moving active node resources to the inactive node
We have a 2 node , majority disk, Windows 2008R2 failover cluster. The active node is currently showing all resources and services on node A. Node B is the inactive node. we are about to perform...
View ArticleRandom Reboots
Hello, I am experiencing random reboots on random servers during the week at random time... I did some research and I am suspecting that the "automatic recovery for application health monitoring" is...
View ArticleCannot clear "Current read-only" on pass through disk
This is not the end of the world, but it's very annoying so I'm hoping somebody can explain what's going on or perhaps suggest some additional troubleshooting.Here's the scenario: Server 2012 Core VM...
View ArticleCluster Updating Readiness Results
I am configuring Cluster-Aware Updating on a 5-node cluster. At this time I'm not enabling Self-Updating mode. Instead I'm going to use Remote-Updating mode. In the Cluster Aware Updating console I ran...
View ArticleSQL 2012 std Cluster/ W2012R2 on ESXi 5.1
As I was reading the posts it appear that ESXi 5.1 does support MSCS on W2012 server.We are trying to setup a SQL 212 cluster (not always on bc we don't have Enterprise license) on two vm hosts running...
View ArticleUnable to create a new cluster on our domain
Hi there,I am having difficulties creating a new server 2012 R2 failover cluster in our domain. We have a working 2008 R2 cluster that has been running fine for years now.I have tried on different...
View Article2 node failover cluster power down
I have a 2node failover cluster. When I power down a node that has the SQL server instance and resources, all the resources and service failover to the other node. When I see that all the resources...
View ArticleSan failover, disk timeout, iscsi and mpio
HiI am testing san controller failover. It takes around 2 mins for the second controller to come online after the first has failed.There are some registry settings that can be configured to increase...
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Extreamly Slow TCP connection with IP of named instance on SQL Cluster
Hi,We experience some strange problem with our SQL Cluster. First I can't connect to the SQL Instance using SSMS.Using wireshark showing a lot of TCP Retransmission. I using iperf to test the speed,...
View ArticleGetting Error: cluster ip address not added to tcpip properties
I have 2 2008 R2 physical servers on the same subnet and they have been using NLB for the past 1.5 years. We had a firewall issue and I took one of the servers out of the cluster to do testing, while...
View Articleserver 2012 failover cluster has no disks
~I have created a 2 node cluster with server 2012 R2, each node has a 100 Gb disk but when i add this to the cluster it cant bring them online. the windows server is are located on a VM ware server. At...
View ArticleSQL instance wont come online after failover
the disks show offline and the server: file server if i try to get it online it says it took more than usual and still will fail
View ArticleFailed to connect to the quorum resource - Cluster migration wizard
Hi,following scenario - Migrating resources from Win2003 Cluster to Win2008 Cluster using Cluster Migration Wizard. Migrators user account added to Administrators group on both Win2003 nodes. Did the...
View ArticleNot able to control TCP/IP services through NLB of windows server 2008 R2
Hi,I am not able to stop/ break the TCP/IP connection, even after stopped the cluster node configured in NLB.Also able to see the TCP/IP connection while doing netstat though command prompt
View ArticlePost Update positioning of Roles (VMs)
Currently I have a Windows 2012 R2 Hyper-V Failover cluster.When the cluster aware updating kicks in, everything works fine, except when both nodes have completed their updates, my vms are all situated...
View ArticleNode failed to join the cluster because it ould not send and receive failure...
One of my customers has a Windows Server 2008 R2 cluster for an Exchange 2010 Mailbox Database Availability Group. Lately, they've been having problems with one of their nodes (the one node that is on...
View ArticleDHCP Failover strategy
Hi. I would like to configure a DCHP server failover on Windows 7.On a part I have a windows 2008 R2 server which currently leases adresses. I recently had a crash of this server.In order to insure...
View ArticleChange FC Group IP Address
I have a 3 node failover cluster that I think needs an IP address change because the current cluster IP address is on my Node Management network.Here is my network config:FC Internal...
View Articlecan make a DHCP VM in cluster role
hi i have created fail over cluster with windows server 2012i have a DHCP vm when i choose roles>> dhcp role to configure that DHCP vm it says no dhcp server found!!so my question is isnt it...
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...
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