migration of 2008R2 cluster to 2012 R2
friends apologies if this has been discussed number of times...i have a 2008R2 cluster running which is not connected to internetnow i understand there are many reasons for me to upgrade but i cant...
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...
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Hyper-V cluster not started
The situation is such. There is Hyper-V cluster from three Windows Server 2012 servers. The general disk subsystem is connected as iSCSI. All this worked without failures.It was required to transport...
View ArticleCluster Management not working
Hello everyone,since today in the morning one of our Failover Clusters could not be managed anymore:- Hyper-V Manager is not showing VMs - Failover Cluster Manager does not connect to the Cluster -...
View ArticleManaged switch for IGMP multicast NLB
Which affordable fully managed gigabit switch supports MS Network Load Balancing in IGMP multicast mode?
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Hyper-V iSCSI Target
hi,This is my first time I'm trying to use clustering using Microsoft iSCSI Target. I've setup all the settings on iSCSI Target according to few tutorials and they in demo's all Initiators are...
View ArticleUnable to ping resource after failing it over to second node
Hi..I have created a cluster with 2 nodes(node1,node2) and configured 2 resources(resource1,resource2) on it.Am able to ping the resource1 on both nodes.But for resource2,am able to ping it only when...
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CSV showing - backup in progress, redirected Access
friends ...i was testing Veeam B&R and as the backup was taking much time i had to stop it in between now my CSVs are showing backup in progress, redirected access. I tried all the options like...
View ArticleCanot Add Storage Pool to Signle Node Cluster
Hi. I want to prepare environment (Windows 2012R2) to serve SoFS on Storage Pool. At the beginning I would like to setup FailoverCluster witch SoFS service only on One node, and if everything will be...
View ArticleThe Recycle Bin is Corrupted
I have a 2-node SQL Server 2012 failover cluster. When connected to the cluster virtual server via remote desktop, and whenever I initiate a failover to the other node, my RDP session gets...
View ArticleBenefits of Clustered File Server vs Clustered VM
Hi,I'm running a 3 node Hyper-V Cluster with around 12 VM's. I'm looking at building a new file server and am having trouble understanding what benefits creating a clustered file server has vs creating...
View ArticleCSV cache monitoring problem
Hello, I have two Hyper-v servers as cluster nodes with enabled cluster shared volume cache and i try to monitor the cache from third server which is not a cluster node as i cannot start perfmon in...
View ArticleCSV Cluster Volumes - Repeat Disk Numbers
Hi,I'm having an issue where the same Disk Number is being assigned to multiple CSV Volumes? If i add a new volume normally it would append to the next number BUT i have 6 particular volumes that are...
View ArticleFailed to write data to VHD
I have an 8 blade cluster running Windows 2008R2 SP1. We are running about 350 virtual Windows 7 workstations that users RDP into via Wyse Win7e thin clients. The servers each are running dual 12...
View ArticleDTC Error
Hi Stephen, I have prestaged the MSDTC names in AD and are in disabled state but when i try to create DTC it throwing error. '200-msdtc' already in use in Active Directory? Can you help me resolve...
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MAC address for the Microsoft Cluster Virtual Adapter
Hi Experts,Below is the IP config out of a cluster node . There are 2 active MAC address on this server one used by Client connections NIC and one used by Backup NIC ( Netabackup ) . The cluster...
View Article1 - 2 or 3 Clusters?
Greetings,I have a question about sizing or the shape of my cluster. I would appreciate some best practice and real life input.General layout of equipment:Server 2012 R2 Data Center12 HP DL 380 Gen 9...
View ArticleAccess Denied to Existing NLB Cluster
Hello,If I posted this in the wrong place, I am sorry, please let me know!OK, so I have 6 Windows Server 2008 R2 terminal servers in an NLB cluster. The cluster was set up using a domain admin account...
View ArticleStuck with Redirected Access?
I'm running a HyperV Cluster on 2012 R2. Each node is connected to the "network" with 2 nics (LACP) and to the ISCSINetwork with 4 nics, using MPIO. (usually) For one node, the 4-nic-card just died,...
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Keep Storage Pool "off the cluster"?
Hello,I'm running a hypervcluster with 2 nodes and 3 external NAS for ISCSI-Storage. Each node itself has a couple of Disks, which I want to "dedicate" to backups of the vms. (So each node will make...
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