disk failover works only in one direction winserver 2012R2
I have been banging my head against the wall trying to figure this out...I have a cluster with WS2012R2 The cluster is on 2 HP DL360 G7 all latest rom drivers etc..Connection to the disks is via emulex...
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I am trying to setup a WSFC with SQL Availability Groups. The question I have relates to the Computer Named Object (CNO) for the WSFC. By default the CNO is created in the computers container. I have...
View ArticleWindows Server 2012 licensing and storage for a cluster
Experts, I have a some questions, hope someone can help me. One comment before I start, I am not a systems person but I am the one that pays for it and I like to know what I´m buying (so please forgive...
View ArticleWindows server 2012 hangs when accessing a Cluster Shared Volume
Hi,We have 2 windows server 2012 Datacenter member of windows cluster, servers are running hyper-v. the 2 nodes hang once we try to access CSV volume (c:\clusterstorage\volume1) when i tried to do live...
View Articleserver 2012 high availability error
Hello Guys,I have two servers(Node A and Node B) with Server 2012 R2 OS. the two servers are set up in a 2 node cluster with a 4GB storage LUN as witness disk(quorum). Presently, from the fail...
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Strange issue while executing "Repair-ClusterSharedVolume" cmdlet...
Hi all;I want to check my CSV by using Repair-ClusterSharedVolume cmdlet. So when I execute it, the following error message appears:The CSV is in Maintenance mode, while I executing the above cmdlet.I...
View ArticleMultinode Failover Cluster on Windows 2012 Server validation test taking lot...
Dear All,We are facing problem of Huge time takes for cluster validation test on IBM Blade Server with Storage. The details are given below. Escalated with IBM OEM, confirmed that "there is no hardware...
View ArticleCSV volume missing from node after reboot?
I have a production HA cluster with Hyper V and CSV volumes, and 2 nodes. This last weekend while patching the nodes I am no longer seeing the volumes under the c:\clusterstorage. The only errors I...
View ArticleWindow Server 2008 R2 Active Directory and Terminal Services Clustering
Dear All,We are Window server 2008 Enterprise R2 with - Active Direcotry - TerminalmServices (thin client solution) - DHCP and DNS ServerCurrently we are aiming to implement for cluster for the server...
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Windows 2012 R2 Failover Cluster Hyper-V Invalid Class error when I'm trying...
Hi, in my test lab environment I created Windows 2012 R2 Failover Cluster with 4 Servers to get Hyper-V HA.I had no issues with Windows 2008 R2 or Windows 2012 before in same setup (2 NIC, FC HBA, SAN...
View ArticleXP Clients unable to access a 2012 Clustered File server by name, only by IP...
Enviroment: Failover Cluster 2012: Physical Nodes: srv-cluster01 and srv-cluster02Virtual Nodes: srv-fscluster;Domain: Only 1 Florest and 1 Domain, two Domain Controllers(Replicated and Checked);I has...
View ArticleCSV iSCSI LUN slower than iSCSI LUN on same netapp filer
First time for me playing with CSV and Windows Server 2012 R2. (Looking Forward to use SMB 3 and CSV Cache for hyper-v)Old productive using iscsi luns as vhdx/vhd storage from each hyper-v...
View ArticleWindows 2008 Cluster question on using a new cluster drive source from...
I have a two node Windows 2008 R2 enterprise SP1 cluster. It has a basic cluster setup of one (Q:)quorum disk and data disk (E:) which is 2.7tb is size. This cluster is connected to a shared Dell Disk...
View ArticleFailover cluster WMI Provider error 6237.
The only thing I can find is this link which gives a link to a hotfix.When I try to apply the hotfix, it says it is not applicable to my...
View ArticleQuestion about cluster node majority voting
We've been having problems with a DB instance crashing regularly. This weekend when it crashed, it seems to have taken the node it was on with it, or this was a separate incident...Right now I have 3...
View ArticleCreate failover cluster to host Windows 2012 DC, Exchange 2013 and SQL as VMs
One of our clients has running Windows Essential 2012, SQL and exchange 2007 as VM on VMware for 4 years without major issue. However, the physical server is getting old and have some hardware issues...
View ArticleWindows Server 2012 Hyper-V guest cluster oddity
Hi. If I can start by explaining the Server 2012 Hyper-V clustering set up I've just implemented (not necessarily 100% best-practice):2 x Dell R720 hosts, 8 x NIC ports (1 PCIE, 1 On-Board; 1 x 2-port...
View ArticleFailover Clustering, setting up AD and adding servers to Hyper V manager
First post over here. I have been playing with Server 2012R2, creating VMs etc. I thought of getting adventurous and tried to create a fail over cluster.1. Do I really need VMM to be able to manage two...
View ArticleServer 2012 R2 failover cluster
Hi Guys,I created a 2 node cluster using server 2012 R2 ..I have VMM 2012 R2 running on both nodes with SQL 2012 SP1VMM is configured for High availability and SQL always-on feature is also enabled.Now...
View Articledisk failover works only in one direction winserver 2012R2
I have been banging my head against the wall trying to figure this out...I have a cluster with WS2012R2 The cluster is on 2 HP DL360 G7 all latest rom drivers etc..Connection to the disks is via emulex...
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