Missing disk on a Hyperv cluster
HyperV2012 cluster with two nodes. HP servers with 3PAR disk system. When I move and delete large disks, 2TB, losing the server I'm working on contact with all SAN disk's. Must take a restart of the...
View ArticleFailover VM's Servers all grouping together under one server?
When I add VM server's to high availability using the wizard in the failover cluster manager. They all add under the first server that I add instead off in the top section individually as roles ( See...
View ArticleCluster dies when 3rd node is on
Hi,At work we have 3 servers within a cluster (Windows Server 2012 R2). On Monday the cluster failed and started to live migrate boxes to servers which were rebooting. We had a major site outage, where...
View ArticleHyper-V Cluster with Storage Server AH
Hello Everyone, I have a question about Clustering&Storage.I have two servers and what I wanted to do is: -A cluster of 2 nodes-The Storage directly on the Nodes-The storage AHI don't want a third...
View ArticleProper steps to fail over to another host in a cluster
Hello,Pardon my ignorance. What is the proper steps to force a fail over to the standby host in a cluster with two nodes?My secondary host is the currently the active host for custer name. I would...
View ArticleUnable to bring cluster group online
Hi,I have a Windows 2008 2 node cluster.We have SQL on node 1. The cluster group is on node 2 right now.Over the weekend, the cluster group failed and will not come back online. We were unable to...
View ArticleHow to schedule Cluster logs to be generated for Microsoft Failover Clusters...
Hi, As per my understanding we always have to generate Cluster logs manually on the cluster nodes to get these generated.Is there any way we can schedule Cluster Logs to be generated every time so that...
View ArticleHyper-V Fail-over cluster problem - "stuck" VM
I'm working on testing a Hyper-V 2-node cluster for my employer, and have run into a problem. I suspect the problem stems from a reboot after installing some updates on the nodes and storage (which...
View ArticleGeneric Application fail-over is restarting
I have setup a two node cluster on 2012. I am trying to use the generic application to fail fail over and to pick up where it left off i.e. Move what is in memory to the fail over server. I can not get...
View ArticleWindows Server 2012 R2 Failover Cluster
Hello!Is it supported configuration to separate File Witness Server and Windows 2012 R2 Cluster nodes in Dynamic Quorum by NAT/PAT/Firewall in internal network?Thanks in advance.
View ArticleUser access required to manage a windows 2008 r2 cluster
We have a 4 node already configured cluster, Now I need to give access to backup team to view and configure backup cluster resource on the same cluster. What all the permission should I provide to the...
View Articlefailover cluster - ISCSI shared disk E:/ moved to C/ClusterStorage/Volume1 is...
hi , i just created 2 iscsi disk for quorum disk and shared disk. 1. The moment i created cluster the quorum was automatically choosen, is that correct behaviour. Cause i didt do it by myself ?2. Also...
View ArticleCluster Windows 2012 in different subnet
HiI prepare to configure 4 windows 2012 in a cluster. All windows 2012 have 2 network card (1 = DATA and 1 = Heartbeat)It's possible to configure:- All 4 servers network card in same VLAN for "DATA"...
View ArticleHow to configure current SQL high availability cluster using mirroring with...
We have a current HA cluster at center1 which is mirrored to another HA cluster in center2. We have several instances already installed and working which are using one NIC for data and replication....
View ArticleHost name changes in Failover clustering
Hello all,We have following setup,2 servers of windows server 2012 standard...they are in failover clusteringSQL server 2012 is also there.The customer has asked us to change hostname of servers.so we...
View ArticleCreate a share FSW on another server or CIFS
HiI create in my lab, 3 serveurs Windows 2012 R2, all servers in a cluster.I check to create a share for FSW (File Share Witness), what is a best practices ?1 - Create a share on CIFS?2- Create a share...
View ArticleCAU: The plug-in argument HotfixRootFolderPath has invalid value
I am trying to apply a hotfix using CAU and have configured the self-updating options. When I come to preview the update for the cluster and select Microsoft.Hotfixplugin as the plugin, I get the...
View ArticleWindows 2012 FSW
HiI prepare to configure 5 windows 2012 in cluster with a File Share Withness. My question: It's possible to configure a share (for a file share withness) on one of my servers Windows 2012?If Yes, do...
View ArticleCluster failure and don`t start
Hi.First, one of cluster node is lost Witness share. After reboot servers cluster service do not started. In Event Viewer write some errors:Event ID: 1090The Cluster service cannot be started. An...
View ArticleFailover Cluster disk failed on a VM.
Hello,I tried to create a Failover cluster node on a VM (with a virtual disk with fixed size).All the step are ok except disk storage Add.When I try to Add a disk, the following error appears :Status :...
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