Creating the DHCP failover relation from remote server
Hi I am trying to establish the failover relation ship between two windows servers (w1 and w2 which are 2012 version) with power shell commands like Add-DhcpServerv4Failover -ComputerName...
View ArticleClustering with Exchange 2007
HiWe have an exchange 2007 server running on windows 2008 R2. A spare server recently became available and I have been asked to see if its possible to create a fail over cluster with our existing...
View ArticleFailover cluster very slow
Hi everyone,I took over admin tasks after one of admins left. He was responsible for failover cluster but I heard that users complained a lot. Main issue is that is very very slow. I logged in and...
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File Cluster 2016 - Smb Share Permissions Update problem
Hi all,I have file cluster setup on Windows Server 2016 environment with 4 nodes. Everything worked fine until now. I am not able to change share permission on one of the roles on all shared folders....
View ArticleSetting up Generic Services role on 2016
I'm a little confused on getting the generic services role setup on a failover cluster. I currently have a two node cluster configured. On each node, I have software that is not cluster aware but has...
View ArticleData Migration
Hi,Server connected with local hard disks which has data about 5 TB. No SAN Attached. We need to move the data to different location. We cant ship the server. Dont want to do via ROBOCOPY. Please let...
View Article2 Node Cluster with local storage
I am not a server expert here, but I am a general admin, so I'll try to keep up ;) I know that versions of this question have been asked, but the answers vary. Hypothetically, I have a server, with a...
View ArticleCLuster NIC Config for File Server
Building out a File server CLuster. 1.I currently have a NIC team to be used for file host 2. I have 2 sep NICs for ISCSI. Should i create another team and use that as cluster only and potentially just...
View ArticleDrain role Failed
We have three Node N-1, N-2, N-3. I drain role from N-2 and there10 VM's Moved out of 14. 4 VM are not moving getting error . Tried to move manually but the error same. Please assists All the Node in...
View ArticleHow to assign cluster backup IP in Failover cluster.?
Assign cluster backup IP in Failover cluster, along with cluster service.
View ArticleCannot create checkpoint when shared vhdset (.vhds) is used by VM - 'not part...
We are trying to deploy 'guest cluster' scenario over HyperV with shared disks set over SOFS. By design .vhds format should fully support backup feature.All machines (HyperV, guest, SOFS) are installed...
View ArticleCNO missing from ADUC and live migrations.
New to Failover clustering in Microsoft so this may be a fairly basic question. 2 nodes in a failover cluster running Windows server 2016 and for some reason the CNO is not in ADUC (don't know whether...
View ArticleChanging processor on existing Hyper V cluster 2012 R2
Dear All,We have an 2 node Hyper V cluster, both nodes has 8 cores X 2 Processors, we have planned to upgrade the processor to 12 cores X 2 .i just wanted to know will this have any issues with the...
View ArticleBuilding SOFS without DDNS
Please don't laugh, but yes, in the year 2019 I'm still running in an environment that does not have DDNS.Does anyone know of a reference that shows what DNS records must exist to create a SOFS on...
View ArticleS2D 2 node cluster
Hello,We have 2 node S2D cluster with windows server 2019. Between two nodes we have directly connected RDMA storage network (Cluster only) and client-facing network based on LACP teaming on each node...
View Article2-Node Stretch Cluster with Storage Replica?
I want to create a 2-node stretch cluster with Storage Replica. I was able to setup the replica but once I create the cluster it breaks the storage replica. I'm not sure if that is by design or not....
View Articleun-clustering hyperv nodes into standalone hosts
As the title suggests, I have a pair of server 2016 hosts which are currently operating as a 2-node failover cluster.Due to relocation of resources, I'm looking to break up the nodes into two...
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