Witness disk - LUN or Disk
HiServer 2012 R2I am wanting to set up Failover clustering with 2 nodes connected to a Dell MD3400 storage array using SAS (not iSCSI). The disks are a mix of SSD and SAS drives and have been...
View ArticleHyper-V Replica Issue
Hi Everyone,I got one issue with Hyper-V Replica:From a single-host I am replicating VMs to a Cluster. So far, so good. After adding more Nodes to the Cluster, these can't receive the replication. One...
View ArticleW2k12R2 failover clustering - can I import existing VMs AFTER creating the...
I have 2 HP DL380's that are running hyper-v on W2K12R2. One machine has a PDC and Exchange 2007 VM and the other has a BDC and file server VM. Both the Exchange VM and file server are connected to...
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Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V Failover Cluster NIC Team "Host Unmanageable" Status
Hi All. I'm trying to troubleshoot an apparent network issue on our 2 node failover cluster, and have found that on one of the nodes, the status of the NIC team is "Host Unmanageable" in Server...
View ArticleWindows 2012 R2 2xNode Failover Cluster Drive letter
hi all,Setup 2x Windows 2012 R2 VMs on VMware to host a SQL cluster.I've setup 4x volumes on Dell Equallogic and presented them to the VMs (DB, DBBackups, DBLogs and Quorum). Brought the disks online,...
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Cluster Validation Strange Error - Disk - The wrong diskette is in the drive....
Hi,I am trying to create a 2008 R2 failover cluster but I am experiencing a strange issue. When I run the cluster validation I receive a strange error, the List Potential Cluster Disk report fails...
View Articlecluster aware updating windows update
I got a 2 node 2012r2 server running sql 2012. I have cluster aware updating installed but I see windows updates are available via windows updates, I do not see the updates under cluster aware...
View ArticleFailover Cluster Manager issue (Windows 10 RSAT)
Hello,Windows 2012 R2 Cluster + Windows 10 Pro.Windows 10 RSAT Failover Cluster Manager operations such as Create new virtual machine, change VM settings, Manage VM, Connect to VM...
View ArticleCAU Hotfix Plugin run not rebooting hosts, can not check quorum
I am running 5 Hyper-V 2012 R2 Clusters and working to get CAU running properly with the Hotfix plugin. The updating is working fine, updates are applied appropriately with folder rules for installing...
View ArticleTrouble adding VMs as separate roles on 2012 cluster
I have created a two node cluster (Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter) with two CSVs. My goal is to add 6 HyperV VMs on this cluster, which I can do, but the process is not behaving the way I...
View ArticleQuorum on 2 node cluster on different subnets
We are deploying a 2 node cluster on different subnets. It looks like we need to configure a fileshare as Witness. Since the cluster needs quorum what happens to the cluster if the server hosting the...
View Articlevalidation failed on remote server - Ensure that the remote registry service...
I am trying to setup my 2012 cluster and when i try to add my remote server it gives me an errorFailed to access remote registry on server.Ensure that the remote registry service is running, and have...
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 ArticleCannot add Disk to Cluster Server 2012
I created a Cluster Server 2012 two node Cluster. We then presented some SAN space to each server on the same subnet. From Failover Cluster Manager I added a Disk from Node 1 and a Disk from Node 2....
View ArticleWindows Server 2012 Cluster Validation Failing On List All Potential Cluster...
I'm in the process of setting up a new cluster using Windows Server 2012 with a view to migrate from our existing 2008 R2 cluster. I am having problems validating the storage and the wizard keeps...
View ArticleVarious errors - The wrong diskette is in the drive + Failover cluster fails...
HelloOur rig.2 nodes - hp dl360 connected to a HP mSA 2040 SAN directly with FC cards.Running Failover cluster roles and senveral virtual hyper-v vm's.We have 2 LUNS, clusterstorage 1 and 2, several...
View ArticleWindows Server 2012 R2 Failover Cluster - Network(Production + Management)
Hi All,The our exist setup have one cluster for two Nodes, each node have 4 network interface make two NIC as teaming finally we have for each nodes Two network teaming name [ Management &...
View Articlecan not start lame cluster
I have a two node cluster, all 2012R2,some day one node system crash in loop boot, therefore I wipe it.today I choose the Stop cluster in failover cluster manager, but I found I can not connect to this...
View ArticleSystem configuration information for cluster
I have 2 physical servers. I need to have a failover system so when the first server fails it will activate the second server. What i have done is: On both physical servers i have installed hyper-v and...
View ArticleExpanding iSCSI lun from below 16TB to above 16TB for a live CSV
All servers fully patched 2012OK i am just wanting a second set of eyes on what i am about to do.I have a Dell MD 3620 attached via iSCSI to a 5 node Failover Cluster. There is a 16 TB LUN being...
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