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I was reading MS documentation on Failover Clustering https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server-2012-R2-and-2012/dn265972(v%3dws.11). There is this note that I...
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Access to default Admin Shares with Failover Clustering
Dear all,I have a 2 node windows server 2016 standard edition cluster, which is used for SQL cluster. it's all virtual on Hyper-V 2016, and as far as I can tell everything is configured correctly and...
View ArticleUnable to mount the File cluster resource shares ( Windows 2016 Cluster) on...
Hi I have been trying to upgrade file cluster from windows 2008R2 to 2016. I decided to build new cluster in 2016 and do storage remapping from old cluster to new cluster which i was successful. I have...
View ArticleFailoverClusters Poweshell Module is not loading or listed even if the...
I made a cluster from 4 server nodes and all are joined to the cluster but I cannot use the powershell comands from the failover clustering powershell module.For some reason is not loading even if it...
View ArticleIs there a way to delay a resource auto start in a windows cluster?
Hi, I have setup a SQL Server Failover Cluster (2016 SP1) on a Windows Server 2016 for some tests and I was wondering if there is a way to change or add a delay on a resource or Generic Service. This...
View ArticleCombine WS 2012 and 2016 in same WSFC
Hi All:Months ago, during a migration (moving SQL to new virtualized hardware) I combined 2012R2 and 2016 Guest OS in the same WSFC, only needed during a 2 week migration and it worked well. Then I...
View ArticleS2D on 2019 - Perhaps a bug
Hi,I have my homelab with two Dell R710 with 6 HDD and 2 NVMe in both servers.I have configured two virtual disks, created as nested mirror-accelerated parity, but if I suspend a node and reboots it,...
View ArticleMigrate Failover cluster role SQL server to new cluster shared volume (server...
We have a 2-node failover cluster (windows server 2019) with iscsi cluster shared volume and on the cluster a SQL server 2017 role is running. We now have to migrate to our new storage. A new cluster...
View ArticleDisk Sharing - Server 2016 Cluster
I'm sure this is probably a newbie question, but it is so hard to find information.A person would think the ability to do this would be the most fundamental idea in failover clustering.I have Failover...
View ArticleDrain role Failed
We have three Node N-1, N-2, N-3. I drain role from N-2 and there10 VM's Moved out of 14. 4 VM are not moving getting error . Tried to move manually but the error same. Please assists All the Node in...
View ArticleServer 2008 R2 cluster share volume showing RAW
I have a msa san with 4 hosts running server 2008 r2 core and hyper v in a cluster. I recently expanded the cluster shared volume. Everything seemed ok as all nodes were able to see the now larger...
View ArticleWindows cluster - Hardware migration with Windows 2016 upgrade
Dear Cluster Gurus.This is my scenario:Existing setup : HP Gen 7 physical hosts with Windows 2008 R2 --> We have two node windows cluster (node1 & node2) running Oracle database / 3rd part...
View Article2-node (Hyper-V) Failover Cluster dependency on Domain Controllers, DNS...
We have recently configured a two-node Failover Cluster for a client (a large multi-campus university). It is a Storage Spaces Direct cluster and it runs HyperV virtual machines. It is Windows Server...
View ArticleErrors in Cluster Validation Test for two node File Server Cluster
Hello,I have a two Node Windows Server 2012 R2 File Server Failover Cluster.Today i ran the Cluster Validation Test with the result, that there are some errors:1. List Network Binding Order...
View ArticleFailover Cluster Manager - Ghost machine can't delete
Running a Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Clustered environment. Was running VMM 2016 Clustered w/ SQL 2016 Clustered as well (Currently all shut down). Ran into an issue with a VM where we had to delete...
View ArticleWill it cause any problems if two cluster nodes run with two different OS...
Hi experts, If my memory served my right, Microsoft's best practice always recommend all nodes in one cluster should run the same OS patch version. We decide to patch one node first and patch the...
View ArticleStorage Spaces Direct: Number of volumes per cluster?
In Planning volumes in Storage Spaces Direct it says:We recommend making the number of volumes a multiple of the number of servers in your cluster. For example, if you have 4 servers, you will...
View ArticleHow to Evict and Re-add node to 2016 Two Node Cluster
Hi All,Can anyone let me know the process to evict node from cluster and re-add again.This is 2 node 2016 Cluster.Paramesh KA
View ArticleProblems on deleting big files from CSV volumes
I have a 2 HCI cluster nodes, volume are CSVFS_ReFS, Im using Disk Speed to test storage performance, the results of the tests are ok, but when I delete the file created by the test (around 500GB) the...
View ArticleNIC Teaming - Host unmanageable
I have just installed Server 2012 Datacenter edition with 4 NICs. I setup HyperV and was thinking of setting up NIC teaming for the VMs, but whenever I launch the NIC teaming option from Server Manager...
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