File Share Witness failed
Background2 Node SQL cluster physical non virtual utilizing node and file share quorum. This configuration has been in place for around a year and suddenly the File Share Witness is unable to be...
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This cluster has been up and working for maybe a year and a half the way it is. There are two nodes, running Server 2012. In addition to a couple network interfaces devoted to VM traffic each node...
View ArticleShadow Copies on 2012 R2 File Server Cluster
Hello all!I've inherited a two node physical 2012 R2 file server cluster that contains a few SMB shares on a single clustered disk. I'd like to enable shadow copies for this shared disk but want to...
View Article2012 R2 Hyper-V cluster nodes hang
Hi,We have a two node Hyper-V cluster. ~ once a week either one of the cluster nodes hangs during a backup (Backup Exec 2014 Vray edition) causing all VM's to restart to the other node. When a node...
View ArticleIssue with NLB cluster on windows server 2003
Hello,I have an issue with my NLB cluster that I cannot reach the first node when using it.For example : I have a website, with a name declared on DNS, when I try to reach it, automaticly I have no...
View ArticleWhats the impact of disabling “Microsoft Failover Cluster Virtual Adapter...
Hello,I have System Center Advisor telling me to disable “Microsoft Failover Cluster Virtual Adapter Performance Filter" on any host cluster that hosts a guest cluster. In my case, all of them. KB:...
View ArticleWindows Failover Cluster Read Only Account
Hi,We do not want all users that are members of the local administrators group on a server to be make changes on a failover cluster.On the cluster permissions we are looking to change the...
View ArticleFileServer Resource Failed - No storage is available message.
1st node: TSMCTN (Working Fine)2nd node: TSMCTADM (FileServer-(TSMCTNADM)(Cluster Disk 3) Failed)First attempt, I try to delete File Server Resource without CAP (Client Access Point), it give me the...
View ArticleHigh Page Pool Memory Usage on a Windows 2012 R2 Hyper-V Cluster
Hi, may someone has a similar Problem or can give me a helping Hand. I'm having a 9Node Cluster ( Windows 2012 R2 , fully Patched from RTM Version on ) The Cluster is connected to a SAN which is an...
View ArticleSetting up Hyper-V Cluster
I'm looking at setting up a Hyper-V cluster with two nodes. I would like to use the following:* 1 NAS device that will be shared storage. This device is bullet proof in that is has redundant...
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Active Directory Certificate Services service can not start - Running on...
We have got a 2 node Failover Cluster running a shared service called ClusterCAS1. This has 2 dependencies , a shared disk that is up and running .. this is where it contains the database and the logs....
View ArticleCluster Validation Failed - MSDSM.SYS
Had to rebuild one node of a Server 2008 R2 Enterprise SP1 cluster and am failing validation - have installed KB275407 on both nodes but when I run validation the original node reports msdsm.sys is QFE...
View ArticleEntries in clustering log for DFSR checkpoints
Hi,I am looking through our cluster logs trying to rule out errors and I notice a repeat instance of this error for all of the cluster disks every 5 minutes:ERR [RHS] Error 161 from ResourceControl...
View ArticleUnexpected error while validating File and Print Sharing network binding
Hello,I was successfully running a two node Windows Failover Cluster of Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V VMs. Now the problem is that Failover Cluster shows Node1 is Up and Node2 is Down.Cluster Event on...
View ArticleIssue after enabling CSV Cache in Windows Hyper-V Server 2012 R2
We are currently running a Hyper-V 2012 R2, 2 Node Cluster which contains 40 virtual machines across 7 CSV volumes.I was looking at improving performance and noticed that we did not have the CSV cache...
View ArticleHyper-V Cluster - VM Heartbeat Monitoring
Hi, Could someone help me understand this. I have a lot of nodes in a cluster, with regards to how failover works i simply want VMs and CSV be moved\restarted on other nodes in the event of total node...
View ArticleMixing server models as cluster nodes
I've done several Windows failover clusters but we have always used identical hardware with identical specs and identical models. Now, we want to start mixing models as we add nodes to a current...
View ArticleIssue accessing Shares via alias
Hi We have a two node file share cluster running windows 2012 r2 standard.we have configured two aliases in DNS(Cname) to access the clustered shares. the aliases point to the host record for the...
View ArticleCAU sees no updates
Hi,I'm trying to setup cluster aware updates. I've installed the feature and have all green checkboxes.I run SCCM for patching. I created a CAU collection and published all the critical/security...
View ArticleFailover nodes that are running inside of Windows Server 2012 virtual...
Hi,I Ran system advisor the other day and I'm getting this message: Failover clusters that are running inside of virtual machines may have problems with nodes joining the cluster. The problem occurs...
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