SAN Zoning for a Hyper-V Cluster
Best Practice for a FC SAN Zone has always been one Iniator Port and one Target Port per Zone. This insures that communication between the Server and Storage remain "clean" and also makes...
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we have 170 ip cameras for connecting the 2 HP servers 85 each and we need to store the recorded files in the SAN storage system for 120 days, the storage is almost 444TB exuding RAID.Our NVR...
View ArticleUnable to move quorum to other node
Hi, We have a 2 node cluster(2008 R2) configured with node and disk majority, from last 2 weeks i am unable to move the quorum resource to second node. It will allow me to move however the quorum gets...
View ArticleCan't remove Failover Cluster feature on Windows 2008 R2
HelloWhen remove the Failover Cluster feature has following message:Cannot remove Failover ClustingThis server is an active node in a failover cluster. Uninstalling the Failover CVlustering feature on...
View ArticleHow to backup the failover cluster 2012 witness disk
Hi experts:I have a failover cluster environment consist of three 201r2 datacenter edition, i know the witness is very important and i want to know how can i back up the witness disk.Thanks for your...
View ArticleUnable to create 2-Node Cluster - Timeout Server 2012
Hello Everyone,I have 2-2012 servers that I'm trying to setup clustering with. Individually they can create their own 1 node cluster no problem, adding to an existing cluster doesn't seem to work...
View ArticleService for all nodes of a cluster
Hello,I have a requirement of developing a service that runs on all nodes of a particular cluster at the same time. So, instead of only one instance running on a particular node (with failover and...
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...
View ArticleiSCSI target performance
Hello!There're a lot of iSCSI targets with one or two 1Gbps nics on market today but I have serious doubts about their performance: 1Gbps(or 2Gbps) compared to 6 Gbps in raw SAS/SATA make me think...
View ArticleAny native replication solution available to replicate volumes ?
EnvironmentOS = windows 2008/2012QueryAny native replication solution available to replicate windows volumes ? I want to replicatewindows shared volume to other site.Any comment will be appreciated....
View ArticleHow to create a high availability RRAS service
Hi experts,I would like to creat a RRAS service,but i want to know how to create a two node failover cluster for the RRAS VPN, Thanks.Regards.
View ArticleMaking VM dependent on Storage Volume
Hi,I was wondering if it is possible to make a VM dependent or to always migrate a VM to the same node as a CSV on a Hyper-V cluster.For example, I have a a VM with directly attached volumes as hard...
View ArticleHow to realize a green software for the high availability
Hi everybody,I have a little soft ware and i would like realize it for the high available, i want to put it on the CSV disk then share to our staf, but i get stack in how to do that, anybody can help...
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windows clustering 2012 R2 .Add cluster to the shared volume?
We have 2 nodes (Node 1-hpwdsql003 node 2-hpwdsql004) with windows server 2012 R2 on them.I am trying to create a failover cluster We created a cluster called hpwcsql002 for the nodes hpwdsql003 and...
View Article2 Hyper-V Servers with Failover Cluster and a single File Server and .VHDs...
I have 2 X M600 Dell Blades (100 GB local storage and 2 NICs) and a Single R720 File Server (2.5 TB local SAS storage and 6 NICs). I´m planning a Lab/developer enrironment using 2 Hyper-V Servers...
View ArticleWhat is correct method to deploy cluster aware technology using HA VMs?
Dear all, I recently had experience creating Hyper-V Server 2012 cluster. This allows for deploying a highly available virtual machine. That's fine. The business machine (virtual machine) becomes...
View Articlenew node in existing Failover cluster
we have a new server that we would like to setup on an existing Windows 2008R2 Failover cluster. I've set the server up with the Failover features. And, when I open Failover Cluster Manager, I now...
View ArticleNew Failover node in 2 node failover cluster
Before I add a new node to an existing failover cluster, do I need to setup the Quorum and other shared drives on this node? Just curious since the shared drives and quorum drive already exist on the...
View ArticleStorage Migration (Migrating from HP XP20000 to the VPLEX Server 2012 WSFC)
We are currently in the process of migrating from our old storage to the VNX with VPLEX from EMC.We have managed to successfully claim the luns from the HP XP for 2003 MSCS and 2008 MSCS.Not so...
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Add-VMHardDiskDrive anomaly
I am building a PowerShell script to build out a SQL cluster comprised of VMs. I have a 2012 R2 Hyper-V cluster with shared FC. Everything is working fine on it. But I ran into a strange occurrence...
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