Storage Spaces Direct is the most unreliable, non highly-available...
Storage Spaces Direct is the most unreliable, non highly-available high-availability solution Microsoft have ever released! We purchased a fully validated S2D solution from Dell and in two years since...
View ArticleWindows 2016 DataCentre : Cannot Create Storage Replica for stretch cluster...
I have 4 virtual machines running Windows 2016 with failover clustering.These are spread across 2 data centers (2 VMs in each data center).Each pair of VMs has 2 shared 'vhd sets' for Log and Replica...
View ArticleClustering windows server 2016 Data Center
Hello,I have been asked to Cluster 2 HP Proliant Servers 380 Gen 10.On both servers Raid 1 (2 first Disk) and Raid 5 (three last disk ) have been configured.I have already installed windows server...
View ArticleFirewall block traffic of heart beat
I want to do some test in cluster to lost heartbeat, I want to use windows firewall to perform this .what port I should block ?I tried block UDP and TCP 3343, but seems still not working .
View ArticleGuys caw we get the RegKey back for the passing WSSD on the windows server...
as per the official Microsoft position on windows server 2019 Data Centre "...When can I deploy Storage Spaces Direct in Windows Server 2019 into production? Microsoft recommends deploying Storage...
View ArticleHow can we move the Quorum Disk from Node1 to Node2 ? - Windows 2012 R2 -...
Hello,We have created a cluster with 2 Nodes and created a role for File share. There are totally 3 Disks in the cluster, among three we have allocated 1 disk as Quorum Disk.When Node1 is powered off,...
View Articlewindows 2019 s2d cluster failed to start event id 1809
Hi I have lab with insider windows 2019 cluster which I inplace upgraded to rtm version of 2019 server and cluster is shutdown after while and event id 1809 is listed This node has been joined to a...
View ArticleS2D in a lab - questions about node failure.....
Set up a 2 node S2D cluster with nested Hyper-V and was doing a few tests. Live and quick migration work fine, but if I 'pull the power' on one of the S2D nodes (to simulate a node failure), the...
View ArticleSOFS and connections
HeyI would like to create an active/active file server for User Profile Disks (vhdx)I have create a SOFS cluster (Virtual machines + shared disk + CSV).To my understandig the SOFS setup still uses one...
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Failover Cluster Manager mmc and 4K display issue
Running Win 10 Enterprise v1703 with RSAT installed, when launching the Failover Cluster Manager mmc the right pane is scaled down and superimposed across the middle of the window (see image). Does...
View Articlewindows 2016 cluster QuarantineThreshold
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/clustering/2015/06/03/virtual-machine-compute-resiliency-in-windows-server-2016/QuarantineThreshold means Number of failures before a node is Quarantined. I have some...
View ArticleAn error pccurred while creating the cluster. Could not determine Management...
I am receiving the error in the subject when i try to create a cluster. The two nodes of the cluster are WS2016 Core. The Validation Wizard doesn't show any Error or Warning. The two servers are set-up...
View ArticleIssue with adding a file share witness
Hi,I've a 2 SQL Servers clustered but no file share witness has been added to them, so I'm trying to add a file share witness now and I got the following error:Configure Cluster Quorum SettingsWitness...
View ArticleWindows 2012 R2 crashes during backup - Bug Check code 0x00000133
Hi,We have an HP DL580G7 server, OS Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter Core with Hyper-V that is crashing repeatedly due to Bug Check code 0x00000133 . The error most occurs during backup. The server...
View ArticleUnderstand Clustering
Hello Team,Could you please help me with Clustering articles. I have seen other article of Ask DS , can you please suggest which one to start off so that I could work and troubleshoot the issue ?Thanks..
View Articleadd node to 2016 cluster no longer has validation option
using RSAT on a 2016 GUI server to remotely administer a 2016 cluster (still running v8) to add the last 2016 node to it before upgrading to v9.going through the add node wizard in failover cluster...
View ArticleSOFS and load balancing
HeyJust create a Cluster running Scale-Out Fileserver.I need to have an active/active system due to many connection.When looking into open files - it seems users only connect to one server in the...
View Article2016 to 2008 R2 cluster
Can I add a Windows Server 2016 node to a Windows Server 2008 R2 cluster?Reza Negarestani
View ArticleClustering between a physical server DASD and a VM
Scenario : Physical Server (PS1) with DASD : WIndows 2012 R2 (Multiple terabytes of data on multiple partitions/drives)Virtual Server 1 (VS1): Windows 2016 (target server Day 1)Virtual Server 2 (VS2):...
View ArticleCannot add cluster disk on windows 2012
I have 2 servers connected to a shared storage array using Fibre Channel. Currently there are 2 luns on the storage device. From the Failover Cluster Manager, when I select “Add Disk” from Storage –...
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