Advice on File Server VM Cluster on top of Scaled out File Server Cluster Setup
HI, I currently have a general file server cluster setup with 4 x (Dell R620) nodes and 1 x (Dell PowerVault MD 3420) DAS Storage. Everything works as intended, fail over, performance etc. However the...
View ArticleStorage Spaces turn into Clustered Storage Spaces when creating WFOC, but...
Hi everybody and thank you in advance. Environment:I have 2 separate servers (physical) each running Windows Server 2012 R2.Each one having its own local storage attached via DAS using HBAs (SATA SSD...
View ArticleGetting Below Error on the time of Network Validation Task (Win2k12)
Network interfaces - Heartbeat and - Heartbeat are on the same cluster network, yet address is not reachable from using UDP on port 3343.RegardsRD
View ArticleHelp needed fixing a broken Windows 2008R2 SQL cluster
We had 2 Windows 2008R2 servers using Windows Clustering Services to create a HA SQL Server instance. They are using iSCSI shared storage. One of the servers failed to rejoin the cluster after a reboot...
View ArticleCluster Network Failed on One Node
Hello Experts, I am looking for your suggestions on below described issues with Multi-Site MSFC on 2012 R2.We have 2 Physical Fujitsu Primergy BX920 S4 servers with CNA cards located both at different...
View ArticleMicrosoft Failover Clustering Events 1126, 1127 and 1129. Hearbeat Network...
Environment and problem:2 servers 2012 in a Microsoft failover clustering which is going to be used for SQL AlwaysON. There is no common storage between the servers, since I do not need one. These are...
View Articlereplacing storage on failover cluster
Dear all,I have a 2-Nodes Fail-over Cluster running on top of a HP Store Easy 1430 8 TB SATA Storage that needs to be re-installed. I have 4 VMs running there, how do I do?What will happen with the two...
View ArticleHyper-V cluster - 500VM's + - clussvc.exe - CPU usage
HiWe have multiple hyper-V clusters running on 2012R2In the largest cluster, 13 nodes, 500 vm's, clussvc.exe uses about 25-30% CPU, and there is a good amount of network traffic between all the nodes....
View ArticleFailover Cluster logs missing??
Hi Gents,I have a cluster in hyper v 2012 r2 environment and i notice our logs (Failover Cluster > Diagnostic) are lost unexplained when i tried to review it. I have no rational explanation for...
View Articlelive migrating from a non-csv to a cluster share volume Windows server 2012 r2
Good evening, I am trying to migrate a VM and it's VHDs from a local storage to a CSV; but when I perform it, it fails with not enough space even though there is more then enough in the CSV. I read...
View ArticleHow to move SAN disks (LUNs) from one node to another node quickly?
Dears,I have a two nodes SQL cluster, there are five SQL instances, each instance uses 6 LUNs, so total I have 30 Luns; if I want to reboot the active node the cluster service will take long time to...
View ArticleHow long is too long to complete Windows Updates on all cluster nodes?
So I'm confused. All the documentation I've found regarding applying Windows Updates to all Failover Cluster nodes say that all nodes should have the same set of Windows Updates on them. That's fine,...
View ArticleNLB Print Server support for Windows Server 2012 R2
Hello, We have a customer who wants to install Print Server in NLB environment because Print Server redundancy is necessary.But we already know that Print Server configuration in NLB is not supported...
View ArticleHelp needed fixing a broken Windows 2008R2 SQL cluster
We had 2 Windows 2008R2 servers using Windows Clustering Services to create a HA SQL Server instance. They are using iSCSI shared storage. One of the servers failed to rejoin the cluster after a reboot...
View ArticleCluster Name not coming online
Hi,We have a 2 node cluster on Windows 2012 R2 Standard and suddenly the cluster name is failing to come online. Both nodes are up and have joined the cluster, the IP address for the cluster is also...
View ArticleNetwork Load Balancer -- Multicast VIP is not able to ping from outside VLAN
I configured NLB on Windows 2012 with Multicast setting. I am not able to pingNLB virtual IP from outside VLAN. However I am able to ping dedicated IP on machines from outside VLAN.Any comment will be...
View ArticleEquallogic VSS Requestor Memory Leak( HIT KIT 4.8 Windows)
Hello,I have a 8 node cluster (W2K12R2) with Equallogic VSS service( EqlReqService.exe) on each node ( Dell PowerEdge M620) utilizing +/- 20Gb of memory. The only workaround i have is to restart the...
View ArticleExtending Clustered Drives
Hi All,We have a request to extend one of the clustered drives on an SQL 2008 Cluster hosted on windows 2008 r2. We will follow the below steps to extend it. Kindly let us know if these are correct...
View ArticleMulti subnet failover cluster setup
Hi.Cluster services already created also working with multi subnet failover clusterTotal three Nodes, Two Nodes hosted in Primary site and One Node hosted at Remote Site all the nodes are installed OS...
View ArticleHyper-V 2012 host keeps pausing
I'm working with a 6 node Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V failover cluster. One of the hosts was recently paused (using failover cluster manager) for some maintenance. (configured the delayed ack for the...
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