CAU - ignore WSUS
I just installed new Windows Server 2012R2 cluster with Cluster Aware Updating. I'm testing CAU before going live with this cluser. CAU shows "No updates", but when I manually scan for updates from...
View ArticleConnection was interrupted between Failover cluster and shared storage
Hi guys,My Hyper-V server was composed of 2 HP servers, the OS is win2008, they formed a cluster, and the VM’s storage is shared by NetApp Snapdrive. I met an issue yesterday; one of the Failover...
View ArticleWhat is the value of the 'Name' attribute of an Instance of Resource Type...
See subject. I'm writing a Powershell script which is supposed to return the configured hostname and IP Address for a service associated with a role on a failover cluster. I'm using, e.g.. the...
View ArticleUpgrade of Integation Services (Windows 2012 R2) on Windows 2008 R2 with...
Here is the scenario:Legacy Host: Windows 2008 R2 Guest VM: Windows 2008 R2 with Exchange 2013 SP1 DAG cluster.After importing the VM (2008 R2 and Exchange 2013 DAG) into a 2012 R2 host (Cluster)....
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Missing disks in a guest cluster
Hello!There's a guest cluster named GuestCluster which consists of the two VMs (Win2012R2) - Guest1 and Guest2.Their vhdx-files along with the two guest cluster disks (wich are shared vhdx files...
View ArticleCluster Aware Updating Fails if Windows Firewall service is disabled
Hi,I have installed the cluster aware updating feature on a Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V cluster and it fails if the Windows Firewall service is disabled on cluster nodes. If I enable and start the service...
View ArticleCluster nodes
Hi Team,we have 2 nodes cluster set up, here if it is possible for 1 node put in to one data center and another node is put into different data center.ex :node 1 placed into [ABC DATA CENTER]node 2...
View ArticleTaking cluster disk offline made all other resources in the group to go offline.
Hi,We have three node windows 2008 R2 failover cluster. When we tried to take one of the cluster disk offline from a application and services, it made all other resources in that application and...
View ArticleMSMQ Clustering with load balancing
Hi,I understand the MSMQ clustering creates an active and a failover node. My intention is to have both active nodes and if one fails the other to take it's traffic. I don't want to waste a machine...
View Articlecannot add port rule to NLB
Hello,I have set up two Exchange 2010 CAS + HUB in a NLB cluster. ( W2K8 R2)I added some port rules: 25, 587, 995, 993 (All TCP traffic related to email, as you know).The thing is that I want to add...
View ArticleNLB Unicast and certificate for the machine
Hello,I have set up a two node nlb cluster, in unicast.On the other hand, I have a GPO with which every computer in the network gets acertificate from the CA, through autoenrollment.I am new to NLB ,...
View Article2 Node Cluster with Server 2008 R2 Cluster Disks Show as "Local Disk"
I have 2 Node Cluster with Server 2008 R2 with 13 LUNS presented as Clustered Disks within Failover Cluster Manger.When view Hard Disk Drives within Windows Explorer 10 Drives show as Type = Clustered...
View ArticleAdd port rule nlb cluster
Hello,I have a two-node NLB cluster (Wk28 R2),The thing is that I want to add another port rule, and then I go to"Host Properties" \ "Port rules" , and there I see the ones I have created so far, but...
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"Invalid Query" when opening failover cluster manager
I have a two node Hyper-V cluster running on 2012 R2 but I can no longer open failover cluster manager on either one of the servers.When it tries to connect it just fails with:I've tried both nodes and...
View ArticleSOFS How many spaces to create.
We are building a 2 node server 2012 R2 SOFS cluster. This will be used for backend storage for existing Hyper-V cluster. The 3 JBODS on the backend have 16 HDD and 16 SSD.I am wondering if I would get...
View ArticleWindows 2012 R2 guest cluster on VMware ESXi.5.5 using EMC NS480 FC San fails...
The intended setup is to build a Windows 2012 R2 guest cluster across 2 physical WMware ESXi 5.5 hosts using physical RDM luns off the EMC NS 480 presented to the hosts. The 3 presented luns are using...
View ArticleAny event entry when CSV is moving?
Is there are any event entry in event log when CSV is moving between nodes?
View Article"Packets Received Discarded" high on 2008R2 NLB Cluster
HiMy customer has a five node Windows 2008R2 NLB cluster (running Exchange 2010 CAS servers). The cluster is single NIC, running multicast and is virtualized in VMware. There are around 8000-9000 users...
View ArticleNLB configured on two Windows 2008 virtual machines 2nd disappears
I have tried to configure Windows Load Balancing using Microsoft multicast network load balancing (NLB) on two windows 2008 R2 ESX5.1 virtual machines. I am able to configure 2 host on NLB cluster of...
View ArticleCreate non-parametric subtask Windows HPC Server 2008 R2
How do I create a non-parametric subtask e.g. using the HPC DeveloperI can know how to create and usbmit jobs and (parametric) tasks but I cannot find documentation on how to specify subtasks.
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