Windows 2012 R2 Hyper-V cluster survive a switch reboot
Hello,I currently manage a 5 node Windows 2012 R2 Hyper-V cluster using shared iSCSI SAN storage and the virtual machines run on CSVs.I need to reboot our switch stack which could bring down the...
View ArticleIssues with MSMQ over HTTP in Windows Cluster - Not Working
Background: We have set up a cluster 'net_cluster' and configured message queuing service 'net_clusterMsmq' in it. Please refer the [screen-shot] below for the cluster configuration. We have two...
View ArticleServer 2012 R2 Witness Disk won't failover
Hi,I have a 2 node cluster with a shared witness disk for Quorum. when I lose connection to the disk from 1 node, the ownership fails over to the other node, this is what I expect. however if I test...
View ArticleWindows 2012 Failover Clusters "An error occurred connecting to the Cluster"
Good MorningI have 4 Failover clusters. 1 SQL Cluster, 1 HyperV Cluster, 1 IIS Cluster (Not NLB) and 1 File Cluster. All running windows 2012. The File cluster is fully upto date and has all the...
View ArticleHaving multiple CAs share the same private key
We are developing a system which implements an HA cluster across two separate geographical locations. Each site will have several Windows Server 2012 machines and at least one DC, and we basically have...
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Windows Server 2012 Cluster (SQL 2012) Continuous Error Events 2050, 2051
I have deployed Server 2012 Cluster (CSV) for SQL Server 2012. Everythings working fine but some warning and error events generating continuously. NODE01 2050 Warning...
View ArticleWindows NLB - Multicast
Hi, I configured windows NLB in multicast mode and gave the MAC to network team for adding a static ARP entry in switches, i am wondering whether this MAC id is dynamic or it will stay the same untill...
View Articlesame subnet but cluster places in separate networks
Hello,I have an issue where a host with IP configuration that is on the same subnet as the rest of the hosts keeps getting placed into a separate network. Failover validation doesn't report any issues,...
View Articlequorum failure scenario question
Hello TechNet friends,I have a scenario that happened yesterday that leaves me stumped and I am not sure in which direction to go.2-node active/passive 2008R2 file cluster (Node 1 & Node 2)Nodes...
View ArticleWS2K8 R2 Cluster does not detect Generic Service failure
We have a service set up as a Generic Service cluster resource named QTrans-BPPLog. We have the resource set up to be restarted automatically in case of failure.What's happening is that when this...
View ArticleFailover Cluster on S-2012 R2 - CNO Issue
Set up is with 2 Nodes (6 VMs per node running from clustered storage). I have a CNO in the Active Directory & registered in the DNS, within its security tab it has full control to its named object...
View ArticleNode being removed from Windows Server 2012 R2 cluster
Windows Server 2012 R2 multi-site cluster with 5 nodes. Node 1 (at the main site) fails multiple times a day with the same issue in the cluster log as shown below. All the other nodes log missed...
View ArticleLong time of creating VM checkpoint on file share storage
Hi,Why VM checkpoint creating time so long ~6min on file share storage ?RAM of VM 10GbSame VM on local disk checkpoint creating time <3sWhen I reduce RAM size of VM to 1Gb - checkpoint time...
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Issue with setting up a File Server Role error 1254,1205 and 1069
Hi Everyone I am current building a new 2012R2 file cluster to replace our 2008R2 file clusteron each node (total of 3) I have enabled the following roles and features 2 Nic Internal and...
View ArticleNetwork Drops for 30 seconds During Hyper-V Live Migration
I have 3 physical Hyper-V hosts setup with clustered storage. I disabled VMQ because I was getting errors when trying to do live migrations. I have also ran the network portion of the cluster...
View ArticleKerberos target resolution error after cluster rename
I have a two node Windows Server 2012 running Exchange 2013 cluster which went through a name change on the primary cluster resource. The DNS and computer entries came online with the updated name...
View Article2012 R2 Guest Cluster Network Failure
We have a 2 node guest cluster (2012 R2) using a shared VHDX located on a CSV providing resilient File Server services and it seems to work well....most of the time.We've had two instances lately where...
View ArticleCluster IP address fails with error 1077
Hi all,I have a windows 2012r2 failover cluster and recently I noticed that the cluster name is offline due to a failure of its IP Address:Health check for IP interface 'Cluster IP Address' (address...
View ArticleFailover on 2008R2 Fileserver cluster takes 7 minutes when a server reboots...
I have a 2008R2 domain with (2)2008R2 nodes in a cluster. I have 2 questions1. If I "validate the cluster" and it is a cluster with several 10TB disk on it, etc. will it take a long time to validate?...
View ArticleQuery on Multi-subnet Failover Cluster Setup
I have setup Failover Cluster Instance on 2 nodes with Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2012 running on a SAN storage with "Node and Disk based Quorum", DTC and public and Private IP...
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