Windows Server 2012: SMB share with transparent failover
Have a nice day to all!I have 2 HP Proliant DL380P Gen8 servers containing 8 x 1TB disks (with P420i HP Smart Array RAID Controller) in each server.So, there are 2 arrays on every server:1. 2 x 1TB in...
View Articlenode failed over then later failed back
We have a 2node,disk majority, failover on windows 2008R2 failover cluster.Recently, we had a DataCenter shutdown and our Active node was shutdown and did, in fact, failover to the inactive node....
View ArticleUncluster SQL
Hi,We have recently decided to uncluster our 2-node active/passive SQL cluster with the intention of then virtualising the remaining single node.After some research it seems I have 2 options:Convert...
View ArticleSql Clustering
HI,I m having node1 and node2. configured windows clustering and also configured MSDTC.SQL Server and SQL Agent is not showing in the other resources.I ran cluster.exe restype "SQL Server Agent"...
View Articlecluster validation failed - unable to connect via WMI
when i try to do a cluster validation on my 2 node cluster, one of the remote nodes shows thisFailed to validate node xxx. Unable to connect to xxx via WMI. This may be a networking issue or firewall...
View Articlerequest time out when pinging sql cluster ip
i am getting a lot of request time outs when pinging the cluster ip address on my 2 node cluster. But when i do continuous ping on the server ip address itself, it seems to be ok. The timeout seems to...
View Articlemoving sql to new service application
i currently have a 2 sql servers in a cluster. i created a new service/app and now I want to move the whole sql server app to this new app. how can this be done?
View ArticleServer 2012 R2 Running Failover cluster role on Domain Controler
I absolutely need to have Domain controller running failover Cluster node,we have been doing it in 2008r2 and there are documents from Microsoft stating it is possible but not recommendedbut the...
View ArticleChoosing the correct clustering method
Hi, I currently have a small 3 server environment (win 2012), 1 PDC, and 2 Servers running hyper-v. I have 8 or so hyper v machines on one of the servers and using hyper-v replica to replicate all of...
View ArticleCUA: One or more errors occurred while checking the status of Windows...
Cluster with 2 hosts 2012 R2Scheduled CAU fails with:CAU run {4EFE116C-AB49-456D-8EED-F7EDC764DA49} on cluster Cluster1 failed. Error Message:One or more errors occurred while checking the status of...
View Article'Beowulf Cluster' under a Windows environment ?
Hello,Anyone have thoughts on our experiment to build a simple 'Beowulf Cluster' under a Windows environment ? Presently we have four older Dell single core machines, nearly identical, that would fit...
View Article8.3 Name Generation in Cluster
HiI have a Scale Out File Server based on Server 2012 which is used for storage for our Hyper-V VHDX's. We have two nodes in the Cluster and the underlying storage is a Dell PowerVault MD3220 (SAS).We...
View ArticleHyper-V 2008 R2 cluster down
Hello,We have a 3 node Hyper-V 2008 R2 failover cluster. Yesterday we had problems and all VM's on node 3 went down. At 17:00 the back-up starts of the VM's which are on CSV(with DPM 2010 and hardware...
View ArticleCannot clear "Current read-only" on pass through disk
This is not the end of the world, but it's very annoying so I'm hoping somebody can explain what's going on or perhaps suggest some additional troubleshooting.Here's the scenario: Server 2012 Core VM...
View ArticleCluster Updating Readiness Results
I am configuring Cluster-Aware Updating on a 5-node cluster. At this time I'm not enabling Self-Updating mode. Instead I'm going to use Remote-Updating mode. In the Cluster Aware Updating console I ran...
View ArticleLive Migration Fails to only 2 nodes in my 10 nodes cluster. quick migration...
Hi, I have a strange issue here, with my 12 Node Hyper-V 2012R2 Cluster, I can live Migrate Between All nodes except two.! Node 7 and Node 10I can quick Migrate to these Nodes, and Live migrate from...
View ArticleSQL 2012 std Cluster/ W2012R2 on ESXi 5.1
As I was reading the posts it appear that ESXi 5.1 does support MSCS on W2012 server.We are trying to setup a SQL 212 cluster (not always on bc we don't have Enterprise license) on two vm hosts running...
View ArticleHow to make 2 Node File Cluster with SAS Disks
Hello,I cant fine any detailed, specific information and answer on this questionI have 2 Servers, Say HP, with 4 SAS disks each, 1 for OS (2012R2Data) and 3 available.I want to create fault tolerant...
View ArticleHost Agent Service critical - Paging file is too small for this operation to...
Hi all,at the moment I have the problem that some of my hosts get in the errorstate critical in VMM 2012 SP1. The error details in VMM are:Error (2912)An internal error has occurred trying to contact...
View ArticleWindows 2012 Hyper-v Cluster Live Migration Failure
This is a fairly new deployment. When I first started having this issue, I foundhttp://support.microsoft.com/kb/2779204, which suggests that gpupdate /force will temporarily resolve the issue. That...
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