DTC 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...
View ArticleProvider Load Failure
HI all, My setup5 nodesHyper-v ClusterWhen i try to open Fail-over Cluster Manager on any of the nodes i get the error "Provider Load Failure". The Hyper-V Management Console opens but cluster manager...
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 ArticleLicencing Windows Server 2012 R2 in a HA Cluster
Let’s say I have a cluster with 4 nodes (2 CPU per node) running a couple of Linux machines (30+) and want to licence this Cluster also for Windows Server 2012 R2 systems. Since I would only use around...
View ArticleRe-Name the Cluster Name on Windows 2012 server
Hello, I am not able to Re-Name the Cluster Name on the newly built server getting the blow errorCluster network name resource 'Cluster Name' encountered an error enabling the network name on this...
View ArticleTrouble Failover Cluster- SQL Server, Availability Group DNS Name
Hi everyone,Im having problems trying to do a failover cluster with SQL Server for High Availability.The nodes are configured with the Availability Group Listeners with two ip adresses.The name for the...
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Network Load Balancing IP addresses are not pinging
Hello,I am testing NLB in a lab environment. My environment topology along with IP addresses are provided below. The environment is set up in a VMWARE 5.5 Environment.The NLB is set up with all default...
View ArticleGuest VM simultaneous failover
Hi,It is a requirement within our environment for certain guest VM's to always be located on the same node of a cluster as each other, so if one is migrated off, the other moves with it. Essentially...
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 ArticlePermission issues with HyperV over Scaled out File Server
Hello All, I have two major issues with trying to run HyperV over Scaled out File Server (SOFS), I would really appreciate it if anyone can help out on this. The SetupNodes: HYPERV1, HYPERV2, HYPERV3,...
View ArticleIssue With Server 2012 R2 Clustered File Share randomly deleting/locking files
I have a Server 2012 R2 2 node cluster with a ~76 TB File share (X:) and a ~10TB File share (Y:) each of these runs on opposing nodes, they have been in production about 18 months.Starting about 3...
View ArticleHyper-V Failover cluster Validation report fails on Hyper-V Replica tasks
HiMy validation report passes all tests, except it keeps failing on Hyper-V Replica tasks. This is an existing cluster I want to validate before adding additional nodes.The tests that fail areValidate...
View ArticleHyper V FailOver Cluster error
Hello! I have a Cluster Hyper V solution with two Hosts. On host 1, I have five VMs. When I use live migration or quick migration from VMs to host 2, when it comes to the second VM, I get a blue...
View ArticleAdd new heartbeat network for existing Windows Cluster
Hi, im running a 2012 Windows Cluster (running SQL 2012 Always On cluster).I discovered that there is an error in the NIC added on one of the nodes, and I need to replace the existing private cluster...
View ArticleGuest VM simultaneous failover
Hi,It is a requirement within our environment for certain guest VM's to always be located on the same node of a cluster as each other, so if one is migrated off, the other moves with it. Essentially...
View ArticleCluster creation failing - timing - cant figure out why. maybe because of...
I'm really struggling with this one and am hoping someone may be able to assist or point me in the right direction.I am trying to build a three node cluster that will be used for a later SQL...
View ArticleCluster IP and heartbeat IP availability
HiWe are preparing HV cluster nodes. As of now 2 NICs are configured, one with default gateway and using for management and server is registered in AD integrated DNS using this IP, second NIC is...
View ArticleTask scheduler on NLB cluster
Hi,we are setting up two Windows Server 2012 R2 servers on NLB clusters for iis (asp.net) sites. We need to run some console apps by using task scheduler. This was easy when we had only one server....
View Articlemigration of 2008R2 cluster to 2012 R2 - New hardware
friends i have a 2 node cluster running on windows 2008 R2. connected via a SAN over iSCSI.i want to migrate to 2012 r2 as my current AD is very much messed up i dont want to migrate in the same domain...
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