ARGH!! SMB share listed in Server Manager, but cannot view on disk
We have an application SMB share (lets call it HYPERSHARE_1), hosted on a CSV. The share is visible within server manager, but states that it contains only a few hundred MB of data, as opposed to the...
View ArticleHow to move SAN disks (LUNs) from one node to another node quickly?
Dears,I have a two nodes SQL cluster, there are five SQL instances, each instance uses 6 LUNs, so total I have 30 Luns; if I want to reboot the active node the cluster service will take long time to...
View ArticleMove DHCP cluster Win 2008 to another SAN
Hi all, we are running a DHCP cluster servers in Active/Passive mode. the operating system is windows server 2008 R2, the cluster is connected to the HP EVA storage, we have the following disks...
View Articledisk failover works only in one direction winserver 2012R2
I have been banging my head against the wall trying to figure this out...I have a cluster with WS2012R2 The cluster is on 2 HP DL360 G7 all latest rom drivers etc..Connection to the disks is via emulex...
View ArticleHyper-V HA Virtual Machine shutdown or goes in a saved state when Non-OS VHDX...
I have a Generation 2 virtual server running in a 2012 R2 Hyper-V cluster. This virtual server has four volumes:C:\ (system volume containing the operating system)D:\E:\F:\D, E and F all contain...
View ArticleExtending Clustered Drives
Hi All,We have a request to extend one of the clustered drives on an SQL 2008 Cluster hosted on windows 2008 r2. We will follow the below steps to extend it. Kindly let us know if these are correct...
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"The group or resource is not in the correct state to perform the requested...
Trying to delete a file share witness from a cluster, after the actual file share itself became corrupt. Have managed to remove the share from Server Manager successfully, but cannot remove the witness...
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 ArticleHeartbeat is it still necessary on Windows 2012 hyper-v cluster?
Hi,We have iscsi SAN and 2 servers with 4 nics each. We plan to create Hyper-v cluster with csv volumes and we plan such network configuration:2 nics - iscsi 2 nics (team) - Production (public)in this...
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 Article"The parameter is incorrect" error when creating mount point in Server 2008...
I am receiving the error "The parameter is incorrect" when attempting to create a new mount point in an existing Server 2008 R2 2-node cluster. This cluster hosts four SQL 2008 virtual servers and I...
View ArticleFailover Cluster WMI Provider detected an invalid character
Hi,Another thread on the event log warning 6230: Failover Cluster WMI Provider detected an invalid character."The private property name 'Volume ID' had an invalid character and has been changed to...
View ArticleCluster resource online remotely via power-shall scrip
Hello Guyz, I would like to have a powershall/VBS script which could help me to bring a cluster resource online/offline via remote server. ( Let's say I've a server located on location A and from there...
View ArticleNLB Print Server support for Windows Server 2012 R2
Hello, We have a customer who wants to install Print Server in NLB environment because Print Server redundancy is necessary.But we already know that Print Server configuration in NLB is not supported...
View ArticleHow long is too long to complete Windows Updates on all cluster nodes?
So I'm confused. All the documentation I've found regarding applying Windows Updates to all Failover Cluster nodes say that all nodes should have the same set of Windows Updates on them. That's fine,...
View ArticleFailed to create NLB
Hi. i've got problem here about creating nlb cluster. i use windows server 2012i got this error messageProcessing update 2 from "NLB Manager on DC1.sarah.net"Cannot proceed because Microsoft Cluster...
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Extending Cluster Shared Volume
HiI recently extended a CSV from 2 TB to 3TB. But, according to failover cluster manager I can only use only 2 TB. How can I fix it? Someone told me that this is an operating system limitation. Is...
View ArticleAdding server to DAG
Hi,I have 2 node DAG (exch2010 multi role)I'm adding the server to the DAG fully patches with sp3 with roll up 9. But when i add the server to DAG i get warning msg below. All server fully patched with...
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Event ID 1212 - Cluster network name resource 'Cluster Name' cannot be...
Hello,We implemented a Windows Server 2012 hyper-V cluster recently. All was working correctly. However we decommissioned one of our 2003 Domain controller recently. Since then whenever I try to move...
View ArticleWindows Server 2008 R2 - Cluster Name IP address issue / Cluster down
We have two Windows server 2008 R2 Nodes in a Cluster with a node & disk majority setup.We run all of our production Hyper-V cluster shared volumes / VM's on the service.One of our nodes can no...
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