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Enable MPIO in existing cluster without downtime
I have a 4 node Hyper-V cluster running on Windows 2008 R2. Prior to my tenure, the cluster had only single links to the SAN. I added redundant links but now I need to enable MPIO on all of the nodes.
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Is there a way to fix Cluster-SSH windows positions automatically?
Have you used Cluster-SSH? It's a GUI (frontend) to secure shell (ssh) which function it's to let you write the very same commands to a lot of hosts. If you open a lot of hosts at the same time, ...
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Unable to manage cluster as Failover Cluster Manager erroring on load
I have a Windows 2008 R2 cluster which I'm trying to manage from my local machine, however I appear to have broken Failover Cluster Manager somehow, and now every time I go to open it I get an error ...
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SQL Server filestream access from another computer using system account
I have a SQL Server 2008 set up to use filestream. SQL Server runs under a domain account with SPN set and delegation enabled.
Accessing filestream from another computer using a domain account works.
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W2K8R2 : How to safely take a Windows Service cluster resource offline
I'm looking for a safe way to take a Custom Windows Service offline. My problem is that this custom service sometimes hangs during stop. The problem will be fixed, but in the meantime, killing the ...
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Service fails to start when failover kicks in
I created a Windows Service which hosts a WCF application looking at/binding to the Clustered MSMQ
The Windows service was first installed on both nodes of the cluster.
I then created a cluster of ...
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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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Server 2008R2 cluster for hyper-v - start with a single server?
I'm planning a Hyper-V virtualization system what will include:
2 very nice dual 16 core servers
Dell MD3600f fibre channel SAN
It will be running about 10 virtual machines. The plan is to setup ...
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How to present shared storage for MS Cluster Services running on vSphere 5
I've seen two approaches to handling the presentation of shared storage to Windows Server 2008 R2 cluster VMs on VMWare vSphere. One is the traditional method of carving out a LUN on your SAN and ...
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Completely Remove an Exchange Cluster even though it's cluster info is long gone?
With the proviso that I realize I screwed the pooch on this, here's my situation.
We used to have an Exchange 2003 two-node cluster. Several years back we migrated to Google Apps. When we did that, ...
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Cloud Storage as a File Share Witness?
Does anyone know if there is a service out there that can be used as a file share witness for a Windows Server 2008 R2 Failover Cluster File share witness?
I have a two-node cluster but no good place ...
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Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 SP3 upgrade
It's not clear to me from reading the documentation if I must update the clients, or whether I can just update the head node and compute nodes.
Does anyone have any experience of this? I don't want ...
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What are the exact storage requirements for an AlwaysOn implementation?
We're investigating implementation options for SQL Server AlwaysOn.
AlwaysOn is dependant on Windows Clustering, and I have read several articles that state shared storage is no longer a requirement ...
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NTFS permissions for a user on another computer in case of a disk moving in a cluster?
Is there a way to set NTFS permissions for a user on another computer?
I have two nodes in a failover cluster. Both have a specific user account ("charley") local to the node. Charley has files on a ...
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Windows Cluster Fails after Power Outage
First, we have a Windows 2008 R2 Two Node cluster running HA Hyper-V and DHCP. We utilize a back-end Dell MD3000i iSCSI SAN for storage. All of the networking is done via redundant switches and MPIO ...
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Load Balancing & Windows Failover Cluster 2008 r2
I have a windows service that I would like to load balance and failover. I have had a quick play with the failover cluster manager and it seems I can only have one active node with n inactive ...
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MSCS file share majority: Why does it like a Windows-hosted share, but not a CIFS-based ZFS-hosted share?
I'm looking to change the current file share used for the file share witness in an existing two-node MSCS SQL cluster. Currently, the share is hosted by a remote windows machine, and I want to move ...
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Windows 2008 multi-site cluster with even number of nodes, why use File Share Majority instead of Disk Majority?
This Microsoft document says that a multi-site cluster with an even number of nodes (ours has two nodes) should use "Node and File Share Majority".
We have shared storage for the two locations. Why ...
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Installing SQL Server 2008 SP2 fails in 2003 cluster setup
When I try to install SP2 (or simply "repair" the SQL Server installation), the dependency check finds the following problem:
Rule "Not clustered or the cluster service is up and online." failed.
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Windows 2008 SQL cluster won't come online after db failure
We have a new SQL 2008 R2 cluster on Windows 2008 R2 that is active/passive. We restored the large db to the sql instance to start testing and it choked on the integrity check and failed the db ...
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Windows Cluster IP/Hostname doesn't respond to UNC requests, yet ping and RDP work
I have a Windows Server 2003 cluster of 2 nodes in an active-passive configuration. I can ping both nodes, rdp and access their unc shares.
I also have an alias, which directs to a cluster IP set ...
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Upgrading 32-bit SQL Server cluster to 64-bit
Here is my situation. $WORK has a trio of three clustered database servers (64-bit Server 2003) that are currently running two SQL Server instances. Unfortunately, when the cluster was set up a ...
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Active Directory Server for Windows Clustering
I understand that Windows clustering requires Active Directory.
If I were to setup a Windows Server 2008 R2 cluster, will there be any issues if the Active Directory server is running Windows Server ...
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HPC server 2008 R2 stuck in a operations loop
Somehow after running a maintenance of the cluster I got there errors showing and going in the loop on every HPC node.
It doesn't seem to affect health of the cluster though. Is there any way to clear ...
