Hyper-V Guest Cluster Node Failing Regularly
Hi,We currently have a 4-node Server 2012 R2 Cluster witch hosts among other things, a 3 node Guest Cluster running a single clustered file service. Around once a week, the guest cluster node that is...
View ArticleError while adding file share for File Server role
I'm getting this error when trying to add a file share on a Server 2012 R2 failover cluster:"Unable to retrieve all data needed to run the wizard. Error details: Cannot retrieve information from...
View ArticleChanging Storage for Cluster Resources
We have a Windows Server 2008 R2 Cluster set up that hosts SQL Services. We need to move the backend storage for the SQL Data/Log Drives to another storage. Can I -Shut down SQL (Drives:F,G) and...
View ArticleData Dedupe on 2012 clustered file server
This is probably a silly question so i apologise in advance, but i have a clustered 2012 file server, and I want to enable Data Deduplication. I have the role installed on both servers in the cluster....
View Article2 Node Cluster with Server 2008 R2 Cluster Disks Show as "Local Disk"
I have 2 Node Cluster with Server 2008 R2 with 13 LUNS presented as Clustered Disks within Failover Cluster Manger.When view Hard Disk Drives within Windows Explorer 10 Drives show as Type = Clustered...
View ArticleMigrating 2012 Hyper-V Cluster to 2012 R2 VMs with snapshots
I am planning the migration of our 2012 RTM cluster to 2012 R2 and will be using the Copy Cluster Roles Wizard for the move. Do I need to delete all my existing VM snapshots before migrating? The VM...
View ArticleProblems live migrating some VMs between nodes - 2012 R2 Cluster
Today we migrated from a old 2008 R2 cluster to a new 2012 R2 cluster, we are having problems with live migration of selected VMs between the 2 nodes currently in the cluster.When we attempt this we...
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One disk in failover cluster but needs multiple volumes
I made a dumb move and did my disk in MBR instead of GPT. Now I'm at 2.5TB but can only allocate 2TB because of the limitation.So I have about 300GB available on a cluster disk but can't seem to figure...
View ArticleUnable to move SQL instance to another node
Hi,I m unable to move SQL instance to Node B from A. When i checked the cluster.log, this is the only error i see just before it failed. Can some one help me fix this.- this was working earlier this is...
View ArticleCannot browse Internet for Microsoft NLB in VMWare
Hi,I have setup two Windows 2012 R2 virtual web servers that sit in Microsoft Network Load Balancing cluster. This cluster is configured using Multicast Mode.On firewall level, this cluster IP is NAT...
View ArticleClustering questions
hi All,i have a question on Windows Clustering.What happen to Cluster services if AD suddenly fail. Will the Cluster services still be able to service client requests till the time it failover or the...
View ArticleCluster.exe compatibility with other versions
I am trying to automate some cluster maintenance work in an environment with Server 2003, Server 2003 R2, Server 2008 and Server 2008 R2 failover clusters. Since the FailoverCluster module cmdlets in...
View ArticleInquiry about update KB2878635
Hello, i am wondering if the compound update KB2878635 is strictly concerning Windows 2012 or if a Windows 2012 R2 package will be available, because we are confronted to deadlocks in the Resource...
View ArticleWindows cluster error with Quorum Disk
Dear Allwe have problem with quorum drive.we facing bellow error while validating cluster configurationFailed to write file data on cluster disk 0 partition 2, failure reason: The disk structure is...
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Disk Volume GUID showing at the Failover Cluster Manager instead of the NTFS...
Dear TeamWe have installed win2k12 R2 server with windows fail over cluster. we have provisioned LUN ( EMC Storage) and added as mount point. After that we add the same disk in cluster (using failover...
View ArticleQuorum drive on cluster hidden from users on cluster.
The system administrator has created the cluster and hidden the quorum drive from all users. SQL Server has now been installed on the cluster. With the quorum drive hidden will there be any issues of...
View ArticleUsing StandAlone Hyper V Server 2008 R2 - clustering service not start - with...
Dear All,Kindly help me for the above.I have tried out the following:time sync with DC - checkedRe-install the feature and restart the serverscheck registry key value winreg - local service account...
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2012R2 - Validate a Configuration Wizard, Validate Network Communication...
I have two physical Dell R720's with Windows 2012R2 Datacenter and a HyperV VM (SCVMM 2012R2) with Windows 2012R2 Enterprise.I have been trying to get the SCVMM 2012 R2 wizard to build the cluster for...
View ArticleCluster validation stating an update needs to be installed, but when checked,...
I'm setting up a simple, two node, cluster in Server 2012R2. When doing the Validation test it states that the updates on one of my nodes is not up to date. However, upon further investigation, I've...
View ArticleCSV Direct IO When Using SAS/DAS?
I have set up a very simple POC for a 2-node HyperV cluster sitting on a Dell drive array. I have created a CSV and verified that failover of the VMs works as expected.I was thinking about CSV and how...
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