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Installing .NetFramework 3.5 in VMs
Hello!Today I ran into rather strange issue: when I tried to add .NetFramework 3.5 to my virtual machines (Guest1 and Guest2, clustered) I got this error:It looks like Windows doesn't see the Windows...
View ArticleWindows Server 2008 R2 SP1 2-Node cluster - Replace failed node
Hi - I have a two node Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 fail-over cluster (DHCP, File, Print) where one of the nodes have failed beyond recovery. What I would like to do is to evict the failed cluster node...
View ArticleDAG Kerberos Authentication Issue Exchange 2010 on 2008R2 Servers
I have 2 Exchange 2010 servers in a DAG. The witness server is in site A along with one the Exchange servers. The second Exchange server is in a DR site. The DAG has been functioning fine for 1.5 yrs....
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...
View ArticleShould one use MPIO and/or CSV in a Windows 2012 R2 guest cluster?
Should one use MPIO and/or CSV in a Windows 2012 R2 guest cluster using VMware ESXi 5.5 presented Fiber LUN RDMs.If MPIO were implemented is there a preference for HW manufacturer DISM vs. MS DISM in a...
View ArticleIs CIFS Share in Netapp Filer supported as File Share Witness?
Hi All,I'm currently setting up a Windows 2008 R2 Cluster and I'm having a hard time making a CIFS share work as a File Share Witness. Is this a supported configuration?Thank you!adlpena
View ArticleWindows 2012 R2 Hyper-V clustering using "share nothing" strategy
Greetings,I have been trying to embrace the share nothing strategy Microsoft has put forth with Hyper-V clustering. By definition, "A shared nothing architecture is a distributed computing...
View ArticleCluster Failover
Hello,I have a cluster with two nodes. Is there a way to know exactly when the last failover happened, like an event or something like that?Thanks & Best Regards,Fabio S Rodrigues.
View ArticleNLB problem
Hi I have NLB between two virtual machines , they are hosted via VcenterServer A IP : 192.168.1.1Server B IP: 192.168.1.2VIP: 192.168.1.3the mode is unicast and the affinity is single host if I ping...
View ArticleNLB Unicast and certificate for the machine
Hello,I have set up a two node nlb cluster, in unicast.On the other hand, I have a GPO with which every computer in the network gets acertificate from the CA, through autoenrollment.I am new to NLB ,...
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 ArticleWindows 2012 R2 guest cluster on VMware ESXi.5.5 using EMC NS480 FC San fails...
The intended setup is to build a Windows 2012 R2 guest cluster across 2 physical WMware ESXi 5.5 hosts using physical RDM luns off the EMC NS 480 presented to the hosts. The 3 presented luns are using...
View Article"Packets Received Discarded" high on 2008R2 NLB Cluster
HiMy customer has a five node Windows 2008R2 NLB cluster (running Exchange 2010 CAS servers). The cluster is single NIC, running multicast and is virtualized in VMware. There are around 8000-9000 users...
View Articlewhat different with failover cluster and HPC, can i install the SQL server on...
why i found there have some application can use the failover and HPC same time, can i use HPC as te SQL server high availability? what is the excatly different?
View ArticleLive Migrations of VMs with VHD disks / Long blackout times
Hi all, I'm having some issues with live migrations of virtual machines that have .vhd files in our Windows 2012R2 hyper-v clusters. When I perform a live migration of a virtual machine that has a .vhd...
View ArticleKerberos errors on the CNO, error in Server Manager and can't use Veeam
So I think this error is the same as Ive had before on Server 2012, where you move the CNO into a different OU, then after 60 days when the password for the computer account expires you get into...
View ArticleDoes MS support virtualized FailOver Cluster?
Hello to all, I have VMWare Host Environment hosting dozens of Windows 2003 and Windows 2008 OSs and would like to know if MS supports virtualizad FailOver Cluster on W2K3 or W2K8 OSs as guest. If...
View ArticleCluster Aware Updating Fails if Windows Firewall service is disabled
Hi,I have installed the cluster aware updating feature on a Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V cluster and it fails if the Windows Firewall service is disabled on cluster nodes. If I enable and start the service...
View ArticleHyper-V with SOFS Appalling Write Performance
Hi,We are testing our new scale out file server and are having major issues with performance. We have 2 server clustered running the sofs attached to a shared jbod with 8x 4tb sas drives. We have...
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Event ID 1212 - Cluster network name resource 'Cluster Name' cannot be...
Hello,We implemented a Windows Server 2012 hyper-V cluster recently. All was working correctly. However we decommissioned one of our 2003 Domain controller recently. Since then whenever I try to move...
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