Event 1196 every 15 minutes
I have a 2 node cluster running Windows Server 2012. I've recently noticed that in the Cluster Events log on either node, that every 15 minutes there is an 1196 error posted.There is an A record in DNS...
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I have a Windows Server 2012 cluster with 2 servers, a witness disk, and a storage disk. The quorum is set to Node majority but the recommended setting is Node and Disk majority. This can't be set...
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Hello,I have a two node Windows Server 2012 STN Cluster with a few SQL instances installed inside it. Recently in my security event log I see these errors on both nodes:An attempt was made to reset an...
View ArticlePerformance Monitor fails to connect to SQL Network Name after in-place SQL...
We recently performed an in-place SQL upgrade on a Windows Server 2008 R2 failover cluster, going from SQL 2005 SP4 to SQL 2008 R2 SP1. The upgrade process went smoothly, although afterwards we could...
View ArticleFailover cluster not cleanly shutting down service
I've got a two node 2008 R2 failover cluster. I have a single service being managed by it that I configured just as a generic service. The failover works perfectly when the service is stopped, or...
View ArticleWindows server 2012 hangs when accessing a Cluster Shared Volume
Hi,We have 2 windows server 2012 Datacenter member of windows cluster, servers are running hyper-v. the 2 nodes hang once we try to access CSV volume (c:\clusterstorage\volume1) when i tried to do live...
View ArticleCluster network name resource error 1196
I have a two-node Hyper-V 2012 Core Server cluster. Initially, the cluster was working fine and I was able to do live migrations with no problem. I first realized that something had gone wrong when I...
View ArticleMultinode Failover Cluster on Windows 2012 Server validation test taking lot...
Dear All,We are facing problem of Huge time takes for cluster validation test on IBM Blade Server with Storage. The details are given below. Escalated with IBM OEM, confirmed that "there is no hardware...
View ArticleServer 2012 - CSV & RAID Advice
Ok, Dell VRTX server with 2 blades. Primary storage will be 10 x 600Gb 10k SAS drives.Planning on running Hyper-V cluster to host primary file server, print server, SQL, Sharepoint etc for mid sized...
View ArticleServer 2012 - Clustering CSV Config advice
We have a Dell VHDX Server with 2 server blades (This has shared storage built in)I've installed Server 2012 Datacentre on both servers, configured a cluster (My first!)I have a number of HDD's in the...
View ArticleVirtual Machine Network Health not working
Server 2012 R2 is supposed to have a feature which detects when the public LAN connection used to get into the VM's becomes unavailable, this is supposed to kick in around 60 seconds after it being...
View ArticleLinux NFS share to Windows 2008 R2 cluster as a resource
Hello,I would like to share a directory on RHEL 5 Linux server with Windows 2008 R2 server cluster having 2 nodes via NFS read only access to make it as a cluster resource to be accessible by cluster...
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Hyper-V Failover Cluster - Inconsistent Network Availability
We've got a Small cluster with, 7 hosts and a dozen or two VM's. For some reason i'm getting inconsistent availability with the Cluster networks. The host seem to function fine on there own but...
View ArticleClustering in Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1- Running Applications
We have 6 Servers each Having .net based applications and SQL 2008 R2 Databases.We want to make all these applications High Available.We have about 6 Free Servers; so my questions are:1- Can we make...
View ArticleCannot Bring Cluster Name Online
I have a 2-node Windows 2008 cluster that has been working fine for over a year. Recently, we moved the resources from the one node to the other and everything failed. We are able to bring up all of...
View ArticleQuestion about cluster node majority voting
We've been having problems with a DB instance crashing regularly. This weekend when it crashed, it seems to have taken the node it was on with it, or this was a separate incident...Right now I have 3...
View ArticleWindow Server 2008 R2 Active Directory and Terminal Services Clustering
Dear All,We are Window server 2008 Enterprise R2 with - Active Direcotry - TerminalmServices (thin client solution) - DHCP and DNS ServerCurrently we are aiming to implement for cluster for the server...
View Article2012R2 Cluster "Protected Network" not working / no failover
hi,I have two 2012R2 hosts running in a cluster. Hardware is exactly the same. I created a Virtual Network on both Hyper-V managers. Live migration is correctly working.However i was testing one of the...
View ArticleCAS NLB issue
Dear All, Exchange details: Exchange 2010 SP1 2x CAS/HT servers (VMware) 2x MBX servers (VMware) Both CAS servers are load balanced by NLB using multicast. Cas array address is 10.1.62.41 Cas Server 1...
View ArticleSome clients only access files through admin shares on 2008r2 cluster
Hi guys,This is throwing me off and need some help. We have a 2008R2 File Server cluster. It works great for all of our windows clients. 95% of our scanners work, but some just will not work...
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