Cluster dies when 3rd node is on
Hi,At work we have 3 servers within a cluster (Windows Server 2012 R2). On Monday the cluster failed and started to live migrate boxes to servers which were rebooting. We had a major site outage, where...
View ArticleHow to schedule Cluster logs to be generated for Microsoft Failover Clusters...
Hi, As per my understanding we always have to generate Cluster logs manually on the cluster nodes to get these generated.Is there any way we can schedule Cluster Logs to be generated every time so that...
View ArticleThe file cannot be opened because it is in the process of being deleted
Hi,I'm cleaning up a Hyper-V Cluster WS2012R2. There is only 1 node the cluster for the moment. All VMs have been moved to another cluster already except for 2. When I try to delete them I get the...
View ArticleConnection Broker session information
HelloI was wondering if it was possible to view the active sessions or monitor the session information of the Connection Broker. The Connection Broker decides on the server on which the client can...
View ArticleHyper-V Cluster with Storage Server AH
Hello Everyone, I have a question about Clustering&Storage.I have two servers and what I wanted to do is: -A cluster of 2 nodes-The Storage directly on the Nodes-The storage AHI don't want a third...
View ArticleProper steps to fail over to another host in a cluster
Hello,Pardon my ignorance. What is the proper steps to force a fail over to the standby host in a cluster with two nodes?My secondary host is the currently the active host for custer name. I would...
View ArticleBuild a SQL 2008 R2 Failover clustering
Hi,Am looking for a 2 node active passive SQL server clustering for testing purposeI believe that for building a cluster we need a AD, DNS and DHCP and shared disk ..I have searched in Internet and as...
View ArticleFailed VM in Failover Cluster Manager
We have a problem that seems to be caused by 3 VMs in our cluster that have failed. The cluster is a server 2012 R2 cluster.The VMs are not in Hyper-V anymore, but they still appear in the Failover...
View ArticleCluster Networking - Minimal configuration
I am looking for the best way to configure our 3 node Hyper-V cluster. The cluster nodes have 2x 1Gbit NICs and 2x 10Gbit nics. The 2 10Gbit nics are conifgured for iSCSI, so cluster validation warns...
View ArticleGeneric Application fail-over is restarting
I have setup a two node cluster on 2012. I am trying to use the generic application to fail fail over and to pick up where it left off i.e. Move what is in memory to the fail over server. I can not get...
View ArticleNetwork Name Resource Availability - failover cluster error 1196
Hello,We're getting this error in our even logs of our four node failover cluster, we tried deleting Host A record in DNS management, that did nothing.Failover cluster event: 1196"Cluster network name...
View ArticleValidating Windows 2012 R2 Cluster Fail
Dear Reader,I am Trying to build a Windows 2012 DC R2 Cluster.I am having 2 AD Servers in Subnet else than the Subnet where I am trying to build the cluster, there is Firewall Between those 2...
View ArticleClustered role 'Availability Role' has exceeded its failover threshold
I am getting this alert on SQL 2012 R2 SP1. So please kindly tell me the solution of the below given alert on windows failover clustering .Clustered role 'Availability Role' has exceeded its failover...
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CAU: The plug-in argument HotfixRootFolderPath has invalid value
I am trying to apply a hotfix using CAU and have configured the self-updating options. When I come to preview the update for the cluster and select Microsoft.Hotfixplugin as the plugin, I get the...
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Persistent Reservation not present on Test Disk 0 from node......
Hi all,I did a research and find many similar issue in this forum. However, the issue persist.There is a Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V Failover Cluster in my lab, with HP P2000 storage with Fiber...
View ArticleNetwork Configuration Problems
Hi,I am really, really struggling to get networking correct on a Hyper-V cluster. The public LAN (Management and virtual machine network) is fine. This is purely focusing on the network adapters...
View ArticleMicrosoft DSM versions
I have a 2 node 2012 r2 cluster and am trying to add another 2012 r2 serverI fully pathced the new server and when adding a node it runs validation which fails on the dsm qfe versionsthe 2 original...
View ArticleCluster Windows 2012 in different subnet
HiI prepare to configure 4 windows 2012 in a cluster. All windows 2012 have 2 network card (1 = DATA and 1 = Heartbeat)It's possible to configure:- All 4 servers network card in same VLAN for "DATA"...
View ArticleHyper-v Live Migration not completing when using VM with large RAM
hi,i have a two node server 2012 R2 cluster hyper-v which uses 100GB CSV, and 128GB RAM across 2 physical CPU's (approx 7.1GB used when the VM is not booted), and 1 VM running windows 7 which has 64GB...
View ArticleWindows 2012 FSW
HiI prepare to configure 5 windows 2012 in cluster with a File Share Withness. My question: It's possible to configure a share (for a file share withness) on one of my servers Windows 2012?If Yes, do...
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