Failover Cluster Validation Fails with SMB Share Access Error
The two-node cluster is set up and running without any problems as far as I can tell BUT: The cluster validation test gives this warning.Failed to validate Server Message Block (SMB) share access...
View ArticleHyperV on different server versions
Good day,I am in the process of upgrading my HyperV servers from 2012r2 to 2016 and came across a question I had not thought about. Can I run a clustered HyperV system with two <g class="gr_ gr_171...
View ArticlePowershell command to add "IP Address" to a "Network name" resource.
Hi,Within Windows failover cluster manager I can see my SQL 2012 Always On Availability Group under Roles. Within the Availability Group; I can add a Client Access Point (AG listener) - manually in the...
View Articlegot event: LocalEndpoint xxxxxx:~3343~ has missed two-fifth consecutive...
Hello Team,We are getting missed heartbeat alerts. below is the log from cluster log:Node 1: Executing locally gumId: 11221, updates: 1, first action: /dm/update...
View ArticleScale out Cluster
I have an application which is clustered, currently it writes a log to the hardware that is the active host, if the cluster fails over then the log is created and updated on the new host.Can I use a...
View ArticleCluster quorum best practice for SQL AlwaysON
Hello, I have a SQL alwaysON setup between on-prem and Azure SQL server (IaaS). Its a 2 node cluster and have configured file share witness for the quorum( On one of the Azure server). There is a...
View ArticleCSV Autopause - Single client contification start.
HI,I've just got a warning from my cluster that one of my CSVs was stopped. But I just dont get what was going on.From the Failoverclustering-CsvFs protocol I get this message:"Volume...
View ArticleNLB Multicast Error
Hi all,We have two server are running under vmware(esxi) environment. And each VM machine is running Windows 2016 Std. OS and one static IP address. I installed and configured NLB on each server as per...
View ArticleCross subnet communication to Windows failover cluster
Hello Hopefully this is the right location to post this, Our team is setting up Windows failover cluster to be access from across subnets. initially this is in a test environment. the issue we are...
View ArticleUnable to add the node in multi subnet cluster
This is 3 node production cluster ( multi subnet cluster). It was working fine. I evicted the DR node and tried to add it back, it throws an error.I am having issues only in adding the DR node. However...
View ArticleStorage space direct NIC setup
We have a Failover cluster of 3 nodes each node having 2 x 1Gbps NICs which are teamed and used for management and VM traffic on the front (the team is also a trunk carrying traffic for multiple...
View ArticleCluster Disk Driver Letter Fiasco
I have a 4 node cluster and my Cluster Disk on node1 is assigned a drive letter D: If I fail over my node1 to node2, the Drive Letter from Node1 gets assigned to Node2 and the Node2 Drive letter D:...
View Articlelogon failure when accessing cluster file resources
running a 4 node nested vm hyper-converged failover cluster. On one of my nodes, i can not acceess the shared cluster resources. Logon failure: the user has not been granted the requested logon type...
View ArticleCluster Aware Update (CAU) on Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) with Pre-staged...
I have been running into a bug with CAU in RS1-14393 where it doesn’t accept the Pre-staged AD Object (fails both as Powershell parameter and GUI config), and instead tries to generate/submit a new...
View ArticleMultiple SQL Cluster (2008, 2012, 2016) on a Single Windows Cluster
Hi Experts,Can I have multiple SQL Cluster configured on a single environment (Windows Cluster?For example - I have a 5 Node Windows 2012 R2 Windows Failover Cluster on which I want to configure 2...
View ArticleSetting up Storage for Clustering
We have 3 Dell servers we are trying to put into a cluster, and a 4th machine will be added later (VM). My issue now is I do not know how to set up the storage on the machines PRIOR to creating the...
View ArticleMicrosoft Cluster issues
Hi All,I am trying to move a node from one node to another using Move-ClusterGroup, it moves cluster group from active node to passive node but after few seconds it is coming back to the previous...
View ArticleSet-ClusterLog Powershell Problem
I'm working on my first Hyper-V cluster on Server 2016. Going through the validation, I have a warning about cluster log size less than 1536. So I search how to increase that and find:...
View ArticleSQL Server Virtual Machine Live Migration Too Slow
Hi, I have a two node, Hyper-V Cluster with about a dozen VMs. As time went by migrating between nodes have slowed. Specifically a SQL Server with about 300 GB disk takes about four minutes to move...
View ArticleStorage Space Direct - Storage Jobs taking too long
Hi,I have four node S2D cluster with 2019 OS. This is lab environment with SSD+HDD disks and 10Gbps network. Cluster is working fine, I have great performances but there is one issue that bothers...
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