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Hyper-V Virtual Machine Move Fails to another CSV - General Access Denied...
Good Morning,I setup a 2 nodes Hyper-V fail-over cluster 2012 R2 with external SAN storage.I am running to an issue where a VM fails to move from one CSV to another. The VM VHDX that I am testing with...
View ArticleWhy does my cluster name appear to be CLUSTER NAME
Can anyone help? I've setup my failover cluster and I was having issues change the heartbeat TTL. Turns out the my cluster name is "CLUSTER NAME" not the one I thought I'd setup. Why has this...
View Articlemigrate file failover cluster from windows 2003 R2 to a new domain
HiMy company recently bought another small company. This company had windows 2003 R2 failover cluster and now we have to migrate it to windows 2012 R2 cluster.What I have done is got 2 new servers...
View ArticleHyper-v Validation Report - VM Paths do not appear accessible to all nodes
We have a two node hyper-v cluster with a two node SOFS. When validating the cluster for our virtual machines we get the following in the report: The following virtual machines have referenced paths...
View ArticleRunning chkdsk casues Cluster Shared Volumes to go offline
Basic setup at Production site:2x Dell R730 running Windows 2012 R2 Standard (Windows updates current as of June 2016). Cluster passed Validation tests, with the exception of some warnings due to iSCSI...
View ArticleReplace a physical disk resource in a Windows 2003 SQL cluster
Hello All. I am in a situation where I need to replace a SAN disk in windows 2003 SQL cluster with a another disk with larger size. I cannot go for an expansion of the drive. here is my plan but since...
View ArticleWindows 2012 R2 - Hyper-V. Shared CSV, iSCSI and SATA.
Hey Guys, I would like to build a 2x Node Hyper-V cluster using a 3rd computer with 6x SATA HDDs as my "Shared Storage". I would like to be able to do things like live migration of one VM from one host...
View ArticleWindows 2012 NLB + ARR (proxy server functions redundant)
Hello everybody,I am developing a Windows Server 2012 R2 architecture (Virtualized all servers as Virtual Machines - VMs).The architecture foresees some application with WebServer IIS.The architecture...
View ArticleCan Cluster Aware Updating update mutliple nodes at once?
HowdyWe have way more capacity in our Hyper-V cluster than we currently use. We do patching via CAU and it takes a very long time. We have 6 nodes and since it goes one by one, each machine takes...
View Articleadding in a second ip address to SQL 2008 R2 cluster instance
2008 R2 cluster. I want to add in a second IP address on a different subnet, for backups. I don't want failure of the iP resource to be service impacting. My plan is to -add in new ip resource to the...
View Articlewindow 2012 r2 - cluster resource vs cluster disk
Hi all,I create a 2 node WSFC and added a cluster disk to it. I have not installed any clustered application and roles yet.I am playing around with the cluster resource (such as moving it around). On...
View ArticleDuplicate Services in Cluster
I have an issue where if a service is started manually on a cluster node the Cluster Service will not bring it down and I end up with duplicates of services running across Cluster Nodes. is there not...
View ArticleAny beter way to do it?
2 node cluster windows 2008 r2 with node and file witness share the cluster resource (DHCP) is on cluster disk F now, we need to decommision the storage which holds file share and cluster disk. We need...
View ArticleFailover/Failback settings for WSFC/AlwaysOn in Multi-Subnet envoronment
Hi All,I'm new to WSFC/AlwaysOn. What production settings do you use for Failover/Failback, Failover threshold, network thresholds for WSFC/AlwaysOn in Multi-Subnet in different geographies to guard...
View ArticleValidating Cluster Configuration
Hi Team, We have shared storage mapped with Windows Server to install Windows Failover Cluster. Before creating Cluster as a first step we want to run Cluster validation . Is it suggested to include...
View ArticleCluster Service terminated by GUM Task
I've had an issue where one of my Windows 2012 R2 Hyper-V hosts just decided to keel over and die on me. The event which I'm seeing is as follows:Log Name: System Source:...
View ArticleFile Share Witness on DFS
HiIs it supported by Microsoft to place a File Share Witness on a DFS Share in Windows Server 2012 R2 (Not DFS-R involved). All I have found is some documentation for Windows Server 2008 R2 that states...
View ArticleHyper-V Failover Cluster - VM's from a Host A migrated to Host B after the...
Hi Team,We have a Hyper-V Failover Cluster with the below setup:Host AHost BHost CHost DScenarios:1. During the shutdown of Host A, the some VM's migrated to Host B successfully2. Some VM's migrated...
View ArticleNode failed to join cluster - Cluster group could not be found
Hi,I'm having problems joining a Hyper-V cluster node to the cluster, after a reboot. It gives me a critical error in the event log: EventID 1070 - The node failed to join the failover cluster...
View ArticleCluster network degradation
Hi all, I'm just wondering if anyone else has experienced this.We have a 3-node 2012R2 cluster, all nodes running core. It's fine, the only test it seems to fail is the cluster communication networks...
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