Cluster VMs sometime fail while doing an export-vm
I'm using a powershell script to export some Clustered (2012 R2 Hyper-V) VMs through task scheduler. Every now and then a VM is restarted by cluster during the export-vm. The errors found from the...
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The "Cluster Group" does not contain a File Share Witness or a Witness disk.
Hi,I've been given a 4 node Server 2008 R2 cluster to work on. I have a couple of file servers under services and applications (file1 and file2). If I look under storage I see my quorum disk listed in...
View ArticleError while configuring ADC (Additional Domain Controller)
Hello Experts,I am configuring ADC (Additional Domain controller) in a member server which is in workgroup. while configuring ADC on that server, I got a window saying "additional information for this...
View ArticleQuick migration notification using Msvm_ class
Hi,I have a question about monitoring notifications for Quick migration.I can successfully monitor the LIVE migration notification using Msvm_MigrationJob class using WMI mechanism.But same class does...
View ArticleCluster Aware Updating - Failed to enter maintenance mode.
Hello everyone,I am trying to run Cluster Aware Updating and I thought everything went well:-) But that was just on the first node of 2. When the second node of cluster is trying to get to maintenance...
View ArticleUpgrading clusters to 2k8 (from 2k3) - Questions on CNO/VCO objects.
I am upgrading 2 clusters from Server2k3 to Server2k8 - and the issue is keeping the same VCO's. Here is the situation. In order to test before going live, we are completely stopping all cluster...
View ArticleFailed to register service principal name” on Hyper-V host
hiI have hyper v fail over cluster with 4 hosteswin server 2012 R2after I run the validation i check the report with warning Failed to register service principal name” on Hyper-V hosthow can i solve...
View ArticleSQL Server 2012 failover cluster issue
Hello,I have setup SQL Server 2012 SE cluster environment on Windows Server 2008 R2 EE for our production. This is an Active Passive setup with just one instance. The environment is based of a Shared...
View ArticleScripting cluster failover for patching (2008 server not R2)
We have a number of Windows 2008 (not R2) servers running sql. We currectly patch using a third party tool (Shavlik) and would like to automate the process. eg. failover, patch, failback, check...
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Database Availability Group - Network Problem
Hi All i have a question, hope that you can help me.My domain have 2 site. Each site have 3 mailbox server.This morning at 1 AM, mailbox database active move from HQ site to DR site because of network...
View ArticleQuestion about dynamic witness with Windows Server 2012 R2
Hi folks,Happy new year first :-)I just have a question concerning the new behavior of the witness provided by Windows Server 2012 R2.According to the Microsoft documentation I can read: The quorum...
View ArticleHow to manage windows cluster on windows server 2008 R2
Hi I want to know how to properly shutdown or stop windows cluster with out failover or failing it.I have successfully created windows cluster on win 2008 R2 sp1 using vmware with starwind software...
View ArticleClustering Network Issue After Rebuilding Node: Node A is Reachable from Node...
Hey Guys - I've got an issue I've been working on for a couple of days now and need help with. Our company has a VDI cluster which has a total of 5 nodes. Recently, one went down and was rebuilt. I...
View ArticleSetting VMs to not be on the same host?
Howdy,I don't know the term for this so had trouble searching... We have multiple hyper-V host machines and most of our guest machines are created in pairs (e.g. web01, web02). What is the easiest,...
View ArticleDSM QFE Number mismatch on windows 2012
Hi, my validation tests are failing with below error on MPIO disks on windows 2012 standard clustered serverFor the device-specific module (DSM) named Microsoft DSM, versions do not match between node...
View ArticleCluster node networking
I have five node Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V cluster. I put one node to Maintance mode and all VMs migrated to other hosts. I pulled out LAN cables form that node for testing (one out, waited a...
View ArticleWindows 2012 R2 Cluster
I have a 5 node cluster with a shared clustered disk connect to a dell equalogic ps4000i. I was doing maintenance on one of the nodes (node 3), which happened to be the node owner of the clustered...
View ArticleFailover Cluster in a box
Hi,I'm in the process of building a test environment which requires a failover cluster for a SQL Server Always on configuration of 2 DB nodes. I have a single Windows 2012 R2 host server with Hyper-V...
View ArticleCluster Resource offline, Windows 2008R2
Hi All, I have cluster nodes.My cluster was working fine untill last week, after that it failed to bring the resource online.I see that cluster IP is online, but name not online,.I have checked from...
View ArticleCluster Node Unable to Maintain Cluster Membership
My cluster logs are very similar to the above thread... was it ever addressed?[SV] Already protecting connection with message security level 'sign'[FTI] Stream already exists to node: false[Channel IP...
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