Failover Cluster for Multi-Site and Multi-Subnets
Hi,I have threes sites with different networks connected to each other by a firewall (Cisco Firewall) in each site and doing NAT.During the process of creating cluster, we can't add the other two...
View ArticleWindows 2008 R2 Clustering with Hyper-V
Hi,I have 2 HP DL380 G5 servers each with 2 on board NICs and an additional 2 NICs presented from a PCI card. One server is called HYPERV3 (H3) and the other HYPERV4 (H4)I have an EMC SAN which the...
View ArticleMemory Allocation for Multi-instance SQL DB Failover Cluster
Hi All,I have installed a 2-node multi-instance (active-active) SQL failover cluster.Here is the setup details:1. Server1 (Node1) physical memory of is 64GB. Running Web_Instance01.2. Server1 (Node2)...
View Articlelocation smss.exe for SQL server 2012 on windows 2012
I have a question on location smss.exe ( sql server management tool setup exe file).I am finding this in the following locations :C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL...
View Articleremove invalid cluster configuration from node that was evicted
I have (had) a 3 node cluster (Hyper-V server 2012). Node 2 was completely unresponsive. During the process of trying to get it unstuck I evicted it from the cluster. Now the cluster lists Node 1...
View ArticleServer 2012 Cluster Aware Updating powered off my non-HA VM's instead of...
I have a 2 node cluster (server 2012 hosts) specifically to make a couple VM's HA. I had only made a single VM clustered and at first cluster aware updating was failing saying that node drain failed...
View ArticleFail Over Cluster 2012 - Kerberos security error
Hello,I have two Windows 2012 Datacenter Core installed on two box. I'm using Windows 2012 and Windows 8 PC to manage those two servers that are in a cluster. Everything is working fine. But when I...
View ArticleCluster Resources Removed from Group
Hi,All of the cluster resources (including disks, file shares, SQL Server and SQL Agent) have been accidentially removed from the associated cluster group; all of the storage is now showing under...
View ArticleXP Clients unable to access a 2012 Clustered File server by name, only by IP...
Enviroment: Failover Cluster 2012: Physical Nodes: srv-cluster01 and srv-cluster02Virtual Nodes: srv-fscluster;Domain: Only 1 Florest and 1 Domain, two Domain Controllers(Replicated and Checked);I has...
View ArticleMove iSCSI LUNs / Targets to different SAN
I have a two node 2008 R2 cluster running two instances of SQL. Each has 4 disks plus there is a quorum disk. All disks are iSCSI connected, the first instance connects to one SAN and the second to...
View Article'IPv6 Tunnel Address' resource showing up for the cluster broker but not in...
When 'Hyper-V Cluster Broker' role is enabled, it is adding a 'IPv6 Tunnel Address' resource to the broker. But I don't find 'IPv6 Tunnel Address' resource in theCore Resources of the cluster. How can...
View ArticleWindows 2008 R2 failover cluster condition level
Dear team,I have built an failover cluster on Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise.And I installed SQL Server 2012 as an SQL Server cluster. There are two SQL Server instance, and each node host one instance.I...
View ArticleCannot add a new node on a failover
Hi,I try to create a Windows failover cluster to support a Sql server Failover. So i have three server dbtor1,dbtor2,dbtor3dbtor1 & dbtor3 are my node, dbtor3 host AD and DNS.Things is i can create...
View ArticleDCOM was unable to communicate with the computer SQL9 using any of the...
We are running a Windows Server 2012 cluster and I see the following error in the System folder of Event Viewer."DCOM was unable to communicate with the computer SQL9 using any of the configured...
View ArticleCluster IP Address Issue
Hi All,Having a communications issue with the IP address in the cluster and wanted to get some other input on this.The cluster is running fine and validation returns good results.However, the cluster...
View Article2012 Hyper-V CSV Cluster - c:\ClusterStorage\Volume1 Directory is Empty on...
My issue is interesting. I have a 2-node hyper-v cluster, and when a node is rebooted, when it comes back, the CSV shows up as an empty folder (c:\clusterstorage\volume1). If I move the CSV inside of...
View ArticleCheapest SAS JBOD for Clustered Storage Spaces
Certification is not needed. Need only 2 ports (for a pair of servers). Ideas?StarWind iSCSI SAN & NAS
View ArticleWindows 2008 file sharing cluster enumeration
Is there a way to enumerate file shares in a Windows 2008 file sharing cluster? We are moving to a new SAN and using robocopy to move the files. We just need a report on the current file share...
View ArticleCSV errors STATUS_IO_TIMEOUT Windows 2012 Hyper-V Failover cluster
Hi there,I'm seeing these errors sometimes, on a Windows 2012 Hyper-V Failover Cluster.Cluster Shared Volume 'Volume1' ('Cluster Disk 1') is no longer available on this node because of...
View ArticleCluster Windows Server 2012
Hi all,i had a problem on my cluster last night.The cluster is configured this way:Two cluster node, both with 128GB of ram, 2-network adapter, one private e one public, both 1GB. One storage node...
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