MPIO Disk not managed by a server
I am trying to setup a Hyper-V Cluster, but I have an error:Disk test 0 from node hv2 has the following number of usable paths to the target magazine object: 5Disk test 0 is not managed by the hv1 same...
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I have two Hyper-V server set up in a cluster. Failover works correctly, but I constantly receive an error from one of the servers:Cluster network name resource 'Cluster Name' failed registration of...
View ArticleIssues etting up clusetring between data centers
Am I missing something or is Microsoft being a bit dishonest when they call clustering "High Availability"I'm attempting to setup a pair of clustered servers to perform clustered Task Scheduler, but am...
View ArticleUNMAP CSV volume
Hi,We have a large enviroment in which we have clusters with only 2012R2 hosts and clusters with only 2016 hosts. We're looking at getting some unused storage back in our storage arrays (block storage...
View ArticleThe simplest way to balance web applications on Windows CORE.
Hi everyone! I have a .NET web application running on Windows 2016 server CORE and I would like to make a second instance of the same web application. How can I balance those two servers? The simplest...
View ArticleCluster validation report
Hi ExpertsI am using Windows Server 2016 Failover Cluster Manager which has two sql nodes, when i run validate cluster does it create any local user account and delete it during the validation. any...
View ArticleiSCSI Initiator - Connection Failed
I am having a problem with one of our cluster nodes and it's connection the SAN where all the VMs are stored. I came in this morning to find a warning on the SAN, with a bit of further investigation I...
View ArticleCan be FC node upgraded from Windows 2012 to Windows 2019 directly ?
I have been running Windows 2012 R2 cluster with SQL server 2014 instances. Below is the setup. Stretched cluster. abc.xyz.com - Cluster host-name. 2 Nodes at site 1.2 Nodes at site 2.All nodes are...
View ArticleS2D and multiple networks question
Hello, we are getting ready to setup a 2 node cluster for storage spaces direct to house FSLogix data for our RDS environment.My plan is to put the two cluster nodes on the same network as our 4 RDS...
View ArticleMultiple File server role on a 2 nodes Failover Cluster
Hello, after several searches on the Internet, I did not find an exact answer to my question. I would like to know if a configuration of 2 file server roles on the same cluster is supported and can be...
View ArticleDomain rename and Hyper-V Cluster
Hello, I'm planning an Active Directory Domain rename. We have also a cluster with Hyper-V 2016, I've tried to search about this operation but somewhere it seems that's supportted and somewhere they...
View ArticleWindows cluster fileshare witness fails to configure - win 2019
I encounter this error when i try configuring the file share witness on 2 node windows cluster on AWS EC2 instances. I ensured cluster and windows node objects have enough permission on share folder....
View ArticleWindows 2008 R2 Cluster refuses to start on one node.
Hi,I'm having an intresting error on a SQL ClusterSystem is 2*Windows 2008 R2 SP1 & SQL 2008 R2 with A/P-cluster configuration.After a crash which happened by unknown reasons one of the nodes...
View ArticleS2D IO TIMEOUT when rebooting node
I am building a 6 Node cluster, 12 6TB drives, 2 4TB Intel p4600 PCIe NVME drives - Xeon Plat 8168/768GB Ram, LSI9008 HBA.The cluster passes all tests, switches are properly configured and the cluster...
View ArticleWindows Server 2016 Failover Cluster Fails Active Directory Validation
Hello All.I have an environment with three domain controllers all within the same site that are replicating between each other. We set up a Failover Cluster on two Windows 2016 nodes and noticed that...
View ArticlePermission only to do the cluster fail over activity
He TeamI do have a requirement to provide an AD account access only fail over cluster management of few servers. The account shouldn't have any permission to restart\shutdown servers OR any other high...
View ArticleNetwork Load Balancing
Hi All,I hope someone can help and offer some advice. I am studying for my MCSA. I have arrived at chapter 5 Configuring High Availability, as part of the exercise I have to create two nodes and one...
View ArticleCluster went offline despite quorum - is this scenario normal?
We have a 3 node cluster for an AAG. 1 node is the primary SQL server, 1 node is the secondary SQL server and there is a quorum node.Last week the secondary SQL server had an issue where it was likely...
View ArticleWhen adding a new node to an existing failover cluster it becomes a possible...
Hello.Apologies if this is not the correct place for this.I have a WSFC that has multiple nodes which have SQL Server 2016 SP2 installed on them. We are running Windows Server 2016 Datacenter.When I...
View ArticleNo option to add IP address resource to WSFC cluster
Following instructions to configure an availability group on Azure SQL Server virtual machines in different regions, I'm trying to add an IP address resource to the cluster as described at step 10, but...
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