Why is a cluster volume marked to be run in a separate monitor?
Hi.I have a customer that has created a new Hyper-V cluster with 4 volumes in their SAN. For some reason volumes 1 and 3 are marked to be run in a separate monitor though. From the cluster validation...
View ArticleAD Redundancy
Hi Windows Server Expert,We have one AD that host both DNS and DHCP. My question is I would like to have another AD that will always replicate with the current AD, thus if anything problem with first...
View ArticleARR set up giving me "403 - Forbidden: Access is denied"
I set up a web farm using ARR on IIS 7.5 and Windows Server 2008 R2. There are two windows server 2008 R2 nodes. Each node individually works. There is no SSL enabled anywhere. But when I try to access...
View ArticleDSM, versions do not match between node
HiI have hyper v failover cluster installed on win server 2012i see in the validation report the below warning :For the device-specific module (DSM) named Microsoft DSM, versions do not match between...
View Article2 node Windows 2003 Cluster
Hi Techies,I've one of the Production 2 node windows 2003 clustering & Configured 3 application Cluster resources. 2 out of 3 Clusters groups application are working fine without any issue.But 1...
View ArticleNetwork Load Balancing not failing over properly
I have 2 MS 2012 servers setup in a NLB unicast configuration, with 2 NICs each on the same subnet. When I take down the second server (and only the second server) the FQDN goes offline. Below are...
View Articleask your help!
We have Windows 2008 R2 clustering with two SQL clustered resources. Windows cluster object and two SQL clustered resources are updated dynamically in DNS. But, the SQL CNO is not updated in DNS and...
View ArticleWindows 2008 R2 cluster with iSCSI storage.
We have a 2 node cluster setup with iSCSI storage. Is there a way to set the storage so that it becomes active on a specific node, when that node is online? The storage is failing over properly but...
View ArticleCluster Aware Updating - SCOM and VMM Maintenance Modes
I have just commenced a POC utilizing Cluster Aware Updating to patch a Fail-over Cluster.The patching process operates as required but I have noted that the nodes are not placed in Maintenance Mode...
View ArticleNIC teaming and isolation with Hyper V Cluster
HiWe have 4 NICs in each of 2 host servers. We are planning to deploy the two host servers in HV cluster. We are looking for best practice / recommended configuration for teaming the NICs and virtual...
View ArticleMerging two raid arrays together
Hello,I'm not sure if this is posted in the right area. Please move this for advise me where to post if it isn't, thanks!I currently have 2 MD1000's connected to my Server2012r2 system and all 30...
View ArticleFailover Clustering Quorum - Disk Witness
I have a question in regards to Windows Server 2012 R2 Failover Clustering. Does anyone know any of any documentation or have you had personal experience with configuring a disk witness for a quorum?...
View ArticlePFC for dedicated storage network
We have just installed 2 node 2012 R2 Scale-out file server using tiered storage spaces.We plan to use the storage for Hyper-V vms. Each SOFS node and each Hyper-V node have dual port Mellenox...
View ArticleStorage validation error 0x80070022
I get this error during the Storage > List Potential Cluster Disks test:Failed to find or allocate arbitration sectors for physical disk {263c99e5-545c-42a6-b540-a3835cda60c8} from node...
View ArticleUpgrading clusters to 2k8 (from 2k3) - Questions on CNO/VCO objects.
I am upgrading 2 clusters from Server2k3 to Server2k8 - and the issue is keeping the same VCO's. Here is the situation. In order to test before going live, we are completely stopping all cluster...
View ArticleWarning in Validation Failover Cluster
LabDC10 ADDS and DNS and iscsi targetHYP1 member Hyper V InstalledHYP2 Member Hype V INstalledThis is My labI have install Failover Cluster (Feature) on HYP1 Member, While testing the Failover...
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 ArticleProblem with MAC Spoofing and Virtual MACs
Hello, I am deploying Hyperv hosts that perform clustering using virtual MACs. I've enabled mac address spoofing, but as soon as I enable the clustering on the hosts and they try to use the virtual...
View ArticleHow to configure backup network in Network Load Balancing?
Some time ago I failed to find proper discription, how backup Network should be configured in NLB, because it seems to be too many options here. I´m having troubles in MBAM, its IIS autherization...
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HPC 2012 R2 Heat Map CPU usage view
Hi,Im new to HPC cluster, and we have a customer that is wondering why the Heat Map and CPU usage View does not show any information, is there a service that we need to restart that may have failed ?...
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