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How to properly shut down Windows Server 2008 R2 cluster?

We need to shut down MS Failover Cluster running on two nodes with MS Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise for hardware maintenance. I recently came across two possible approaches on how to shut down ...
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What is the differences between a Remote File Share Witness Quorum and a Disk Witness Quorum?

Say you set up a Windows Server Failover Cluster consisting of two nodes, on Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise. Now when you want to configure quorum you can use either a remote shared folder, or a ...
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Cannot WMI Query root\MSCluster namespace as Local Admin

I'm trying to use WMI Explorer to query the root\MSCluster namespace on various hosts to obtain cluster resource group and resource object data. I can access the namespace with no issue on Win2K3 ...
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Windows Clustering newbie

I am trying to setup a simple environment (virtual) to prove that when a Node in a cluster goes down, the other picks up. After much pain I think I may have this however I would love for people here ...
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Re-Ask - why would adding a crossover private nic cause IP address resource fail? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: why would adding a crossover private nic cause IP address resource fail? 2 node Win 2008 R2 quorum cluster Configured 192.168.0.0/24 "public network" Configured cluster ...
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2008 R2 Cluster not failing over with iSCSI disconnect

So I have successfully set up a 2 node 2008 R2 cluster with SQL Server 2008. There are basically 3 networks. Public (client LAN) Private (Heartbeat between the two machines) iSCSI SAN (hosts ...
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Cannot resolve cluster resources on EC2?

I have created this cluster on Amazon's EC2 service. I can connect to the sql instance from the first node (there is only one node in the cluster at this time) using the cluster name, so I know that ...
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Windows 2008 r2 2 node cluster - one node unavailable

I have 2 node Windows 2008 r2 cluster, i failed over service onto node2, restarted node1, and after restart node1 is unavailable. The networks interfaces will not come up and both interface are ...
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Failover Cluster: No disks suitable for cluster disks were found

I am trying to setup a failover cluster with two nodes. After running the validation tests, the storage sections had many warnings. The next step after creating the cluster with two nodes on the same ...
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SSIS 2008 R2 performance and Windows 2008 R2 clustering question

I am testing different configurations for loading data from a remote SQL server using SSIS. In a clustered situation SSIS seems slower to speak to the local clustered SQL instance when compared to a ...
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what components need for clustering two windows 2008 server?

what are the basic requirement for clustering in windows 2008 server? 1.i mean which exact 2008 server licence 2. how can i connect two server what component i need for that? 3. what is minimum ...
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SQL Clustering on Hyper V - is a cluster within a cluster a benefit

This is a re-hash of a question I asked a while back - after a consultant has come in firing ideas in to other teams in the department the whole issue has been raised again hence I'm looking for more ...
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Can i use a Windows 2008 r2 Cluster for file redundancy

I'm researching a sever clustering architecture as a redundancy and backup solution for a client, and something that isn't made clear is whether or not i can use server clustering to replace a file ...