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Windows Cluster constantly reporting network connectivity issues
We have a Windows 2003 cluster with 3 nodes running two SQL Server 2005 instances. They regularly report messages like this in the logs that seem to indicate network issues, can someone more ...
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How do I configure a DCHP reservation for an IP Resource in a Windows 2008 R2 failover cluster?
Background
My company has recently instituted a corporate policy that all servers are to have IP addresses that are issued via DHCP reservations to simplify the management of our IP scopes. We have ...
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How to implement Peer to peer database replication between two sites?
I am looking for SQL Server database solution which can replicate data between two sites vice versa (not just one way)
I’ve looked into SQL Server failover cluster (MSCS) but then since I have two ...
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unable to destroy windows 2008 r2 failover cluster after SAN rebuild
I created a windows 2008 r2 failover cluster for a sql 2008 active/passive cluster. This two node cluster was using a SAN device for a quorum disk resource as well as MSDTC resource.
Well....I ...
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Building Windows Clusters [closed]
I'm a research student and I want to build a windows cluster at home with my laptops to test my parallel codes.
The problem is I'm using Windows 7 Home Premium, not a server edition.
I'm using ...
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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?
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Event log entry when moving service or application to another node
I have a windows Server 2008 R2 cluster and I would like to be able to distinguish between a user initiated failover and a failover caused be a resource check failing.
I was hoping that the cluster ...
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Windows Server 2008 R2 Cluster Print Server Failure
I have a Windows Server 2008 R2 failover cluster environmental that is having some issues with the print server application. I recently changed it's preferred node from one to the other, and with this ...
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Windows Server 2008 Cluster Errors
We have a couple dozen Win2008 and 2008R2 Enterprise clusters that are used for SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 Enterprise/Datacenter. In the past we have had many issues with random failovers and ...
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How do I enable DAC on a clustered SQL Server 2008 after I can no longer connect to SQL Server in any other way
I'm having issues with SQLServer 2008 where a Server level triggered was not dropped correctly.
Articles on the web recommend dropping them through the DAC.
However, the DAC is disabled by default ...
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Receiving a notification on a Cluster Group Failover
I have several Windows Cluster set up and I have the need of keeping track of failovers. I'd need to receive a notification of sort whenever a group fails over. I've seen some examples around, but I ...
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Fusion-IO ioDrives in SQL Server cluster
Has anyone successfully set up a Fusion-io ioDrive (or similar product) in a Windows cluster for SQL Server? (I would be interested in either Windows Server 2003 or 2008 and SQL Server 2005 or 2008).
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Windows Server 2008 R2 cluster configuration with odd number of nodes
My shop is putting together a three-node cluster for use as a Hyper-V host for our customer. Previous installations we did for this customer only had two nodes per cluster, so we did Node and Disk ...
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Windows Failover Cluster for MSMQ without SAN?
Is it possible to create a 3 node Windows Server 2008 R2 failover cluster without a SAN?
Our goal is to create a clustered MSMQ without any single points of failure. Ideally, the stored messages ...
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How can I make a Windows service which is not cluster-aware highly available?
I am using Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009's Role-Tailored Client (RTC), which utilizes a 3-tier architecture. The middle tier, which Microsoft calls the service tier, is a non-cluster-aware application ...
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Directories created by XP and Win-7 clients aren't visible to each other
We have a user who has found an interesting misbehavior on our file-serving cluster. He was able to create a directory on his home directory using WinXP and not have it be visible by a Win7 machine. ...
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Testing IIS7 cluster nodes before bringing online
We are starting a migration to a IIS cluster for load balancing, failover support, as well as zero-downtime upgrades.
We are currently testing this configuration with a pair of Windows 2008 R2 ...
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SQL server failover clustering
How many failover clustered nodes can you have?, and
if you add more and more nodes, is it going to slow down?
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Network Share on File Server Cluster being Interrupted
When I perform heavy disk operations, like deleting 10k files at a time, the network share becomes unresponsive and won't serve out files for a short time.
Here's my configuration. I have a failover ...
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Can I Configure a Majority and File Share Quorum Where the File Share is Accessed Over the Internet?
I have a 2-site geographically dispersed Cluster setup and have 1 node in each site. Both sites are connected with FC for large volume synchronous data replication and high-bandwidth network ...
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Moving a single Windows 2008 box to a clustered implementation?
I have a system that currently runs on a single box, Windows 2008 Enterprise. This is just used as a web server.
What is involved in creating a cluster? Basically doing this for availability ...
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Clustering service Configuration help
When setting up Windows Cluster, should "clustering service" run as a "domain account" or "Local System" account?
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Intermittent unavailability of an instance in a failover cluster while a standby node is offline in a SQL Server 2008 failover cluster
I've got a small failover cluster that I run for the websites my company has. During a RAM upgrade of the standby server, our websites started to show errors about not being able to access the ...
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Two clustered SQL instances on one cluster - same port 1433?
Can two clustered SQL instances on a 2003 windows cluster use the same 1433 tcp port setting reliably?
It seems to be up and working right now.
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Windows DFS File System Clustering
We're attempted to set up a high availability network for our file servers, and we're wanting to do a DFS file system cluster using the same back-end storage (our back-end storage has its own ...
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Routing to a Terminal Services Cluster
I am trying to connect to a Load Balanced Windows 2008 R2 cluster using Remote Desktop Services. I have no trouble connecting to the the Servers' IP addresses (.253.16 and .253.17) or the Cluster ...
