Affordable iSCSI or JBOD solutions for personal lab environment
I am looking for an affordable solution for my personal lab that will enable me to play with Hyper-V Failover Clusters. I have looked at iSCSI and JBOD solutions but they were all way out of my price...
View ArticleHow to Change Share Name of drive in cluster available storage disk
Hi, Can anyone tell me about the sharename changing in a Cluster available storageplease see the scenario i did Created 2 Win2k8 R2 Srv and enabled cluster named CLUTEST its IP is 10.10.0.250 ( Cluster...
View ArticleSteps for moving Server 2008 witness disk to new LUN?
I've recently set up a new SAN and I would like to start moving my existing cluster volumes over to the new SAN. I'm assuming I should start with the witness disk? Can anyone tell me the correct...
View ArticleVolume Mount Points in Server 2012 Failover Cluster
I am trying to figure how I configure a LUN to use a Mount Point and be available in a failover cluster. I am currently only able to access a LUN if it is set as a CSV Volume or assigned a drive...
View ArticleThe access disk is more slow when insert 10st disk with Windows Server 2008...
I have a problem in a MSCS when add more than 9 disk in the nodes.When add 10 disk, the disk management is more slow and all operations whit disks spend a lot of time. The access to disk needs about 5...
View ArticleHigh Availability workgroup
hi all,how can i configure a highly available FTP windows servers resides on the DMZ without being a domain joined computers ?is there any solution to do this and what is your recommendations.thanks
View ArticleHigh Availability Storage - How??
HiI am just getting into the whole clustering and high availability area, particularly focusing on hyper-v. I already know about having redundancy for all the components which make this solution up...
View ArticleCluster Quorum drive is dirty
I have 2 node windows 2008 R2 cluster and the Quorum drive has become dirty. While created a new file/folder, getting an error disk structure is corrupted and un readable. I need to run chkdsk /F to...
View ArticleCSV Best Practices
IOPS are the deciding factor when it comes to single CSV or multiple CSV.....if IOPS required by VMs hosted on the CSV are enough then one CSV is good enough and easy to manage.....and if the workload...
View ArticleMultiple Clusters in Private Cloud
Dear All.....What would be desirable/recommended in a Private Cloud setup.....To have a single cluster with N number of nodes with N number of CSV.....OR Multiple Clusters with limited number of nodes...
View ArticleMicrosoft Windows Server 2012 CSV Best Practices
Dear All.....Can anyone list down best practices with respect to Cluster Shared Volumes such as number of partitions per LUN, number of VMs per Volume, etc......And whether multiple Cluster Shared...
View ArticleCluster Drive letter missing after failover
Hi Everyone,I have a 2 node file cluster on windows server 2008 R2 SP1, was well working before. However since few days its giving me trouble. Node1=FS01Node2=FS02when ever there is a failover from...
View ArticleMaximum LUNS in Hyper-V 2012 Cluster
Hi,In Hyper-V 2008 R2, I was told that "Windows does not have a great track record managing many LUNs. From experience we see scale issues anywhere at 150 LUNs and above."I was also told "MSFT is...
View ArticleQuestion about a failover issue with Windows 2012 cluster
Hi all,I implemented at one of my Customer a Windows cluster 2012 for SQL Server AlwaysOn and we faced a problem during a failover test scenario but I just want anyone to confirm if the behavior is...
View ArticleCluster Disk failover problem
Hi EveryoneI have built a Windows 2008 R2 Failover Cluster. It is scheduled to be a HyperV cluster, but I have removed HyperV from the equation as I am having problems.Its a 2 node cluster connecting...
View ArticleCannot add cluster disk on windows 2012
I have 2 servers connected to a shared storage array using Fibre Channel. Currently there are 2 luns on the storage device. From the Failover Cluster Manager, when I select “Add Disk” from Storage –...
View Articledfs for quorum file share witness in AG config?
Hi,I'm setting up my first AG using 2 nodes at two sites. We setup a DFS path that points to and replicates a share on both nodes that I'd like to use as the Quorum File Share. That way my Quorum...
View ArticleQuestion about a failover issue with Windows 2012 cluster
Hi all,I implemented at one of my Customer a Windows cluster 2012 for SQL Server AlwaysOn and we faced a problem during a failover test scenario but I just want anyone to confirm if the behavior is...
View ArticleDisimalar RAID Configurations and Validation Check in a Two Node Failover...
I am currently trying to put together a two node Windows 2012 Hyper-V cluster. I have two identical servers except for the RAID configuration. On one server I have a RAID 10 with 4 disks which are a...
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