Reclaim disk space after deleting VHD
Hello,There is a case where a Hyper-V cluster is installed. We created an new LUN ,than we moved one VHD from the existing LUN to the new one but the free space is still the same on the first LUN. (...
View ArticleMulti-Instance SQL Failover Cluster (Active-Active Cluster) - Database writes
In my organization we stood up a test SQL failover cluster. We began with the typical 2 node architecture where node1 holds the SQL role and node2 is configured as an additional node on standby in the...
View ArticleDR node 3 showinf as down with its network unavailable. Any threshold
Hi Team, We have WSFC between Primary and DR sites. 2 nodes in primary and 1 node in DR. Unfortunately, node 3 goes down very frequently and we are not able to detect the root cause. Even if primary...
View Articleconvert 2 nodes cluster to standalone
Hi,I'd like to convert 2 nodes cluster (2008 server) to a standalonde server :- move all services to one node (node1)- stop node 2- delete node2 from cluster- delete cluster role from node 2and then, I...
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 ArticleLoad Balancing
Question with Window Server 2012 Network Load balancing My port range is set From 2000 to 2050, when I send file through port 2008 to cluster, will the file reallocate to other port or still will...
View ArticleWSFC Virtual IPs and GARP
Where I work we are setting up a new system and I am experiencing a problem I am hoping others have experienced and can offer some recommendations on. I have setup a new Windows Server 2012 R2 2-node...
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Can't configure Cluster Aware Updating
I'm trying to install the Cluster Aware Updating service. But I'm not be able to fix this error:“Unable to create the CAU clustered role because a Network Name resource could not be created. This can...
View ArticleSharing entire cluster volume
Hi, I am trying to share the entire cluster volume in one shot instead of individually creating a share for each subfolder under the volume, is this possible?
View ArticleWindows Failover cluster between Physical and Virtual nodes
Dear Team,One of our customer wants to build a SQL Cluster where 1<sup>st</sup> node is Physical server and 2<sup>nd</sup> node will be VM running on VMware ESX 6.0.As per my...
View ArticleSetup New Windows 2012 R2/2016 Server As Domain Controller and Clustering
Actual Setting 1. Windows 2008 R2 Servers Work Group running as a Remote Desktop Services (RDS) Server (or old name: terminal services) giving remote offices access to a Medical Billing Apps.2. SQL...
View ArticleDelete and recreate bitlocker-encrypted clustered file shares?
Hi all - I have a Server 2012 Cluster connecting to a SAN with Basic Disks shared out to 2 different Clustered Shared Volumes.However, I would like to extend one of the 4TB drives to 6TB (only...
View ArticleEnable-ClusterS2D : Failed to set FaultDomainAwaressDefault on storage...
Hi All,Anyone know what this error means? Cheers!'{1}\\Cluster.lab\root/Microsoft/Windows/Storage/Providers_v2\SPACES_StorageSubsystem.ObjectId="{33cfa510-9b0e-4f0a-8faa-73dbad8d4751}:SS"' At line:1...
View ArticleOPS Microsoft Server Medium: The system detected an address conflict for IP...
Hi All,Whenever my cluster resource move from one Node to other I am getting few error/warning message. Can anyone help me to understand why?Cluster 2012R2 Witness File Share Application Cluster: SQL...
View ArticleWindows 2016 Hyper-V cluster
Hi, my plan is to install a new Hyper-V 2016 cluster. My plan is to run Exchange 2016, SQL 2014/2016 (Navision C5) Exchange sever 2016, Domain controller 2016 and Terminal server 2016. I will be...
View ArticleNode failure in S2D Hyperconverged cluster
The data within a S2D cluster is reilient to a node failure, but what happens with the VM's that were running on the failed node? Are they relaunched automatically on the remaining nodes?
View ArticleNode in cluster - status changes to "paused"
We have seven Windows 2012 R2 nodes in a Hyper-V cluster. They are all identical hardware (HP BladeSystem). For a while, we had only six nodes, and there were no problems.Recently, we added the seventh...
View Articlewin2k16 storage replica 2 node stretched cluster, cannot add disks
Hi all,I have a 2 node storage replica stretched cluster, but I cannot add the local disk to the cluster. My hw config is:- HP DL380Gen9 with P440 Array controller, one channel for 22 x 1.2TB SAS...
View Articlelive migration failed - VM restarted
Dear All,I have cluster with WIndows 2012 R2 with all updates installed.When trying to migrate or drain role - some time the operation doesn't complete and in log I see next errors:Cluster network name...
View ArticleWindows 2008 R2 DFS cluster nodes network issues after Convenience rollup...
The last couple of days we have seen issues on Windows 2008 R2 clusters. The symptoms on the servers are: -The system evenlog is filled with DistributedCOM errors. -The starting events is a Tcpip...
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