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2019 Hyper-V Cluster - Quorum
Hi All,I just finished setting up a hyper-V cluster in our environment, a 3 node cluster.since the cluster node count is "Odd" will it still be recommended rather necessary to put a witness (disk) in...
View ArticleDisk Sharing - Server 2016 Cluster
I'm sure this is probably a newbie question, but it is so hard to find information.A person would think the ability to do this would be the most fundamental idea in failover clustering.I have Failover...
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 ArticleCollecting Cluster Performance Data
I’ve been using Windows Admin Center to view performance data as I execute different types of workloads in a Cluster with VMs and record the results. It works well visually, but if I run the workload...
View ArticleServer 2019 - Clustering Issue with UDP Port 3343
Evening all,We've recently ran through an in-place upgrade of our Cluster servers from 2016 to 2019 Datacenter edition. It all went very smooth and everything seemed to be working.However - a week...
View ArticleAdmin Center hyper-converged cluster error ('There are no more endpoints...
Hello! I have hyper-converged s2d cluster on windows server 2016 nodes. I'm trying manage it whith admin center. Everything was done with help of this article...
View ArticleCluster Shared Volumes: How to mask/unmask disk???
Hi,"Hyper-V Cluster Using Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) Migration" guide recommends to mask then unmask the disk while migrating stuff:"In the storage, unmask the CSV disk so that the old cluster can no...
View ArticleLoopback adapter for DR load balancing breaks failover cluster
I am not completely sure whether failover clustering is the right forum for this or whether I should rather post in Exchange. However, I think the root issue is failover clustering as I am experiencing...
View ArticlePower down AAG cluster each night
We have a non-production SQL AAG. One primary replica and one secondary replica with a continuous sync. Its mainly used for testing. To save some money we would like to shut down all nodes in the...
View ArticleUpgrading the Network Load Balancing(NLB) cluster from 2008r2 to 2012r2
Hi folks,I'd like to upgrade Network Load Balancing cluster from 2008r2 to 2012r2 and I need some steps I need to go through. There is one MS guide but deals with upgrade from 2003r2-2008...
View Article2016 Server Hyper-V Reverts to .XML files after joining a cluster
Has anyone else noticed a behavior in Windows Server 2016 that it reverts to using the old format .XML files for VM configurations after joining a cluster? In this case the cluster was 2012R2...
View ArticleDrive on all nodes in SQL Availability Group "Formatted" at the same time...
We have a 2 node SQL Availability Group on a Windows 2016 Std Cluster.SQL Server reported the databases suspect after the data drives on both servers appeared to have been formatted.On one of the...
View ArticleStorage Spaces Direct: Number of volumes per cluster?
In Planning volumes in Storage Spaces Direct it says:We recommend making the number of volumes a multiple of the number of servers in your cluster. For example, if you have 4 servers, you will...
View ArticleFailover Cluster is functioning but errors are generated
Hi All, I have a failure cluster that consist of two nodes with storage based on S2D.Every day I'm getting errors: 1205 - The Cluster service failed to bring clustered role 'Cluster Group' completely...
View ArticleCluster Aware Update
Hi, I have Windows Server 2012 R2 Cluster having 3 nodes and 15 to 15 VMs over Hyper-V Cluster, Normally for Windows update we use local WSUS. Firstly we download update on each cluster machine,...
View Articlemodify the virtual machine settings to limit the processor features used by...
dears,i have a hyperv 2 nodes cluster configured.All virtual machines are on the first node and everything was working fine.recently im facing issues in the live migration: (virtual machine is using...
View ArticleAll VMs pause when certain nodes own the CSV
Hi.So ive added 2 nodes to a 6 node Server 2016 Hyper V Cluster. Hardwarewise they are the same servers (dell 730s). At first all looked fine, VMs running on those nodes, can live migrate from and to...
View ArticleSOFS with Storage Spaces cluster
Guys,I have Win 2012 R2 SOFS cluster on top of Storage Spaces cluster with tiered storage and all. I am planning to upgrade it to Server 2016 but there are less to no info on Storage Space cluster...
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AlwaysOn WSFC 2016 CNO was moved
Hi All,I have SQL Server 2016 (EE) with AlwaysOn configured in my environment. During a recent maintenance window I was updating IP Addresses/Names of resources in my WSFC and as a result the CNO was...
View ArticleSOFS with Storage Spaces cluster
Guys,I have Win 2012 R2 SOFS cluster on top of Storage Spaces cluster with tiered storage and all. I am planning to upgrade it to Server 2016 but there are less to no info on Storage Space cluster...
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