Thin Provisioning Storage Space Virtual Disk on 2012R2 SOFS as CSV
HiWe have a two node SOFS cluster that is connected to a DataOn JBOD through SAS. 4 X SSD + 2 X 6TB HDDs Tier storage pool created as a 2 way mirror and configured as CSV. we have an additional 4 X 6TB...
View ArticleDFS can only see in one direction at a time with clustered server
Hi,This one has had me confused for some time.We have a clustered pair of file servers, with an additional server at our DR site. Certain shares are replicated to the DR site using DFS.This replication...
View ArticleWindows 2012 R2 hanging on "Forming cluster"
Man, do I need some help here.I am getting the following error when trying to create a cluster on Windows 2012 R2 for 2 nodes. It is also failing when using just one node. I have the following...
View ArticleCAU - Cluster Aware Updating Computer Object
Hello,recently I installed 2 Windows Server 2012 R2 Failover Clusters. I prestaged the CAU Computer Objects.After configuring the Role on the first Cluster, I went to the second and specified the wrong...
View ArticleCannot start a WSFC node with -ForceQuorum in a cluster that's lost quorum
Hi,I've got a really simple setup: a two node healthy cluster constisting of SRV1 and SRV2. Current Vote is 1 for SRV1 and 0 for SRV2. To simulate a lost node (and in this case cluster losing quorum) I...
View ArticleNr of VMs per LUN (CSV)
I have seven node Hyper-V cluster (Server 2012 R2) and currently 133 VM's deployd there. I'm using only one LUN CSV with size 10TB, and 8TB of it is used by VM's. I have not had any problems with with...
View ArticleServer 2012, Hyper-V Cluster point moint failure
I have a 6 node Server 2012 Hyper-V cluster. Each node was a fresh install with all local drives formatted and repartitioned during OS install.The first 5 nodes went great, but the 6th node is causing...
View ArticleFailover Occured manually or automatically (SQL Server AlwayOn with...
Hello everyone,we had a Failover today on a Windows Server 2012 Failover Cluster with SQL Server Always On and now I'd like to know if the failover was done by the Cluster (or SQL?) or manually from a...
View ArticleRemove Cluster Disk - The group or resource is not in the correct state to...
I have a 3 node 2008R2 cluster for hyper-v, I had an issue with my shared storage box and one of my iSCSI volumes used as a cluster shared volume got corrupted, causing all sorts of problems for the...
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Cluster nodes loosing communication
Hello,http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2462468I have checked the services on both nodes, they are all started: Cluster Service, TCP/IP etc... all automatic services are started on both nodes.Log Name:...
View ArticleBest design for file services high availability
Hi,I have a question about designing a highly available file server; we are aiming at providing high availability for general documents, design files, spreadsheets and so on. Our environment uses a mix...
View ArticleClustering with Hyper-V
Hello,I have a 2 node cluster (server 2012 R2) with Hyper-V installed. Both the hosts receive their updates from SCCM 2012. Node1 gets it's updates on Sunday and Node2 gets it's updates on Tuesday. The...
View ArticleHyper-V Cluster with Multiple OS Version(2012 DataCenter & 2012 R2...
Hi,I have 4 node cluster (2012 DataCenter Edition) almost full with VM's. What i am planning to do, just add a new node with 2012 R2 Datacenter Edition as a 4th node. and move machines from old to...
View ArticleCluster Aware Updating & Pre-staged Computer Objects
I have run into an odd problem with using pre-staged Virtual Computer Objects with Cluster Aware Updating.If I either allow the Configure Self-Updating Options Wizard create the object or pre-create a...
View ArticleWindows 2012 R2 Cluster on DMZ network
Dear , We are planning to setup windows 2012 R2 Cluster on DMZ network in order to have high availability of Hyper-V virtual Machine.My concern are :Could we setup windows 2012 R2 cluster on DMZ...
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Cluster Manager test fails on Storage Section
Running the test for cluster failover and I am not sure if I can proceed to create the cluster with the error that I have. I understand that there is no failover for the local machine's C: Drive...
View ArticleNFS shares on Scale Out File Server Clusters 2012R2 - is this supported?
Hi,I would like to know if NFS shares are supported on Failover Clusters 2012R2. On an existing Scale Out File Server cluster 2012R2, I would like to install 'Server for NFS' role and than would like...
View ArticleWindows 2012 - File Cluster Performance
Hi,We have a file server cluster in windows 2012 that is used as backend access to our app servers. This is a large environment and lots of access 24/24h a day by our app servers.Each node has 64GB of...
View ArticleBest design for HA Fileshare on existing Hyper-V Cluster?
Have a three node 2012 R2 Hyper-V Cluster. The storage is a HP MSA 2000 G3 SAS Block Storage with CSV's. We have a fileserver for all users running as VM on the cluster. Fileserver availability is...
View ArticleWin Server 2012 Failover Cluster - Error: Failed to bring cluster disk online
Hi TechnetI'm currently running running 2 VMs Win Server 2012 and would like to test Failover Clustering for one of our FTP server I've added on both servers an additional partition, formatted and...
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