Failover Cluster Manager : Add node wizard Error " This operation returned...
Hi Everybody,I have two node cluster and trying to add the third node (which is a Virtual Machine), all nodes are in different subnet and can communication with each other. While adding the third node...
View ArticleCluster Service Won't Start
Hello Everyone,Thanks in advance for your help and thoughts.We have a 2 node cluster running Windows 2008 R2 that runs our virtualized appliance, the witness disk resides on another server on the same...
View Article2012 R2 - First cluster, having issues creating Quorum witness disk
Its my first Server 2012 R2 Cluster and its based on a Dell VRTX server with shared storage.I've created the cluster and I'm now trying to setup the Quorum witness disk.In FCM Storage/Disks a 600mb...
View ArticleHow to delete the default "cluster" folder once the Quorum drive has been...
Installed a Windows Server 2008 R2 Failover Cluster. By default, the Failover Cluster Manager assigned the X:\ drive as the Quorum drive. Using Failover Cluster Manager, I was able to move\reassign...
View ArticleMove Fail over Cluster DHCP Database from d: to e:
I have a failover DHCP cluster on W2008 Ent R2 . need to move the database from D:\dhcp\db to the e:\dhcp\dbMy steps would bePlease correct me if I am going wrong somewhere. 1. Open DHCP manager and...
View ArticleCannot destroy cluster
Hello,We recently ran into some trouble with our cluster running Windows Server 2008 R2 after security patching was completed. The cluster did not return to normal and now when attempting to start the...
View ArticleList Services Information" fails during cluster validation Server 2008 R2
Server 2008 r2 entAn error occurred while executing the test. There was an error getting information about the running services on the nodes. There was an error retrieving information about the...
View ArticleUninstall custom Cluster Resource from passive node
I am trying to improve the uninstall experience of our custom cluster resources. The user of our product can uninstall the product on one of the nodes of the cluster. When the customer uninstalls our...
View ArticleWindows Server 2008 failover cluster in VirtualBox
Hi,I'm a Windows NT student and I need help with understanding how to do clustering using multiple Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise servers in VirtualBox 4.3.8. I have a Windows 7 host computer. I was...
View ArticleMoving VM storage in a cluster
Hello!There're three cluster disks in my test cluster: cluster disk 2-3-4, the disks 2 and 3 are CSV disks, the disk 4 is NOT a CSV disk.I have a vm named Single and I'd like to move its storage from...
View ArticleCreated Hyper-V Cluster, now cannot access iSCSI (not shared storage)
I created a 2 node Hyper-V Cluster that uses SMB3.0 for shared storage.On both of my Hyper-V hosts I have a iSCSI disk that go to 2 seperate VM's for data storage. Since I created the cluster the iSCSI...
View ArticleUnable to create 2-Node Cluster - Timeout Server 2012
Hello Everyone,I have 2-2012 servers that I'm trying to setup clustering with. Individually they can create their own 1 node cluster no problem, adding to an existing cluster doesn't seem to work...
View Articlec:\clusterstorage
Hello ,Environment: Windows server datacenter 2012 R2i am receives the below error when trying to add a virtual machine through Failover cluster manager: The Operation failed. Failed to create external...
View ArticleUnable to remote desktop to cluster nodes
I've just created a new two-node Windows Server 2008 failover cluster that is going to be used for an Exchange 2007 SCC deployment. I built the servers and configured them using an ip-kvm, so I was on...
View ArticleCluster-Aware Updating
Cluster-Aware Updatingi am reading about Cluster-Aware Updating and i installed on my hyper failover cluster .Till now i have some questions ....why should i use Cluster-Aware Updating although i have...
View ArticleCluster Disk X May Require running chkdsk.exe as part of the validation process
On a 2008 R2 2 Node cluster , when we run the 'Cluster validation Wizard' it gives an Alert before starting the validation processCluster Disk X1 May Require running chkdsk.exe as part of the...
View ArticleSan failover, disk timeout, iscsi and mpio
HiI am testing san controller failover. It takes around 2 mins for the second controller to come online after the first has failed.There are some registry settings that can be configured to increase...
View ArticleWindows Server 2008 x64 SP2 SAN disks falls off
Hello!We have a Windows Server 2008 Standart SP2 x64, which is connected via two HBAs QLogic QLA2440 to a Storage Xyratex F5402. On DS5402 are located three LUNs for the corporate file storage. These...
View ArticleEvent ID 1123 and Event ID 1122 (node lost communication with cluster)
Hi everybody!I need some help on how to correct getting Event ID 1123 and Event ID 1122 on one of two cluster nodes every hour. This is a two node cluster running Windows Server 2003 EE SP1 (NovaScale...
View ArticleHyper-V Cluster, with 2 nodes and 1 Virtual disk on a DAS with Windows Server...
I'm rather new to clustering and DAS and SAN storage devices so I am trying something rather simple to get me going, this is the scenario2 x Dell Servers of different spec both installed with Windows...
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