Cross subnet communication to Windows failover cluster
Hello Hopefully this is the right location to post this, Our team is setting up Windows failover cluster to be access from across subnets. initially this is in a test environment. the issue we are...
View ArticleUnable to add the node in multi subnet cluster
This is 3 node production cluster ( multi subnet cluster). It was working fine. I evicted the DR node and tried to add it back, it throws an error.I am having issues only in adding the DR node. However...
View ArticleMicrosoft Network Load Balancing not working as expected
I wish to have a failover cluster for an IIS site in my domain. I have configured the cluster on port 80, however only once the network of that specific node is down will the cluster detect that node...
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Failover Cluster Manager bug on Server 2019 after .NET 4.8 installed - unable...
We ran into a nasty bug on Windows Server 2019 and I can't find any KB articles on it. It's really easy to replicate. 1. Install Windows Server 2019 Standard with Desktop Experience from an ISO. 2....
View Articles2d down after adding hard drives
s2d newbie here. This is a test environment, so nothing is probably supported hardware. the setupRunning two optiplex 3050's with windows server 2016. They each have a spinning disk and an ssd via...
View ArticleHow to expand vhdx disk VM on failover cluster
Hi,I want to know the right way in order to expand a VHDX disk of a VM running on a failover cluster of 2 nodes. The nodes and the guest OS are running Windows Server 2012 R2. I know that is posible to...
View ArticleSetting up Storage for Clustering
We have 3 Dell servers we are trying to put into a cluster, and a 4th machine will be added later (VM). My issue now is I do not know how to set up the storage on the machines PRIOR to creating the...
View ArticleCluster Aware Update (CAU) on Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) with Pre-staged...
I have been running into a bug with CAU in RS1-14393 where it doesn’t accept the Pre-staged AD Object (fails both as Powershell parameter and GUI config), and instead tries to generate/submit a new...
View ArticleMultiple SQL Cluster (2008, 2012, 2016) on a Single Windows Cluster
Hi Experts,Can I have multiple SQL Cluster configured on a single environment (Windows Cluster?For example - I have a 5 Node Windows 2012 R2 Windows Failover Cluster on which I want to configure 2...
View ArticleCluster Disk Driver Letter Fiasco
I have a 4 node cluster and my Cluster Disk on node1 is assigned a drive letter D: If I fail over my node1 to node2, the Drive Letter from Node1 gets assigned to Node2 and the Node2 Drive letter D:...
View ArticleDrain role Failed
We have three Node N-1, N-2, N-3. I drain role from N-2 and there10 VM's Moved out of 14. 4 VM are not moving getting error . Tried to move manually but the error same. Please assists All the Node in...
View ArticleVMs located on one of CSV volumes stopped migrating on one of cluster nodes
We have a 3 node cluster Windows 2016 with many VMs on 3 CSV volumes. At one moment (I'm not sure when) VMs located on first CSV volume stoped to migrate (live and quick) to fist node (only to first...
View Articleif resources fails, attempt restart on current node
Period For RestartsMaximum Restarts in the specified periodI am struggling to find anything that explains what this functionality means.If I set the maximum restarts to 3, then does the cluster try to...
View ArticleWSSD vs. Azure Stack HCI certification
A team member and I are having a debate. We want to know if it is "safe" to use the very recently released Lenovo SR635 or SR655 EPYC based servers, for building our own Win2019 Storage Spaces Direct...
View ArticleCSV Autopause - Single client contification start.
HI,I've just got a warning from my cluster that one of my CSVs was stopped. But I just dont get what was going on.From the Failoverclustering-CsvFs protocol I get this message:"Volume...
View ArticleFirewall ports Failover Clustering in Server 2016
Hello - I'm configuring MS Failover Cluster across two datacenters with different IP Ranges using server 2016. What firewall ports are needed to setup two nodes cluster and witness file share ?Thanksad
View ArticleSMB Signing breaks CSV access cross-node
Hey all, couldn't find an article that answers my problem, so starting my own :). Hopefully I put in enough detail.Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V Failover Cluster environment. 2 nodes. 1 SAN via SAS. Disks...
View ArticleCluster events not written to system event log
Hi,I have a Windows Server 2008 R2 cluster that is not writing cluster events to the system event log. When I trigger a failover event, the failover happens successfully but nothing is logged to the...
View ArticleCannot create checkpoint when shared vhdset (.vhds) is used by VM - 'not part...
We are trying to deploy 'guest cluster' scenario over HyperV with shared disks set over SOFS. By design .vhds format should fully support backup feature.All machines (HyperV, guest, SOFS) are installed...
View ArticleSCOM2016 monitoring S2D General File Server
We are running a SOFS and a GFS on a S2D cluster. We have SCOM2016 running with Storage Spaces Direct Management Pack and SCOM sees the SOFS shares with a lot of great information. I am not seeing the...
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