Windows Server 2012 Failover Cluster Dynamic Quorum issues: Last man standing...
Start situation: 3-node cluster. Nodes with Windows 2012 Datacenter edition as guests on Hyper-V 2012. (A, B & C)We've followed this blogpost...
View ArticleGeneral hardware question for HA cluster
Hello!I am new in HA clusters and looking for the solution to connect 16 disks (JBOD?) to 2-3 servers via SAS (SFF8088). I am reading all the info possible in Internet and getting more confused on what...
View ArticlePatching Failover Clusters and Moving Nodes
I'm testing out Neil Peterson's method of patching Clusters with Orchestrator and SCCM 2012. In his example, he has two nodes. He drains one node and patches it. Then he does that on the other node....
View ArticleMSDTC required on 2008 R2 DHCP cluster?
We are upgrading our Windows Server 2003 DHCP cluster to Windows Server 2008 R2.Our current live DHCP cluster also contains a clustered MSDTC resource. Is MSDTC needed for a DHCP cluster?From...
View ArticleRequirements for similar hardware in a 2012 Hyper-V failover cluster?
Simple question:How similar does the hardware have to be on the host servers in a Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V failover cluster?We have 6 dell servers that we are hoping to use for building a Windows...
View ArticleContinuous Availability - Fail-over Clustering
So we are implementing this strategy and we seem to keep running into lack of high availability. Is there a one stop shop for best practices on implementation? Or must the road to success be littered...
View ArticleVERY SIMPLE Clustering question I hope to have answered tonight
I know the answer to this question but I am hoping to get some high level folks to chime in and confirm my question for folks I need to relay back to.The question is ... is Clustering part of SQL...
View ArticleHyper-V 2012 Live migration fails, quick migration works
Hi.My Environment is two 2012 Hyper-V (Datacentre) servers, clustered. These servers have different hardware but the network cards are named the same. When I do a quick migration it works perfectly but...
View ArticleEvent ID: 1123 - The node lost communication with cluster node on network...
Getting below error very often - Can someone can advice.. OS Version - 2003_64bit_ent and we have configured 4 node cluster.The node lost communication with cluster node on network 'private'.Event...
View ArticleHow can I use cache with NLB?
Hi,I have an ASP.NET app that uses catching. Is it possible to use cache (not session) over an NLB environment? I think no, each server would have his own cache and and might not be synchronized....
View ArticleSQL Server 2008 r2 failed on Windows Server 2012
Hi AllI have a Windows 2012 Server and i want to install cluster SQL 2008 R2 I validate my configration without any error and i create my cluster windows without any problem,I create also DTC role and...
View ArticleNLB 2 Nics Per Server - How to setup gateways
Tell me how to best set this up:2 servers. Each with 2 nic's all on the same subnet.Load Balanced Cluster nls.domain.com10.2.2.110 | 255.255.255.0Server ALAN nic - 10.2.2.100 | 255.255.255.0 |...
View Article2 node cluster. Eight shares. Do clients need mapping to eight drive letters?
At the moment we have one file server (no cluster) connected to iscsi storage. The file server has eight shares, coresponding to eight iscsi drives. However we use DFS (on the domain controller) to...
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 ArticleMicrosoft-Windows-FailoverClustering cannot be found. Either the component...
Hi All, I'm facing SQL Cluster failover problem, I have 2 server, named: SQL01 and SQL02. currently SQL02 owner of Quorum, DTC and SQL. Error event ID as follow:The description for Event ID 1205 from...
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 ArticleMove-ClusterVirtualMachineRole failing on single node
I have a 5 node cluster and have been trying to automate my live-migrationsI use a simple "script" to move all the vm off of one node to another$groups = Get-ClusterNode hyper-v1 | Get-ClusterGroup |...
View Articlecluster drive letters changed
Hello All,I have a two-node sql server(2012) cluster on Windows server 2008 R2. There is 2 database resources in the cluster. I moved all my resources from node 2 to node 1 and restarted node node2....
View ArticleKerberos target resolution error after cluster rename
I have a two node Windows Server 2012 running Exchange 2013 cluster which went through a name change on the primary cluster resource. The DNS and computer entries came online with the updated name...
View ArticleConfigure Asymmetric storage for cross-site Windows Failover Cluster
We have 4 Windows 2008 R2 SP1 enterprise servers across two sites. 2 servers at each site. And those 2 servers has shared storage among themselves. The goal here is to setup a single Windows Failover...
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