Clustered file server in separate locations
Hello. Have a quick question regarding setting up a clustered file server. Basically my company has three locations in 3 different cities (all within about a 120 mile radius of one another) and they...
View ArticleDisk resource goes offline on File Server Cluster on Windows 2008 Storage Server
Hello,We are having two node file server cluster and there are 4 disk resources on two clustered services.Two days back I have added one more disk resource and it goes to offline mode intermittent.When...
View ArticleServer 2012 R2 Cluster Failover Timing
I am running an experiment with clustered servers to understand failover timing and failover recovery. I have a couple of questions I was hoping this forum could help me with. My setup is:Two...
View ArticleServer 2012 R2 Cluster Failover issues during catastrophic failure of iSCSI...
On this posting, I detailed a simple two node Server 2012 R2 cluster configured with a single file server role. Both nodes accessing shared iSCSI storage. Client system is performing a simple looped...
View ArticleFail Over Cluster ( Testing Machine: 1 desktop )
Hello,For your advice please.I Have 1 desktop, Microsoft Server 2012 R2 is installed.Current Set-up:1 Domain Controller (VM)2 VM (Microsoft Server 2012 R2 is installed)The 2 VM are configured for fail...
View ArticleFail over policies in Cluster 2012
if the clustered role fails more than the maximum time period specified, it will be left in failed state.What is this settings? I don't want cluster group to go into failed into state rather than I...
View ArticleRenaming a windows 2012 Cluster
What are the implications if i rename the WINDOWS 2012 Cluster. This is a 2 node windows 2012 and SQL 2014 cluster and after it is up and running we see it is outside the naming convention by a few...
View ArticleServer 2012: Where did the PersistentState property go?
Hi.I'm using WMI to check various properties of cluster ResourceGroups. (SELECT * FROM MSCluster_ResourceGroup)I'm finding a Resource Group (of type SQL Server Availability Group) successfully...
View ArticleAD-less Cluster Bootstrapping Doesn't Work
We have a Server 2012 R2 Cluster running our production VMs, and were looking at removing the need for our last physical DC. We have two other DCs running as VMs. However testing whether the cluster...
View ArticleHyper-V Quorum Disk held on SOFS Cluster
Following a successful SOFS cluster implementation, the next stage is to implement a Hyper-V cluster.Question - I have created a 1GB quorum disk for use with my HV cluster, which is held on the...
View Articlehelp me to understand windows clustering at VM , Host, level .
kindly help me to understand windows clustering at VM , Host, level . appreciate if any videos are available
View ArticleNeed to migrate a Hyper-V cluster from 2008 R2 to 2012 R2
We have a Hyper-V Cluster with 3 nodes, each running Windows Server 2008 R2 with the CSV on a Dell Equalogic iSCSI SAN. We want to upgrade the hosts (and therefore the cluster) from 2008 R2 to 2012...
View ArticleCAU Hotfix Plugin - The plug-in argument HotfixRootFolderPath has invalid value
Hi. I have 2012R2 cluster configured for CAU in self-updating mode with both WindowsUpdate and Hotfix plugins. The configuration went fine, however when I try to run CAU using these options, it will...
View Articlecluster shared volume has entered a paused state because of (c000000e)
I am running a windows server 2012 r2 hyper-v cluster with via datacore attached jbod storage (via iscsi).Situation: within the last 6 month this situation occured 3 times. It happened on different...
View Article3-node active/passive/passive multi site cluster
Configuration:Primary Data Center:2 of 3 nodes - One is active and one is passive.HA/DR Data Center:The 3rd node is located here in passive mode.Configured as above, if both nodes go down in the...
View ArticleLoad Balancing VMs across a Cluster. No VMM server
Howdy,We have a 3 node Hyper-V cluster with a bunch of VMs on it. None of the VMs are setup with Preferred Hosts and the Failback setting is set to Prevent Failback. Both of these are set just...
View ArticleCluster Services is DOWN
i have Windows Server 2012 R2 and the cluster services is down if i do restart for it , it will work for 30 Second then go down again when i checked the event viewer i found the main reason behind this...
View ArticleFailed state for writers at start of backup
Can anyone help or advise with this one please?We are using Hyperoo to backup VMs held on 2 CSVs, which are running from a SoFS.At present, as soon as the backup is scheduled to kick in, event ID 1544...
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Clustered storage iscsi path used
windows 2012 failover cluster , iscsi exposed targets , clustered storage get iscsi path used by shared clustered volumeI am attempting to discover the iscsi target used by my failover clustered...
View ArticleIs it possible to create Windows server 2003 Ent 64b bits guest clustering on...
Scenario:VM1 Guest: Windows Server 2003 Ent 64b.VM2 Guest: Windows Server 2003 Ent 64b.Physical Host 1: Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper V.Physical Host 2: Windows...
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