Affordable iSCSI or JBOD solutions for personal lab environment
I am looking for an affordable solution for my personal lab that will enable me to play with Hyper-V Failover Clusters. I have looked at iSCSI and JBOD solutions but they were all way out of my price...
View ArticleCSV in redirected access on one node...
Hi,We have 3 node cluster and 3 CSV. Now I am able to move the CSV to other 2 nodes and they are coming online without any problem. On 1 specific node all the CSV's will always come online in redirect...
View ArticleCluster IP Address configuration
Hello,I have just configure Two Nodes windows Server 2012 Failover clustering.First Host IP Address : 192.168.100.1Second Host IP Address : 192.168.100.2Cluster IP Address : 192.168.100.210In normal...
View ArticleDynamic storage resource does not work as expected in windows 2012 failover...
Hi All,I have registered a new storage class resource using "Add-ClusterResourceType" PS cmdlets for windows server 2012 failover cluster. After creating a new Role and adding that resource through...
View ArticleHow to Change Share Name of drive in cluster available storage disk
Hi, Can anyone tell me about the sharename changing in a Cluster available storageplease see the scenario i did Created 2 Win2k8 R2 Srv and enabled cluster named CLUTEST its IP is 10.10.0.250 ( Cluster...
View ArticleSteps for moving Server 2008 witness disk to new LUN?
I've recently set up a new SAN and I would like to start moving my existing cluster volumes over to the new SAN. I'm assuming I should start with the witness disk? Can anyone tell me the correct...
View Articlewindows cluster problem :Error in validation. The Argument is null or empty...
Windows 2008 Cluster Error: Error in validation. The Argument is null or empty String Prameter name.the domain name is mscs.comtwo node clusterthe OS is windows server 2008 R2 enterprise 7600this error...
View ArticleChange Server 2003 NLB cluster IP
Hi All,We have 2003 NLB cluster and I am trying to change cluster IP using a script.I cannot use PowerShell cmd lets as 2003 NLB does not support this.I is possible to change cluster IP , multicast IP...
View ArticleVMs Fail Randomly on 2012 Cluster
Our 2-node Server 2012 Hyper-V cluster is having an issue where VMs seem to randomly fail for no apparent reason. We are using Dell R900s with a MD3200i SAN and we have separate networks for iSCSI and...
View ArticleSATA Drives in a Failover Cluster
I have shared storage that is part SAS and part SATA. Will this work in a Failover cluster?Michael T. Glenn
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SQL 2012 Availability Group add nodes
Hi,I have setup SQL Server 2012 Availability Group with 1 Node. Issue is that Node Disk is being showed in Disk resource. When i try to add second node then Disk from second node remove from ServerB...
View ArticleWNLB issues
Hello Everyone,I have created WNLB for my two CAS servers. The servers are running on a different subnet (172.16.4.*) while clients are on subnets (172.16.16.*;172.16.20.*;172.16.21.* and so on). The...
View Articleevent 1196 dns bad key when registering CNO
I am getting these errors when registering Cluster Name on Windows Server 2012. I followed advice described in other post: deleted CNO dns record, created CNO dns record manually ("Allow any...
View ArticleHyper-V Cluster, Fiber connections to SAN Oddity
I have a three node cluster connected to a SAN via Fiber Channel. Server 2012. I configured everything and verified the cluster setup etc. Created a test VM, tested live migrations. All good. Today I...
View ArticleDirect Access 2012 fails after installing NLB
I have installed Direct Access 2012 on vmware virtual machine and when using only one server without NLB everything works fine.There are two network interfaces, external and internal. External with two...
View ArticleQuick way to add cluster shared volumes to possible owners of new node?
I recently added a new node to a 2 node failover cluster that is running hyper-v. I noticed when trying to do a live migration that prexsiting disks are not showing the new node as a possible owner. I...
View ArticleThe connection could not be completed because remote computer was not the one...
We have a new windows 2012 clustered server which was built and named the same as a previous 2008 R2 cluster. It is not a terminal server... just a SQL 2012 Server. When I try to RDP to it, I get a...
View Article2003 cluster: add node wizard reports wrong IP info
Hello all,I am trying to add a 4th node to a 2003 cluster. When I run the add node wizard the summary shows the public and private IP addresses for an existing node in the cluster (the one that is...
View ArticleUnknown Issue with 2012 Failover Cluster
HelloI have 2 Hosts , HP Proliant DL580 G7 with Server windows server 2012 Installed and updated with the last windows updates and drivers and hardware firmware. And the Hyper-v Role installed.With FC...
View Article2012 Hyper-V cluster Validation Failure with NIC Team
I'm setting up a 2 node Windows Server Hyper-V 2012 cluster, I have 3 teams (each team is 2 physical NICs), Team 1 for Mgmt OS (VLAN 1), Team 2 (trunked) for LiveMotion (VLAN 2), CSV (VLAN 3),...
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