040 via 4 SAS connectors As soon as Node A restart Node B unable to see storage and all the VMs restarts rather failover 1- Both...
View ArticleVMs on nodes going into a locked or hung state.
I have a brand new Hyper V Cluster using Server 2019 Core with 6 nodes. Everything updated hardware-wise from the manufacturer (HPE) and connected SAN (netApp). Everything updated software-wise from...
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