I have a 2008 R2 64bit Cluster file servers ran out of drive letters having...
I have 2 nodes in a cluster- The cluster is called NAS2 resources in there NASFS1 and NASFS2I have set the prefered owner of NASFS1 to Node1 and NASFS2 to Node2Each resource hosts a number of...
View ArticleScale out file server hyper-v DNS best practices with SMB multichannel
TL;DR I cannot get hyper-v hosts to "see" cluster servers through DNS and thus cannot add shares to CSV (at least through Server Manager).I am in the middle of setting up a scale out file server for...
View ArticleNAP Redundancy
Hello,I checked the following documentation http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831683.aspx, where said that is impossible to configure failover cluster on NAP. So, Is there a way to provide...
View ArticleServer 2008 Failover Cluster (SQL) to Server 2008 R2 Failover Cluster Migration
I've got a few physical 2008 (non-R2) servers running a number of different versions of SQL in a failover cluster configuration. I've got 3 new servers with 2008 R2 installed that I want to migrate...
View ArticleWindows 2008 cluster disk reserved
I have 2 Windows Server 2008 servers and I'm using a Dell Equallogic SAN. these 2 servers are setup as a cluster. I originally configured them a few months ago and then I didn't touch them for about...
View ArticleHyper-V hosts got frozen
Hi: Yesterday I was doing a maintenance on the hosts of a Hyper-V cluster, with two nodes. The cluster was a warning "overcommitted". The cluster has few virtual servers turned off.When I shutdown...
View ArticleFile Share Witness Resouces Errors in a SQL 2012 Alwayson Availability Group...
Hi I am getting the following error in WFC Manager and in my system event log:Event ID1564: File share witness resource 'File Share Witness' failed to arbitrate for the file share...
View Article2008 R2 STATIC IP on a cluster
How can I set a static IP address on a 2008 R2 Cluster? There was no option when I ran the cluster create wizard. It set the cluster up on a subnet with DHCP. The cluster name is already in DNS (from...
View ArticleUpper Case / Lowercase when adding Node
HiI'm faceing a somewhat strange behavíor of MS 2008R2 Cluster. I start with a 2 Node System. If I add the nodes they where written in uppercase letters. If the cluster is configured an i add a node it...
View ArticleMonitoring Hung state Clustering service
Hi All,I am trying develop a script (PowerShell) that can monitor hung state of clustering service to reduce the downtime when there is an outage .Am SharePoint Admin so i don't have much experience on...
View ArticleNeed advice on networking( Migrating Windows 2008 Hyper-V Cluster Failover to...
Hi,I have a Windows 2008 Hyper-V cluster failover with 2 nodes.each node has 4 phisical NIC's Now it is configured like this:NIC 1 -> Heartbeat NIC 2 -> Live migration NIC 3 -> Management NIC...
View ArticleCan you add a 2012 Hyper-V 2 node cluster to an existing 2008 R2 Hyper-V Cluster
We have a 4 node Windows 2008 R2 HA cluster. We have 2 new nodes that we'd like to install Windows 2012 Hyper-V on before we upgrade our current cluster to 2012. Can we do this? Or do we need to...
View ArticleWin2008 R2 failover cluster with DB2 10.1 said "RESOURCE_NOT_FOUND ERROR"
2 server with wins2008 R2 failover cluster According to the"High Availability and Disaster Recovery Options for DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows" document and configure it successfully.but in Failover...
View ArticleWindows Server 2012 Failover Clustering Kerberos Status
I am currently running a test environment where I have 3 Windows Server 2012 servers which are part of a 3 node cluster. The Domain Controller is a virtual machine.When I shutdown all 3 servers to test...
View ArticleCAU Error when refresh Server Manager
I have a simple two node Hyper-V cluster called VMCLUSTER001.I installed CAU and it created a ressource called "CAUvmclukmt". CAU was working and could update both nodes.After installation, on node 1...
View ArticleUnable to configure NFS share as resource type in windows server 2012 cluster
In windows server 2012 cluster, Even though "Server for NFS" role installed, unable to find "NFS Share" resource type in add resource option.
View ArticleMigrating data drives on Win2K8 cluster from one SAN to new SAN
I am hoping someone here might have a clear answer to my question. Currently we are working on a project to migrate all the data from an old SAN that stores our Win2K8 Cluster info (Quorum, MSDTC, and...
View ArticleMS cluster 2003
Dear All, We have two node active/passive cluster on HP proliant DL 380 G5 with MSA 2000 storage system. OS windows 2003 X86 R2 enterprise edition. Since installation till now, we didn't update...
View ArticleFailover clustering with redirected folders
I'm having an issue with failover clustering of my file server. I understand during the failover it will disconnect clients but what is happening is on their desktop all their files will disappear.They...
View ArticleThe lease timeout between avaiability group and the Windows Server Failover...
Hi,I am having some issues where I get a lease timeout from time to time. I have a Windows 2012 Failover Cluster with 2 nodes and 2 SQL 2012 Always-on Availability Groups. Both nodes are a physical...
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