re-create clustername in AD
I have a two node cluster running HyperV and the cluster just started spitting out errors that it couldn't bring the clustername online. This is the error message:Cluster network name resource...
View Article2 node server 2012 R2 file cluster goes offline when i change nodes
I have a 2 node cluster.2 - server running clustering with file server service installed. both are inside vSphere 6.0u2 hosted in a UCS blade system. Both have 2 nics, 1 for client communications with...
View ArticleHow many license I need here?
in this env we have: 1. Two Hyper-V 2012 R2 Server (free version as I understand), and clustered. And Server Spec: 2 processor total 16 cores) 2. 10 VMs (with W2K12R2 std OS) 3. 1 SCVMM server. May I...
View ArticleUnderstand Cluster Client Communication
I'm trying to understand the flow of traffic on a Windows 2012 R2 cluster. I have a cluster name object with an IP address for a two node cluster. When configuring firewall rules from client to...
View ArticleAdvice on File Server VM Cluster on top of Scaled out File Server Cluster Setup
HI, I currently have a general file server cluster setup with 4 x (Dell R620) nodes and 1 x (Dell PowerVault MD 3420) DAS Storage. Everything works as intended, fail over, performance etc. However the...
View ArticleHelp with disk performance.
Hi,I have a Windows 2003 Failover cluster for file sharing. It consists of two nodes and is connected to a fiber channel SCSI array.We are planning to migrate it to a Windows 2012 R2 cluster, with...
View Articlecluster quorum
Hi I am basic conspcet of clusters like what is difference between odd and even Cluster, types of quorum which secanrio used each quorum settings, it is possible to change quorum types after Cluster...
View ArticleWeb Server 2012 Failover
Hello,I will have a new web server and was wondering what are my options with setting up a failover. I want to be able to failover to the secondary web server while doing application updates on the...
View ArticleWhat is the best Quorum mode?
Dears,I have basic questions and I hope expert implementers can help me in this: What is the best Quorum mode?? and can I use it with any service and multisite clustering?ThanksRegards
View ArticleKMS Service High Availability
All,I have two Machine with windows server 2012 R2 DC and connected with Failover cluster. " Is it possible to make High Availability for (Volume Activation Services) KMS through Microsoft Failover...
View ArticleHigh latency
Hi,I encountered weird situation where high latency happened when I ping to ip address of Windows Failover Cluster (WFC) and SQL Instance. The ping resulted return average 10-15ms However, when I ping...
View ArticleCSV and live migration from another server not in cluster
Good evening, I created a CSV in a server 2012 hyper V set up with failover clustering so that they could all share the same disk in order to create VMs and live migrate that way. My question is if it...
View ArticleCan I configure notification via email when my cluster working not properly?
Hi,I have Failover Cluster for MS SQL and I will know my application working not properly from users compain. And I found the root cause of my case is the DB resources move to other node not success....
View ArticleCluster Services Won't Start After OS Upgrade
On a two node SQL 2012 cluster, I evicted the passive node and did an in-place upgrade from 2012 Standard to 2012 R2 Datacenter which happened fine without much issues.Now when I am trying to start the...
View ArticleFailover Cluster Storage requirements
Hi,can I use internal SATA drives of one Hyper-V host to create an iSCSI SAN for use by a Failover Cluster ?Both Hyper-V hosts will be Server 2012R2.If VM with file server role fails, other VM (either...
View Articlelive migrating from a non-csv to a cluster share volume Windows server 2012 r2
Good evening, I am trying to migrate a VM and it's VHDs from a local storage to a CSV; but when I perform it, it fails with not enough space even though there is more then enough in the CSV. I read...
View ArticleUnable to Validate a Cluster Configuration. The operation has failed. The...
There is an error in XML document (5, 73). Attempt by methodMicrosoft.Xml.Serialzation.GeneratedAssembly.XmlSerialzationReaderClusterPrep.Config.Read4_As...Bolean) to access...
View ArticleAdd CSV Storage to SQL SERVER VM
High all,I have a 2008 R2 VM with high availability. This VM is a SQL Server with installed on a clusterstorage disk.Now i wanna add some csv storage to improve I/O regranding the tempdb, so i create...
View ArticleRebuilding CSV Volume
I have a 3 host Hyper-V 2008 R2 cluster with iSCSI storage on the back end. There are 3 CSV volumes. Two of the volumes were created properly, but I need to rebuild the 3rd. I didn't have enough...
View ArticleSteps for manual failover on a cluster
Hi All,I've just started my training as an SQL DBA and I would like to know what the proper steps are for failing over a cluster. To test this I have build a 2 node test Cluster can you please advise...
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