Windows 2012 R2 guest cluster on VMware ESXi.5.5 using EMC NS480 FC San fails...
The intended setup is to build a Windows 2012 R2 guest cluster across 2 physical WMware ESXi 5.5 hosts using physical RDM luns off the EMC NS 480 presented to the hosts. The 3 presented luns are using...
View ArticleClustering Configuration with Primary & Secondary Domain Controllers
Hello.I am trying to configure Failover Clustering on my Server 2012 computers.I have a primary domain, as well as a secondary domain.We will call them dc1.domain.com and dc2.domain.com.I have Failover...
View ArticleRestoring virtual machines
Hello!I thought it's very easy to find a step-by-step guide for restoring VMs (in clusters particularly), but after googling for some time I failed to find any artcile on restoring VMs from MS ......
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Critical error 1146
Hello! I Have Failover Cluster - 8 nodes on Windows Server 2012R2.Now i take error:1) On Cluster: 2) On the server What is it? This hotfix http://support.microsoft.com/kb/978527/en - not installed on...
View ArticleApplication hang / no access to C:\ClusterStorage Windows Server 2012 R2
Hello tech-guyswe have a "just another hang" problem.I am going to build a 4 node hyper-v failover cluster. At the moment we have two nodes. Node 1 & Node 2 Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter Eng -...
View ArticleWindows Server 2012 R2 with NLB/OCSP - Core/GUI
I try to understand what i have done wrong.I have two Windows Server 2012 R2 with a OCSP Cluster and a NLB Cluster. I removed the Server GUI after configuration. Now i wanted to look up some...
View ArticleCluster Failover
Hello,I have a cluster with two nodes. Is there a way to know exactly when the last failover happened, like an event or something like that?Thanks & Best Regards,Fabio S Rodrigues.
View ArticleCSV Online But Missing in Disk Management
Bit of a weird one to me...I have a CSV on a Server 2012 (non-R2) Hyper-V cluster node that is online and accessible at c:\ClusterStorage\CSVolume1 but it does not show up in Disk...
View ArticleWindows Server 2008 R2 SP1 2-Node cluster - Replace failed node
Hi - I have a two node Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 fail-over cluster (DHCP, File, Print) where one of the nodes have failed beyond recovery. What I would like to do is to evict the failed cluster node...
View ArticleCluster Aware Updating
I have 2 Storage Server 2012 boxes set up as a clustered file server. I have the Cluster Aware Updating role installed on both. When i run the wizard to install security updates, it seems to start OK,...
View ArticleLosing CSV LUNS during back-up
We have a problem that during the back-up of our 4 node Hyper-v cluster, the CSV's are placed in redirected mode and do not return back in the normal state when the back-up finishes on one of the...
View ArticleStrange problems with 2012 R2 Hyper-V Server creating cluster
I wasn't sure which forum to put this in to be honest, as it could be a general server issue, Hyper-V or clustering. I'm having a really frustrating issue with Hyper-V Server 2012 R2. I'm currently in...
View Articlecan you have a cluster within a cluster?
Hi,I have a Hyper-V Cluster with 6 nodes.is it possible to have SQL VMs running within this Hyper-V HA cluster and also hosting an SQL always on cluster?the SQL DBs will replicate to another server...
View Articlewhat different with failover cluster and HPC, can i install the SQL server on...
why i found there have some application can use the failover and HPC same time, can i use HPC as te SQL server high availability? what is the excatly different?
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IP addresses in a cluster
Hello!I've just created a guest cluster "GuestCluster"in my test labs and can't understand the following: when I was running Create Cluster Wizard I added two cluster nodes - Guest1 (10.3.0.81) and...
View ArticleCannot add storage to new cluster
Hello,I have a newly created failover cluster based on Hyper-V Server 2012. I currently only have one node, as this is an upgrade process where I'll add the other nodes as I move virtual machines...
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Installing .NetFramework 3.5 in VMs
Hello!Today I ran into rather strange issue: when I tried to add .NetFramework 3.5 to my virtual machines (Guest1 and Guest2, clustered) I got this error:It looks like Windows doesn't see the Windows...
View ArticleKerberos errors on the CNO, error in Server Manager and can't use Veeam
So I think this error is the same as Ive had before on Server 2012, where you move the CNO into a different OU, then after 60 days when the password for the computer account expires you get into...
View ArticleLive Migrations of VMs with VHD disks / Long blackout times
Hi all, I'm having some issues with live migrations of virtual machines that have .vhd files in our Windows 2012R2 hyper-v clusters. When I perform a live migration of a virtual machine that has a .vhd...
View ArticleThe IRPStackSize parameter on Windows 2012
Hello All: I need your help. Look at this article: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;285089 It's related to a setting that we use on Windows 2008 R2 on Clustered Servers, with...
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