re: Introducing Cloud Witness in Windows Server 2016
It looks to be a nice feature. Is there any chance to introduce this in 2012 R2. When 2016 will be available for production environment use.
View Articlere: Workgroup and Multi-domain clusters in Windows Server 2016
Is this method creating the multi-domain WSFC still applicable on TP4?Because I was able to add node from a child domain using GUI to an existing cluster.Another confusion I've is when using...
View Articlere: Workgroup and Multi-domain clusters in Windows Server 2016
Is this method creating the multi-domain WSFC still applicable on TP4?Because I was able to add node from a child domain using GUI to an existing cluster.Another confusion I've is when using...
View Articlere: Workgroup and Multi-domain clusters in Windows Server 2016
To the commenter above: Thank you for trying this feature out in TP4. The mechanism to create a cluster in this configuration is still as indicated in this blog (using PowerShell only). However, in TP4...
View Articlere: How to add storage to Clustered Shared Volumes in Windows Server 2012
Hi, great information. I have a question regarding mounting an existing CSV from another cluster. We are planning of migrating from 2008 R2 SP1 to 2012 R2. We want to use this documented procedure -...
View Articlere: How can we improve the installation and patching of Windows Server?...
I second what Dennis said. Either give enterprises isos with latest rollups already in them, or give us 1 big cumulative update from the initial iso release, every time a new update rollup comes out,...
View Articlere: How to Enable CSV Cache
When I checked the counters, taking the resource offline and online, or moving it, enabled the counters as well...
View Articlere: How to add storage to Clustered Shared Volumes in Windows Server 2012
Hi Bill,This would be the approach to proceed...- Unmask LUNs for 2012 machines- Run cluster migration wizard. - Offline disks and workloads on 2008- Online disks and workloads on 2012.Best,Subhasish
View Articlere: Configuring site awareness for your multi-active disaggregated datacenters
Mb off top but about PowerShell and clustering. How to get cluster Id(cluster instance ID) with WMI? There is cluster ID property that can be retrieved with "Get-Cluster | fl Id" powershell command....
View Articlere: Validate Storage Spaces Persistent Reservation Test Results with Warning
I got a case with the same issue and this blog helped me to lead the customers the right direction.Thanks Steven.
View Articlere: Cluster Shared Volume (CSV) Inside Out
Would you advise to exclude the \Device\CSVVolume0\ string from AV scanning? We have seen that this can cause large response times when UPD's are mounting to RDSSH servers.
View Articlere: Cluster Shared Volume (CSV) Inside Out
@ Harry Hello Harry, from what I've seen up to Windows Server 2012 R2 many AV products would not work well with CSVFS. Partly because CSV did not handle some scenarios well, and partly because AV...
View Articlere: Cluster Shared Volume (CSV) Inside Out
To AlexOpening your file with share none would certainly break H oplock on the other nodes to none and should force close any files hanging on the other nodes due to caching. H oplock break is...
View Articlere: Testing Storage Spaces Direct using Windows Server 2016 virtual machines
Hi Stephen, any news on the roadmap for:- support for less nodes (eg 3)- support for hyper-converged model (hyper-v and SS direct on the same hardware)
View Articlere: Tuning Failover Cluster Network Thresholds
I see you mentioned CrossSubnetDelay/SameSubnetDelay as seconds. I believe this should be milliseconds as per the blog - msdn.microsoft.com/.../jj151927(v=vs.85).aspx.
View Articlere: How to Move Highly Available (Clustered) VMs to Windows Server 2012 with...
@Rob-MSFTWhere can I find the guide with the second way that you mentioned?Using System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 (SCVMM 2012) with Service Pack 1I will appreciate any advice.Manuel
View Articlere: Tuning Failover Cluster Network Thresholds
@Mahesh. You are correct that the expression is in milliseconds. The table in this article notes it in seconds to be more readable. The PowerShell examples show milliseconds. There really is no...
View Articlere: Tuning Failover Cluster Network Thresholds
Thanks for articulating a nice understandable article. Looking forward to see many articles..
View Articlere: Tuning Failover Cluster Network Thresholds
Very nice article which has proven useful already in my azure legacy sql server 2014 ha setup, Thank you.
View Articlere: Testing Storage Spaces Direct using Windows Server 2016 virtual machines
So is Storage Spaces Direct is = S2D ... ... then is Storage Spaces Shared = S3Thanks for the Help.
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