Windows 2008 R2 SP1 Exchange DAG event 1196 and 1579 Bad DNS Key
Hi,I'm running an Exchange 2010 SP1 DAG on Windows 2008 R2 SP1. We are using an INFOBLOX appliance for DNS resolution.DNS resolution is working and SRV records are created.On one of the two...
View ArticleError: The computer is joined to cluster when creating the Cluster
Hello Guys, I have created a cluster to configure Hyper-V for 2 Nods, everything was greate and works perfectly, next day the storage hang and the cluster didn't work any more, I have destroyed the...
View ArticleCluster Network Configuration
I have 3 DL385 servers with 4 10G Nic's in a server 2012 Cluster for Hyper-VI have it setup with 2 teams, Access and Data teams. The access team is on a routable vlan that all the other vlans can...
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Inactive node's NTBACKUP not running pointing to error in VSS
HiIn a cluster environment , one node which is INACTIVE (Windows Server 2003 Ent.64 bit), while executing the NTBACKUP command the following errors occur and unable to perform the backupAny help is...
View ArticleCSV Best Practices
IOPS are the deciding factor when it comes to single CSV or multiple CSV.....if IOPS required by VMs hosted on the CSV are enough then one CSV is good enough and easy to manage.....and if the workload...
View Articlefailover cluster wmi provider detected an invalid character
We are getting this recurring error in our two node hyper-v cluster:ID: 6237 Source: FailoverClustering-WMIProviderLogs anywhere from 1- 15 of these errors every half hour. We are running on Server...
View ArticleClustered 2-node iSCSI target server
I'm having some problems getting this running. I've got two IBM blades, both of which have the Cluster and iSCSI target roles installed. I have created two virtual disks on the first blade for iSCSI...
View ArticleMultiple Clusters in Private Cloud
Dear All.....What would be desirable/recommended in a Private Cloud setup.....To have a single cluster with N number of nodes with N number of CSV.....OR Multiple Clusters with limited number of nodes...
View ArticleCluster Drive letter missing after failover
Hi Everyone,I have a 2 node file cluster on windows server 2008 R2 SP1, was well working before. However since few days its giving me trouble. Node1=FS01Node2=FS02when ever there is a failover from...
View Articleserver 2012 clustering
I have a 2 node cluster and need to see if I set it up correctly:server 2012---------------------------------------------------server1 nic1 IP 10.10.1.10 10gb publicserver1 nic2 IP 10.10.1.20 10gb...
View ArticleWindows 2012 Failover Cluster Manager does not correctly reflect expanded...
Hello, I have a Failover Cluster setup comprising of 5 Windows 2012 nodes. All my Virtual machines are created on CSV volumes. I recently had to expand the size of a CSV volume from the SAN side....
View ArticleMaximum LUNS in Hyper-V 2012 Cluster
Hi,In Hyper-V 2008 R2, I was told that "Windows does not have a great track record managing many LUNs. From experience we see scale issues anywhere at 150 LUNs and above."I was also told "MSFT is...
View ArticleWindows failover cluster Ready for SAP ERP
Hi, we have configured windows failover cluster 2008 r2 sp2 2 node on physical environment we have not used any virtual environment i.e hyper - v, vmware ..... Now i need two virtual ip's for...
View ArticleHow to create a Shared Drive (CSV) in Hyper - V 2012
Hi,I pretty new with the Hyper - V (Windows Server 2012 Data Centre) and all my VM's are hosted in Hyper - V.My Cluster VM's are also on the same Hyper - VI want to configure a failover cluster setup,...
View ArticleMSCluster_DiskPartition returns "empty" VolumeGuid for disks in maintenance mode
Hi, For my application it is crucial to know volume GUID of the cluster volume. However when I turn on maintenance mode for the disk WMI's MSCluster_DiskPartition reports empty (all zeros) GUID for...
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...
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SIMPLE QUESTION: HOW TO MIGRATE FROM WINDOWS 2008 R2 + SQL 2012 FAILOVER...
Hello,We have 2-node Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition failover cluster with Fibre shared storage (SAN) running SQL Server 2012 SP1. Below is current configuration - very simple and classic, I would...
View ArticleHyper-V Cluster Network failed
Hello,I need some help on this one. I have a 2008 R2 Hyper-V cluster with 4 server nodes. On one of the nodes iSCSI network keeps failing, the error shows in the failover cluster manager:Cluster...
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Extending CSV Volume from a wrong current node
Hello there,I have just extended one of the CSV Volumes in my Failover Clustering environment from a wrong node owner. Although in the Failover Clustering console the total capacity of the extended...
View ArticleAn error occured while starting the New Virtual Machine Wizard - Server 2012...
Full error (wall of) text:Unable to cast COM object of type 'System._ComObject' to interface type 'System.Management.IWbemServices'. This operation failed because the QueryInterface call on the COM...
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