re: Configuring IP Addresses and Dependencies for Multi-Subnet Clusters -...
Thanks for the great post!!I have tested on my Win 2008 R2 server and all is well- but both the IP Address are online (even after various movegroup).But my real concern is that I am trying to achieve...
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hello, I found this usefull command and it worked on the win 2008 sp2 (non r2) server:C:\>cluster . res "FS IP Address" /create /group:"file server" /type:"IP Address" /priv address=192.168.1.106...
View Articlere: PowerShell for NLB: Common Scenarios
In the explanation and the example on this site."-Timeout Specifies the number of minutes to wait for the drain operation before stopping the cluster node"
View Articlere: How to Properly Shutdown a Failover Cluster or a Node
Hello Elden,I have an Windows 2012R2 failover cluster and the Active Directory was made high available due to the fact that from 2012 the cluster can boot-up without the AD. I tested this in case a...
View Articlere: How to Run ChkDsk and Defrag on Cluster Shared Volumes in Windows Server...
The NetApp array has options that allow it to be Thinly provisioned, but report differently. To check this use the command 'lun show -vserver vsa1 -volume vol2 -lun lunname -fields space-allocation. It...
View Articlere: Managing Hardware Snapshots on Failover Clusters
Hi, The article is very good to understand about the hardware snapshot LUNs back to the cluster node. I have a small clarification on changing the disk signature .... How can storage array(vendor) can...
View Articlere: How to Properly Shutdown a Failover Cluster or a Node
Hi,I only see the start command via powershell. Is it possible to start via failover cluster manager?
View Articlere: How to Move Highly Available (Clustered) VMs to Windows Server 2012 with...
Any reason this process won't work on the "core" version of Hyper-V. i.e. "Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008R2". I currently have a 2-node 2008R2 HA cluster with "core" servers and am looking to migrate...
View Articlere: Understanding Quorum in a Failover Cluster
Is there any requirement for a FSW to reside on a Windows server? Can I use a Netapp SMB share instead, as long as the permissions are correct?
View Articlere: Understanding Quorum in a Failover Cluster
Braden, We support FSW only on Windows Servers i.e. that is the only scenario we test internally. However, there are 3rd party FSWs (including on NetApp SMB shares) that have been known to work just...
View Articlere: Introducing NLB Application Health Awareness!
Can we monitor Application Pool health as well ?
View Articlere: Introducing NLB Application Health Awareness!
Got the answer from the below link:www.microsoft.com/.../details.aspxThe IIS MP provides monitoring of the following objects: Web Sites Application Pools FTP Servers NNTP Servers SMTP Servers
View Articlere: Cluster Shared Volume (CSV) Inside Out
Hi,Thanks for this post that puts some light over CSV architecture!First I write a few comments on the post and then please help me solve my below described challenge and understand a feature.C1. The...
View Articlere: Cluster Shared Volume (CSV) Inside Out
To Sergiu,C1. “Shared” can mean so many different things. In the context of CSV emphasis is on multiple machines being able to read from/write to the volume.C2 Please see second post here...
View Articlere: Cluster Shared Volume (CSV) Inside Out
Thanks Vladimir! Q1 is clear now.Q2 - from you answer I understand that MS doesn't have (yet) any synchronous storage replication technology that we could use to implement active-active metro...
View Articlere: Deploying SQL Server 2014 with Cluster Shared Volumes
Hi Subhashish,Very helpful post. I am trying to install MSSQL 2012 Enterprise with SP2 over windows 2012 R2 but i am not able to proceed further than point 19. I have went through your ppt as well....
View Articlere: Deploying SQL Server 2014 with Cluster Shared Volumes
Hi Ravinder, Please see my response to Tariq's post above. You are running into the same issue.Best,Subhasish
View Articlere: Understanding Quorum in a Failover Cluster
If you have a 4-node cluster with Node and Disk Majority, what happens if you lose two of your nodes simultaneously and one of them is the "owner" of the witness disk? The actual storage underpinning...
View Articlere: Understanding Quorum in a Failover Cluster
Doesn't matter... the surviving nodes will arbitrate and win the witness and the cluster will stay up. All goodness
View Articlere: Understanding Quorum in a Failover Cluster
@Elden will those remaining nodes not already be in the process of shutting down because quorum has been lost? See what I mean about a race condition, or has this case specifically been designed for so...
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