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re: How to Move Highly Available (Clustered) VMs to Windows Server 2012 with...
@Anonymous:You ask:"When migrating from a 2-node 2008 R2 cluster to a 2012 R2 cluster, is it possible to have both clusters be running concurrently for a short time? For instance, migrate CSV1 and have...
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re: How to Move Highly Available (Clustered) VMs to Windows Server 2012 with...
@Rob-MSFTAre there any workarounds for vms that were created using SCVMM? Or has this been fixed in R2 2012. **Referring to the issue 'Tom Weustink' was having.
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re: PowerShell for NLB: Part 1: Getting Started
I experience the following error message when I run get-nlbcluster: The term 'Get-NlbCluster' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. How do I install the...
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re: How to Move Highly Available (Clustered) VMs to Windows Server 2012 with...
Server 2012 R2 no longer has a 'Migrate Roles...' option like it did in non R2. However, it has a 'Copy Clustered Roles...' option. Is it safe to assume that choosing this option (Copy clustered roles)...
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re: How to Move Highly Available (Clustered) VMs to Windows Server 2012 with...
@Tom Weustink@B.HuynhThanks for your comments:(1) Still investigation issue with VMs created using SCVMM 2008 R2 and then migrating them using the 2012 Cluster Migration Wizard.(2) In Windows Server...
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re: How to Move Highly Available (Clustered) VMs to Windows Server 2012 with...
Thanks for your help Rob, looking forward for the new blog post for R2 soon!
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re: Understanding the state of your Cluster Shared Volumes in Windows Server...
Thanks for a very interesting post.I would love to see more of these truly in depth and technical blog posts about CSV.
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re: How to Enable CSV Cache
Is there such a thing as having too large a cache? I'm running 4 blades with 384gb of memory each, and even on a busy day all our VM's combined don't use 300gb of ram. So I currently have 200gb of csv...
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re: How to Run ChkDsk and Defrag on Cluster Shared Volumes in Windows Server...
Defrag.exe C:\ClusterStorage\Volume4 /A /U /V outputs:Invoking slab consolidation on CSV_Data (C:\ClusterStorage\Volume4)... Slab Analysis: 0% complete...CSVFS failed operation as volume is not...
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re: How to Run ChkDsk and Defrag on Cluster Shared Volumes in Windows Server...
Analysis does not require the volume to be in redirected mode.The output you have pasted does not appear to be consistent with analysis. It says "Invoking slab consolidation" and not "Invoking...
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re: How to Run ChkDsk and Defrag on Cluster Shared Volumes in Windows Server...
I am running Defrag.exe C:\ClusterStorage\Volume4 /A /U /V , I copy/pasted and also typed it manually. Same error.I cheched the event log and the Event ID is 257, with the same error message.This is a...
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re: How to Run ChkDsk and Defrag on Cluster Shared Volumes in Windows Server...
Hi;Instead of using chkdsk command directly, using Repair-ClusterSharedVolume is also supported?Thanks
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re: How to Run ChkDsk and Defrag on Cluster Shared Volumes in Windows Server...
Great information - thanks.So we don't need to enable redirected mode to run chkdsk?
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re: Understanding the Repair Active Directory Object Recovery Action
The "Repair Active Directory Object" is greyed-out for me. The CNO object is in AD and I have the "reset password" permission. Is there a way to get the passwords in sync manually?
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re: Understanding the Repair Active Directory Object Recovery Action
The Network Name resource must be in an Offline or Failed state to run Repair against it. My guess is that your resource is in an Online state, which is why it is grayed out.Thanks!Elden
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re: VM Monitoring in Windows Server 2012 – Frequently Asked Questions
Thanks for the post and comments; since you have to have a backup VM for patching, you have to do all configurations twice....the old method seemed better / easier for this.
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re: Understanding the Repair Active Directory Object Recovery Action
Hi,Unfortunately, the network name will not come online and none of the other cluster services and applications will come online. The only things that come online are the disks and the cluster IP address.
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re: VM Monitoring in Windows Server 2012 – Frequently Asked Questions
Thanks for your note Kristian! I do agree that this solution is less amenable that the previous strategy w.r.t. patching given that your spooler service is tied to your VM. However, I don't see why you...
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re: How to Run ChkDsk and Defrag on Cluster Shared Volumes in Windows Server...
@Miha, Thanks for the details. I consulted the defrag folks and it appears that for thinly provisioned storage, slab consolidation analysis (not the actual consolidation) is run during defrag. This...
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re: How to Run ChkDsk and Defrag on Cluster Shared Volumes in Windows Server...
@Subhasish: thank you for the feedback and a possible fix.
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