HP StoreVirtual Storage | Lefthand OS 12.0 + Server 2012 R2 + Failover...
Hi Everyone,Here's some background:We have 2x HP BL460c G7 blades in a C3000 Chassis, attached via 2x VirtualConnect modules to 6x HP P4500 G2 LeftHands, via iSCSI. There's a AD 2012 R2 Directory...
View ArticleAlwaysOn Cluster reboot due to file share witness unavailability
Hi Team,Anyone came across this scenario in AlwaysOn Availability Group (two node), file share witness times out and RHS terminate and cause the cluster node to reboot. File share witness is for...
View ArticleBitlocker protected cluster disks fail to mount
HelloI am trying to Bitlocker protect some CSVs.I am following the instructions here:https://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/dn383585.aspxI can format and prepare the disk, and enable Bitlocker...
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HiWe have a Server 2012 2 Node Cluster, the purpose of the cluster is ot run the Scale Out File Server role and this role appears to be online and functioning normally.However we have an error on the...
View ArticleStretched General File Server FoC Questions
Hi all,We are currently in the process of building a multi-site (stretched?) failover cluster for our general purpose file server. We will be moving away from a NAS appliance which has been causing us...
View ArticleSQL Server 2014 Failing to install in a cluster
Dear All,When we are attempting to install SQL Server 2014 on a one node cluster, we are getting the following error. We know it storage related we just don't know what and why :PProblem signature:...
View ArticleServer 2012 R2 Witness Disk won't failover
Hi,I have a 2 node cluster with a shared witness disk for Quorum. when I lose connection to the disk from 1 node, the ownership fails over to the other node, this is what I expect. however if I test...
View ArticleMS Cluster File Servers, disconnect public network on one node will not...
Hi All, I'm new to MS Cluster. Recently, I setup a Cluster File Server by two nodes. Everything works fine unless the network adapter. I found that the failover is failure if I unplug the network cable...
View ArticleShadow Copies on 2012 R2 File Server Cluster
Hello all!I've inherited a two node physical 2012 R2 file server cluster that contains a few SMB shares on a single clustered disk. I'd like to enable shadow copies for this shared disk but want to...
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Changing Quorum drive letter with One node in Cluster.
I am Trying to change Drive letter of Quorum and MSDTC to another drive letter as a requirement.Where as i am getting a error as below.Failed to get available drive letters because some of the nodes...
View ArticleCluster-aware updating - Self updating not working
Hi,I have a Windows Server 2012 failover cluster with 2 nodes, and I am having problems gettign the Self updating to work properly.The Analyze CAU Readiness does not report any issues, and I have been...
View ArticleHow to configure automatic start option of the Hyper-V role (Windows 2012 R2)
Hi,If there a way to configure the automatic start up option of each Virtual Machine?I know that you can't use the VMM settings to setup the Automatic Start action, and the Cluster Hyper-V setting only...
View ArticleMicrosoft update KB 3002657 and 2008 R2 failover cluster for virtualization
After installing Microsoft update KB 3002657 on my Windows 2008 R2 failover cluster for virtualization, nodes in cluster lost connection to CSV and all my VM's were moved to node owning the volume.I...
View ArticleQuestion about cluster node NodeWeight property
Hi,I have a three nodes (A/B/C) windows 2008 r2 sp1 cluster testCluster, and installed KB2494036 for three nodes,suppose Node A is a active node. I configured node C's NodeWeight property to 0, and...
View ArticleCluster 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...
View ArticleNLB on multiple VLAN
Hi,Due to a migration of networks and server upgrade (out with 2003, in 2012). The 2003 are on a VLAN different than the future production VLAN for 2012. The idea would be on the new 2012 box, to have...
View ArticleRHS Issues - Cluster node slows to crawl. VM's inaccessible.
I keep having problems in my HyperV cluster with RHS. I have not been able to pinpoint where this issue is coming from. I see errors in the cluster EventID 1069 "SCVMM VMName Resources failed"Then...
View ArticleCluster sensitivity to planned outages
In the case of a virtualized Microsoft cluster using a converged infrastructure (Cisco UCS with network and storage over the network), is there a way to tweak the cluster services to be a bit more...
View ArticleClustered Tiered Storage Space - no optimization report
I have a clustered SOFS Server and I am currently using CSV's for Hyper-V. I have enabled the optimization task and added the report per https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn789160.aspx. The...
View ArticleDisable - hang detection we have for Failover Clustering. -> what are the...
hi ,HangRecoveryAction of my cluster Hyper-v2012 R2 IS Set to Causes a Stop error (Bugcheck) on the cluster node. this setting may reboot the server in the production hours.So i want to set it Logs...
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