Live migration stopped working
I have a two host cluster with 4 VMs. Hosts are 2008 R2, guests are 2x Windows 2x Linux.Last week one of my Windows servers would not live migrate, but the other 3 would.After troubleshooting, I...
View ArticleCreating a cloud based HA Environment
Hi All, This might sound a bit strange at first, but please bare with me. I want to make a full HA environment using nothing but "Cloud" so VM's servers. I need to be able to host a File Server, and...
View ArticleHIgh availability Guest Clustring and ISCSI Storage
I have 2 Hyper-V Insalled with 2 NICs Teamed and Created a VSWITCH.Now i am going to create Failover CLuster btwn VMs and Storage is connected thorugh iSCSI with VMs.Storage Has 2 COntroller.NIC...
View ArticleSQL Server 2012 failover cluster issue
Hello,I have setup SQL Server 2012 SE cluster environment on Windows Server 2008 R2 EE for our production. This is an Active Passive setup with just one instance. The environment is based of a Shared...
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Disk Management shows 'unallocated' and 'online' basic disk on a 4 node...
We've a 4 node Windows 2003 File Share Cluster. I logged onto one of the nodes and found there are a lot of SAN connected disks that show 'Unallocated' in Disk Management as below,Please could someone...
View ArticleProblem with MAC Spoofing and Virtual MACs
Hello, I am deploying Hyperv hosts that perform clustering using virtual MACs. I've enabled mac address spoofing, but as soon as I enable the clustering on the hosts and they try to use the virtual...
View Article2012R2 hyper-v failover cluster Cluster name object has no DNS record created
I’m trying to setup a 2-node ws2012R2 cluster using ws2008R2 AD(with DNS) but got an issue with DNS entry creation on AD. I also tried ws2012 AD but it's the same problem.The individual node DNS...
View ArticleClustered File Services Role on 2012 R1 Server - cannot create share - system...
when creating a share on the clustered file services role in windows 2012 R1 we see the following message:cannot connect to the S$ admin share to verify if folder 'S:\shares\data\server1\data' exists...
View ArticleCreate Cluster Failure. Hangs on Forming Cluster
Hi, I am trying to create a cluster between 2 nodes in Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard. Validation report is successful and but when creating the cluster. The process hangs during the forming of...
View ArticleDSM mismatch
I have a 2012 R2 cluster that was just rebuilt from a 2012 cluster. The storage is a Dell MD3200 SAN storage array. To set up access properly to the array multi-pathing has to be setup. MPIO was...
View ArticleOperationalizing 2012 R2 Time line
I have been asked to design, test, break, fix and document a Windows 2012 cluster as a standard. First my management wants a timeline / estimate of hours for this effort.I cam curious how much time...
View Articleversion of the integration
hiI am facing issue with determine the host integration service for linux virtual machine hosted on Hyper v failover cluster 2012 R2Unable to determine the version of the integration services on the...
View ArticleNot all servers receiving traffic in NLB environment
Hi,We have a web based application that is hosted on 2 web servers, 4 application servers and a SQL cluster.They are all on MS Server 2008 R2 and 64 bit boxes.The two web servers are receiving traffic...
View ArticleServer 2012 Failover cluster, Failed to access remote registry
I am trying to setup a 2 node failover cluster but am getting the error above when validating the nodes.I have verified that the remote registry service is running and remote administration is enabled....
View ArticleDNS Resolution stops once creating a cluster
DNS Resolution stops once cluster is created, server name resolution doesnt work when the servers are clustered.
View ArticleDFS Replication to a Cluster: Error 9009 / 9101 when moving to secondary node
I have successfully been using failover clusters for Highly Available Virtual Machines and also for SQL Server. I have just recently setup a new 2-node Server 2008 R2 Failover Cluster and have...
View ArticleLong MAC in dhcp for Cluster IP Address
Can someone explain why I see a really long Unique ID "4596124e6fca8d4486cbb71c02101f8e" in Microsoft DHCP for every fail over over cluster we have? Usually its a MAC in there but there is for our fail...
View ArticleServer 2012 R2 Cluster 0x9e coredump
We have one set of SQL Cluster and Hyper-V cluster, both are a two node failover cluster.Both of them constantly core dump 0x9e.We found that the symptoms is, one network card (Cluster Public) goes to...
View ArticlePrinting HA on Windows Server 2012
Hi all,I'm trying to configure HA for Printing with Windows Server 2012. There's a few things that I need assistance with as below. I'll need HA for server hardware and also printing services so if...
View ArticleQuestion about cluster node NodeWeight property
Hi,I have a three nodes (A/B/C) windows 2008 r2 sp1 cluster testCluster, and installed KB2494036 for three nodes,suppose Node A is a active node. I configured node C's NodeWeight property to 0, and...
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