Custer dependency in Domain
Hi,I have come across a confusing questionOne of our customer environment is having only one Windows 2008 Domain Controller in entrire FOrest and Domain. We know that its design problem which need to...
View ArticleReplace 2 Nodes in Cluster
Have a 2 node SQL Cluster & looking for best way to replace these with two new servers. I was thinking of removing 1 SQL node and then remove node from windows failover cluster mmc. Then unplug...
View ArticleWin32 API to get cluster List from domain
Hi , we are using NetServerEnum API to retrive the list of cluster from domain. But it failed with error 2127 on windows 2008 server and the cluster /list command also failed with same error.But if we...
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Live Migration to Best possible node
Hi,I have a 20 node cluster with virtual machine role.I would like know equivalent power shell command for migrating VMs to best possible node.When I right click on VM from cluster manager, I see below...
View ArticleReplacing NOde in a cluster
Replacing a node in a 2008r2 SQL cluster.Do you recommend storage validation? If so any idea how long that validation tajkes? how do I validate disks that are online?
View ArticleHow to change the static IP Address of a Failover Cluster Instance with...
I found this in the documentation for DHCP , but I am planning to use this machine for a DMZ implementation thus I cannot get away with DHCP?Get-ClusterResource "IP Address 172.24.11.0" |...
View ArticleBest Way to Achieve Redundancy for Radio Station Server
I'm working on installing a new system for my company's internet radio station. Currently, we are running a Windows program to play back the audio (on the host machine) and then a second application to...
View ArticleRepair Cluster Network Nam in Windows Server 2012
Hi,I am having issues as described in mention below KB link.http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2838043after applying this hotfix I have restart Nodes now I need to perform post installation task as...
View ArticleIntroducing Server 2012 R2 into a Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V failover-cluster
Hello, I have a couple Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V Host clusters with many VM's running on them. Is there a way I can introduce a Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V host server into each cluster, migrate the VM's...
View ArticleError Code 0x80071398
I just added the third node to my cluster and when I am trying to move the ownership of a cluster shared volume to it I am getting the following error0x80071398 cluster shared volume error: the...
View Articleroute add/delete broke my networking
I have run into a networking problem on my cluster, and I cannot figure out what changed.I had a cluster configured and working. Its access network is 192.168.10.0/24. I have other networks,...
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Extend CSV size after extending Lun
I have a Hyper-v cluster with Netapp Storage. After enlarging the LUN on the netapp is ran the diskpart and did an extend. This is showing up in diskmanager but the CSV stays the same size. How can i...
View ArticleProblem with Clustered DFS Namespace
We have a Microsoft cluster running on 2 Server Enterprise 2008R2 Servers with the FileServices Roles (including DFS roles). We have 3 Standalone DFS namespaces (roots) which have been up and running...
View ArticleServer 2012 R2 cluster error "An item with the same key has already been added"
Using the Configure Role option in Failover Cluster Manager on Server 2012 R2. After selecting Virtual machines from the list, upon enumeration I receive the following error:"An item with the same key...
View Articleevict Node
what is proper way to evict a node on 2008r2 cluster? Stop cluster service on the node first or not? See conflicting articles
View ArticleNLB Manager donot show the other host
Hello a few months back, I installed and configured Windows NLB on a couple of exchange CAS servers and everything seems to be working fine (still working fine). However, the other day when I opened...
View ArticleCannot create a SMB Application File Share in 2012R2
I am trying to create a SOFS on Windows Server 2012R2 but cannot create the application file share via Failover Cluster Manager. I have a created a Clustered Shared Volume using JBOD and storage...
View ArticleAdd 2012 R2 node to an existing 2012 cluster
hello all. I currently have a 4 node 2012 cluster (nodes 1-4). I have 4 more new nodes loaded with 2012 R2 (nodes 5-8) . I would like to add nodes 5-8 into the existing 2012 cluster housing nodes 1-4,...
View ArticleWindows 2008 R2 Cluster failover issues
Hi all,I used to be quite proficient in Windows 2000/2003 clustering. I wanted to update my skill set so I have setup a 2008 R2 cluster at my home. Please note that this is in my home and is not...
View ArticleCluster Shared Volume Offline on Windows server 2012 R2
Hi All,I keep getting this error on my Windows Server 2012 R2 Cluster: "cluster shared volume is no longer accessible from this cluster node because of error '(1460')". I also get I/O timeout errors as...
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