Need help to fix Windows 2008 cluster upgrade issue.
Hi,We did in-place upgrade from Windows 2008 to Windows 2008 R2 on first node in two node cluster {we did not notice or read the microsoft article which states it is not supported :( }. Now, after the...
View ArticleClustered Storage Spaces - issue with SAS interposers and all SATA drives...
We have an OEM storage vendor telling us that it is NOT recommended at this time to use SAS interposers with any SATA drives (regardless of brand or type (HDD or SSD)) and use it with Windows Storage...
View ArticleCSV running out of space
We have a 2012 Hyper-V Cluster with 4 nodes and 2 CSVs. Volume1 ran out of space last night and all the VMs on that Volume went into a paused state. I was sure I had plenty of space, but I extended...
View ArticleNode showing down in Cluster.
I will try to make this as simple as possible. Here is the setup.2 node cluster setup as Node and Disk majority. Both servers ServerA and ServerB were online and functioning previously. Sometime...
View ArticleEncrypting a Clustered Data Volume on Windows 2008 R2 Datacenter Cluster
Operating system is Windows 2008 R2 Datacenter. I have 2 machines clustered together using an ISCSI connection to the data volume. How would I encrypt the data on the clustered volume? Bitlocker does...
View ArticleExtending CSV Volume from a wrong current node
Hello there,I have just extended one of the CSV Volumes in my Failover Clustering environment from a wrong node owner. Although in the Failover Clustering console the total capacity of the extended...
View ArticleWindows failover cluster Ready for SAP ERP
Hi, we have configured windows failover cluster 2008 r2 sp2 2 node on physical environment we have not used any virtual environment i.e hyper - v, vmware ..... Now i need two virtual ip's for...
View Article2012R2 cluster csv - no access to storage and in redirected mode
Hi,I have a two node 2012R2 cluster backed by a shared SAS JBOD. The cluster passes all validation tests - most specifically it passes the storage checks with flying colours.It's using shared storage...
View ArticleScale Out File Server Clustering - Storage Failure Issue
Hi,I am trying to build a SOFS cluster which is backed by two iSCSI NAS devices, but I seem to be having issues if one of the NAS devices fails.here is what I have (all systems are based on SERVER 2012...
View ArticleDisimalar RAID Configurations and Validation Check in a Two Node Failover...
I am currently trying to put together a two node Windows 2012 Hyper-V cluster. I have two identical servers except for the RAID configuration. On one server I have a RAID 10 with 4 disks which are a...
View ArticleStandard Failover Cluster VS. Hyper-V over SMB? What Are The Pros and Cons in...
Hi, I need some guidance, please:Failover Cluster VS. Hyper-V over SMB? What Are The Pros and Cons in Plain English?Thanks in advanced.
View ArticleRDMA device support
Is there a support matrix or list of adapters and switches that support RDMA in a SoFS?
View ArticleHelp! Single Node using all of its memory on Server 2012 Cluster
I have two Server 2012 Nodes (Dell R620s) running a Hyper-V Cluster using CSVs on a Dell PS4100 SAN.Each Node has 256GB of Memory, and currently each node only runs two Virtual Machines with Assigned...
View ArticleHelp requred in CSV and CIFS Shared drive in HA
I am deploying a application in HA where multiple servers will be used to maintain HA. The application consist of Web server, Database server and lot of Images stored on SAN.Current configuration...
View Articlemove vm from a hyper-v host to a cluster
First,thanks for the help.I had ahyper-vserverwith severalvm.installing anadditionalhyper-vserver. Create aclusterwithtwo servers and createserverreplicas.I haveshared storageSMB3.0rateonanother...
View ArticleHow to move a Virtual Machine from one host to another in Hyper V
HI,We have two Infra server (infra1, infra2), infra1 and infra2 are clustered. When we shutdown infra1, a VM from infra1 automatically moved to infra2, now my question is when we start the infra1 how...
View ArticleWindows 2008 file sharing cluster enumeration
Is there a way to enumerate file shares in a Windows 2008 file sharing cluster? We are moving to a new SAN and using robocopy to move the files. We just need a report on the current file share...
View ArticleStrange errors regarding RPC and WMI after migrating Hyper-V from Windows...
Hi all;Suppose I have created a two-node Hyper-V cluster with a fibre channel shared storage in Windows Server 2012. Everything work fine except some issues. One of the is that when I want to configure...
View Articlemysql,mysql slave can't online simultaneously
i deploy mysql,mysql salve as generic service in cluster management console,when right click the cluster choose bring application online,only one service will online at the same time,the failed service...
View ArticleClustered File Server role failed to start
We have 2 nodes Windows 2012 cluster. Active Directory is on Windows Server 2000.After configured the File Server role successfully. It start the role, failed with the following message.Failed to bring...
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