Multi site failover cluster, Single host server at 2 separate offices
I'm looking at a scenario where we have 2 dell servers, one at our main office, and another at a remote office. Each of these servers has support for 24 virtual processors, 64GB RAM, and a RAID 1TB...
View ArticleDisk resource goes offline on File Server Cluster on Windows 2008 Storage Server
Hello,We are having two node file server cluster and there are 4 disk resources on two clustered services.Two days back I have added one more disk resource and it goes to offline mode intermittent.When...
View ArticleFail Over Cluster ( Testing Machine: 1 desktop )
Hello,For your advice please.I Have 1 desktop, Microsoft Server 2012 R2 is installed.Current Set-up:1 Domain Controller (VM)2 VM (Microsoft Server 2012 R2 is installed)The 2 VM are configured for fail...
View ArticleThe node lost communication with cluster node XXXXX on network Public Network...
Hi Team,Anyone has solution for this? Though it is not giving much of a problem. It is keeps filling in System events.How to stop these events? Anyone has a fix?The node lost communication with cluster...
View ArticleRenaming a windows 2012 Cluster
What are the implications if i rename the WINDOWS 2012 Cluster. This is a 2 node windows 2012 and SQL 2014 cluster and after it is up and running we see it is outside the naming convention by a few...
View ArticleQuorum setting
I need some advice. I have a 2 node cluster however 1 machine is going to be off for an extended time(its paused and powered down and unplugged). I was in a Node + file share majority. I have tried to...
View ArticleFail over policies in Cluster 2012
if the clustered role fails more than the maximum time period specified, it will be left in failed state.What is this settings? I don't want cluster group to go into failed into state rather than I...
View ArticleNLB Manager donot show the other host
Hello a few months back, I installed and configured Windows NLB on a couple of exchange CAS servers and everything seems to be working fine (still working fine). However, the other day when I opened...
View ArticleGateways on SCVMM IP pools
Hi,I am designing a new VMM fabric for our data center but have seen an article (that i now can not find) that states the gateway has to be .1 for each network as opposed to for example .254.it stated...
View ArticleMulti-Site Clustering and Storage: How to setup
Hi Everybody! First time poster here on Technet and was hoping somebody can help me out with a problem I've been struggling with for a few days.I've setup an out of box cluster in vmware that consists...
View ArticleClustered file server in separate locations
Hello. Have a quick question regarding setting up a clustered file server. Basically my company has three locations in 3 different cities (all within about a 120 mile radius of one another) and they...
View ArticleMPIO Installation on Server 2012 Fails
I'm trying to setup multi-pathing to our storage array so I went to install MPIO on our Server 2012 R2 machine. I tried it using Server Manager > Add Roles and Features, and I tried installing it...
View ArticleFailed state for writers at start of backup
Can anyone help or advise with this one please?We are using Hyperoo to backup VMs held on 2 CSVs, which are running from a SoFS.At present, as soon as the backup is scheduled to kick in, event ID 1544...
View Articlecan run a failover cluster 2012r2 with a 2008 Domain?
Hello Yall'sI have simple question. can run a failover cluster 2012r2 with a 2008 Domain?failover cluster 2012r2 over SMB3 access...
View ArticleUnable to add Node to cluster - unable to successfully cleanup
Hi,I was trying to evicted IBM node (windows 2008) back to sql cluster but got error: unable to successfully cleanup. No antivirus installed. Pings for network works fine. What could I try to add the...
View ArticleAdd Cluster Nodes failed: "Unable to successfully cleanup".
Does anyone got any good hint about what the potential cause of the Add Cluster Nodes failed with the following report details would be and if there is a way to rectify it without re-create the...
View ArticleError: The computer is joined to cluster when creating the Cluster
Hello Guys, I have created a cluster to configure Hyper-V for 2 Nods, everything was greate and works perfectly, next day the storage hang and the cluster didn't work any more, I have destroyed the...
View ArticleCreate network team based on two teams?
hi!Is it possible in windows server 2012 R2 to create network team based on two existed teams?I have a server (exchange 2013) with 4 NICs and two switches. I want to use aggregated interfaces (LACP)....
View ArticleLoad Balancing VMs across a Cluster. No VMM server
Howdy,We have a 3 node Hyper-V cluster with a bunch of VMs on it. None of the VMs are setup with Preferred Hosts and the Failback setting is set to Prevent Failback. Both of these are set just...
View Article2012 R2 Hyper-V cluster nodes hang
Hi,We have a two node Hyper-V cluster. ~ once a week either one of the cluster nodes hangs during a backup (Backup Exec 2014 Vray edition) causing all VM's to restart to the other node. When a node...
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