Service and Application clustering
I'm old school - cluster to me means a common name, common IP address, and common disk - with common resourcesAfter cluster verification, and cluster creation, attempts to configure an Service/...
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 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...
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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...
View ArticleShadow Copy trigger failover node on Windows 2008 SP2
Environment:1. 3 server which is 3 nodes2. 1 SAN storage , setup 3 Volume (Quorum, DATA, Shadow copy storage)3. 3 Disk add to Cluster system: Quorum (drive Q), DATA (drive D), Shadow copy storage...
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Hyper-V cluster with team links to CISCO 500GX stack does not work with...
We are currently having a problem with our high availability environment whereby the cluster loses quorum and all the VMs reboot when the CISCO master is power cycled. The relevant components in 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 Articleconnect to shared folder from Windows cluster
I have a windows server 2012 R2 Cluster behind Firewall and I want to connect to a Shared Folder on an external server. I will need to allow port 139 and 445 on the firewall but I don't know which ip...
View Articlenew-cluster: name "xyz" is already in use in active directory =events 4631 4657
I am stuck while creating just another 2012 R2 FailoverCluster.The clustertest-report ist 100% fine, no errors no warnings, but every time I try to create the cluster I do get the error:"The name "XYZ"...
View ArticleVM HA during core switch reboot
Hi,12 Node Cluster 2012 R2 Hyper-V Cluster Blade servers across multiple blade enclosures Each blade enclosure has 2 network switches (Dell IOA) connected to one core switch in a LACP LAG 2 core...
View Article(0x0000009E) netft.sys is the cause for the bugchk blue screen on the server...
Hi we have the server getting rebooted by a bugchk error for netft.sys(0x0000009E) Please let me know if we have any fix for this issue. i am not sure wht is causing the issue on the server the server...
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 ArticleSOFS won't failover on other node
Hi IT folks,Just want to seek your help regarding my SOFS setup on my lab. I have setup 2 node cluster, and everything seems to work. On my SOFS file share, I put a video file and plays it somewhere on...
View Articlecluster-aware updating - optional updates
Cluster-aware updating is running OK on windows server 2012 except that the optional updates are not being installed. In the configuration for cluster-aware updating I have "give me recommended...
View ArticleHyper V Hosts - Local Storage
So, i have 3*2TB HDDs in every node of my HV Cluster (Server 2012 R2). These are mostly unused atm.But i would like to utilize them to be available in the cluster, for example as a volume where i can...
View ArticleIssue with Cluster IP assigned by DHCP
Hi All,When I try to create a cluster from 2 nodes with windows 2012 R2 (which have a DHCP configured) the cluster IP assigns one of the nodes IP and fails to become online.I'm getting the 1049 event...
View ArticleHyper-V Replica Storage for Reverse Replication
HiA short summary:I'm running a 2 node Hyper-V Failover Cluster based on Windows Server 2012 R2. I have our VMs stored at 4 different CSVs. This setup has already been running fine for a few years.At...
View Article(0x0000009E) netft.sys is the cause for the bugchk blue screen on the server...
Hi we have the server getting rebooted by a bugchk error for netft.sys(0x0000009E) Please let me know if we have any fix for this issue. i am not sure wht is causing the issue on the server the server...
View ArticleCreating Folder Shares in a CAFS environment
I am building an extensive Continuously Available File Server environment. I am setting up users Home directory's in this location. I share the folder with permissions to the user and domain admin...
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