Failover VM's Servers all grouping together under one server?
When I add VM server's to high availability using the wizard in the failover cluster manager. They all add under the first server that I add instead off in the top section individually as roles ( See...
View ArticleCluster dies when 3rd node is on
Hi,At work we have 3 servers within a cluster (Windows Server 2012 R2). On Monday the cluster failed and started to live migrate boxes to servers which were rebooting. We had a major site outage, where...
View ArticleWindows 2003 File Share 4 node Cluster: Does Cluster Resources need to be...
Hello All,Recently, on a 4 node Windows 2003 File Share Cluster, we encountered a problem where when trying to remove few shares (that were no longer in use) directly from SAN end crashed the entire...
View ArticleHow to schedule Cluster logs to be generated for Microsoft Failover Clusters...
Hi, As per my understanding we always have to generate Cluster logs manually on the cluster nodes to get these generated.Is there any way we can schedule Cluster Logs to be generated every time so that...
View ArticleThe file cannot be opened because it is in the process of being deleted
Hi,I'm cleaning up a Hyper-V Cluster WS2012R2. There is only 1 node the cluster for the moment. All VMs have been moved to another cluster already except for 2. When I try to delete them I get the...
View ArticleValidate cluster fails
HiI installed sql server failover cluster successfully. On installation time when I validate cluster it didn't give me any error that time it was success.Now when I click again on 'validate this...
View ArticleInexplainable 2008 Failover Cluster Issues
Hi,We have a 2008 Failover Node & Disk Majority SQL 2005 cluster.There are 2 nodes in the cluster with 2008 Ent 64-bit SP2 installed.At around 00:20 each morning we see various FailoverClustering...
View ArticleMove all cluster group in a single command line
i want to move all the cluster group from node to node 1 in a single command line. As of now, I'm using three commands since I have three groups in my cluster server.Cluster Group "Cluster Group"...
View ArticleCluster Name and Resources DNS update interval
Hi! I'm wondering if it is possible to change the default DNS update interval for a cluster name and it's resources?As far as I can find out, it updates DNS every 24 hours if it's...
View Articlenetft.sys is the cause for the bugchk blue screen on the server Windows 2008...
Hiwe have the server geting rebooted by a bugchk error for netft.sysPlease let me know if we have any fix for this issue. i am not sure wht is causing the issue on the serverthe server is windows 2008...
View ArticleConnection Broker session information
HelloI was wondering if it was possible to view the active sessions or monitor the session information of the Connection Broker. The Connection Broker decides on the server on which the client can...
View ArticleHyper-V Cluster with Storage Server AH
Hello Everyone, I have a question about Clustering&Storage.I have two servers and what I wanted to do is: -A cluster of 2 nodes-The Storage directly on the Nodes-The storage AHI don't want a third...
View ArticleAdding a shared folder in Failover Cluster Manager: Error "This shared...
Hello,I have 2 Windows 2008 R2 Ent server in a File Cluster. On one of the empty LUN's (my F: drive) I have just restored 1TB folder called "user" (using Backup Exec 12.5) within that folder are 100's...
View ArticleNode in Cluster drops NIC connection. Troubleshooting steps?
Hey all, Having a Node that occasionally has its NIC disconnect on us (about once a month). We get nothing but the Event ID 1127 stating that the network interface fails. Its a NIC team and I've...
View ArticleProper steps to fail over to another host in a cluster
Hello,Pardon my ignorance. What is the proper steps to force a fail over to the standby host in a cluster with two nodes?My secondary host is the currently the active host for custer name. I would...
View ArticleBuild a SQL 2008 R2 Failover clustering
Hi,Am looking for a 2 node active passive SQL server clustering for testing purposeI believe that for building a cluster we need a AD, DNS and DHCP and shared disk ..I have searched in Internet and as...
View ArticleNode and Disk Majority
Dear All, Is there a way to configure "Node and Disk Majority" in Windows Server 2012 R2 Failover Cluster? If so, how?Thanks in advance.
View ArticleHyper-V Failover Cluster Storage Stress Test
Dear All, I already have CSV Volumes in my Hyper-V Failover Cluster which is newly built. Is there a way to test the storage through some stress tool like we use jetstress for exchange for...
View ArticleCluster Aware Update Hyper-v
Dear All, How can we configure Cluster-aware updates for Hyper-V Failover Cluster. Any links to blogs/article would be appreciated. Thanks.
View ArticleFailed VM in Failover Cluster Manager
We have a problem that seems to be caused by 3 VMs in our cluster that have failed. The cluster is a server 2012 R2 cluster.The VMs are not in Hyper-V anymore, but they still appear in the Failover...
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