re: Configuring a File Share Witness on a Scale-Out File Server
Hi John, This would not have an impact on the clusters currently using the share as a FSW.
View Articlere: Deploying SQL Server 2014 with Cluster Shared Volumes
I was getting the error below and the way we got to install SQL 2014 is the following:1. Move the server (node) that you are trying to install SQL 2014 to the Computer OU2. Delete the user profile that...
View Articlere: Cluster Shared Volume (CSV) Inside Out
We have written a filter driver to track Hyper-V CSV volumes in order to track the modifications in those volumes for backup purpose. When the Hyper-V host is running, we are able to attach the CSV...
View Articlere: Cluster Shared Volume (CSV) Inside Out
great article but from administrative point missing information about partition structure. the problem i faced is losing entire cluster. CSV partitions are then seen as 'RAW' even on cluster...
View Articlere: Cluster Shared Volume (CSV) Inside Out
@ Gopal: If you make you filter to auto-start, and handle in your InstanceSetup call-back the case when you are asked to attach to CSV volume on volume arrival (no-manual attach) then you should be...
View Articlere: Cluster Shared Volume (CSV) Inside Out
@Lelivienne: CSV does NOT introduce new on-disk format. You still format your volumes with NTFS and REFS so even if you destroy the cluster you can manually online the disk and get access to its...
View Articlere: Cluster Shared Volume (CSV) Inside Out
HI Vladimir,Thanks for your reply. We will try the instance call back routine and update you the status. Meanwhile, I have another question regarding CSV 2008 R2, please clarify this too.In 2012 R2, we...
View Articlere: Cluster Shared Volume (CSV) Inside Out
@gopals(replying on behalf of Vladimir)ClusterPrepareSharedVolumeForBackup() was an API used in 2008 R2 to make a CSV volume locally mounted on the calling node so that one could create VSS snapshots...
View Articlere: Configuring a File Share Witness on a Scale-Out File Server
Subhasish,We have a SOFS/Hyper-V cluster that's constantly flagging 1562 and 1062 on the Hyper-V side plus when we go to reboot one of the Hyper-V nodes we get a 1561 for the rebooted node "cluster...
View Articlere: Configuring a File Share Witness on a Scale-Out File Server
Thanks Philip for reaching out. What you are observing is the “Partition In Time” scenario for quorum.It seems that the timestamp updated in FSW is newer than the copy of the cluster database stored on...
View Articlere: Introducing Cloud Witness
What is the OS requirement for this kind of configuration ? I dont get these wizard while using with Windows 2012 R2
View Articlere: How to configure VM Monitoring in Windows Server 2012
good article, i was wondering if it was a custom service, do i see it on step (3) ...?thank you
View Articlere: Windows Server 2012 Storage Migration for Cluster Managed Virtual Machines
Any tips on how to script this via powershell?I've been going thru the Failover Cluster-specific cmdlets and can't seem to find what's needed to hook into "Move Virtual Machine Storage" functionality...
View Articlere: How to Move Highly Available (Clustered) VMs to Windows Server 2012 with...
Does it work for SQL Server 2012 SE cluster built on windows server 2008 R2?
View Articlere: How to Move Highly Available (Clustered) VMs to Windows Server 2012 with...
Does it work for SQL Server 2012 SE cluster built on windows server 2008 R2? Not using CSV's for SQL Server 2012 SE. But nodes built on HyperV
View Articlere: How to Enable CSV Cache
enabled on a hyper-v 2012 r2 cluster, but perf counters show all zero. is there any delay after which the settings are applied, or am i missing something?
View Articlere: How to Enable CSV Cache
Very good article, but how do we coordinate the use of CSV Cache with smart shared storage array caching? For example if we have read/write caching on our intelligent arrays, should we set 100% of the...
View Articlere: How to configure VM Monitoring in Windows Server 2012
Hi BinAry, If it a custom service you won't see it using Failover Cluster manager in step 3. You'll need to configure it using PowerShell as described in the note for step 3.Best,Subhasish
View Articlere: Introducing Cloud Witness in Windows Server 2016
Hi Pijush,This is a new feature being introduced in Windows Server 2016. You can try it out in the Technical Preview 1 or Technical Preview 2 builds for the release downloadable publicly.Best,Subhasish
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