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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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SQL Server Cluster Failover Making DB Inconsistency Error [migrated]
I encountered the following DB tables inconsistency error whenever I do a cluster 'move' over from Server-A to Server-B and then do a DBCC CHECKDB on the database in Server-B:
SQL Server detected ...
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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?
3. what is minimum ...
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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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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 ...
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Windows 2003 Cluster: Failover Delay
I am testing the failover policies of our test failover cluster system. When I shutdown the node who is currently controlling the cluster (NODE1), it takes about 2 mins and 40 seconds before the next ...
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I need advice about iscsi + zfs(or ntfs) + windows 2008 clustering
I want to setup a storage farm with iSCSI. I have 2 cluster node machine, 1 iscsi target machine that has 8TB installed as RAID 10. The capacity is now 8TB, but I'll upgrade the capacity in future. ...
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Windows SQL Server Cluster Failover Without Disruption
Is MS SQL server clustering capable of performing a seamless fail over between nodes? That is, where the clients wouldn't notice anything had changed except perhaps a short delay during the ...
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Configure preferred host on which to run?
We have set up a virtual Microsoft clustered environment and I want to set one virtual machine to run on each physical server.
How can I do this?
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Oracle on windows cluster with online/offline IPs
I have a windows cluster (on windows 2008 server) with nodes in different subnets. So cluster has two IPs, one for each node (I'm talking not about node IP, but about cluster IP). One is online, the ...
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Microsoft Cluster or Oracle Fail Safe error
Trying to get Oracle Database 10g to work on Microsoft cluster (using Oracle Fail Safe, not RAC). Everything installed, but when trying to verify group or add database to group I get following error:
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SQL Clustering vs. SQL VM on a Hyper-V Cluster
In a deployment I'm considering, we have a production sQL server that needs to be highly available. It will be set up on a Server 2008R2 Cluster. Hyper-V will be set up already. I'm worried that ...
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Exchange 2007 two node cluster setup on Windows 2008 Enterprise, install error
I am installing Microsoft Exchange 2007 x64 in a two node environment using Microsoft Windows 2008 Enterprise x64. The Failover Cluster is all setup properly and following best practices for setting ...
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What is the least number of servers I need to deploy a Exchange 2007 CCR (Clustered Continuois Replication) cluster?
I've read that at the very least to get an Exchange 2007 CCR cluster for fail over redundancy, you need 2 servers running Exchange 2007 Ent and a 3rd server of any type as long as its running any ...
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Graceful Tomcat shutdown when Windows clustered service?
We're currently in a situation where a Tomcat service is being brought offline by a batch script each night (or at the presence of a war archive, at least) in a Windows clustered environment.
The ...
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Cluster a vmware server between two cluster nodes
we run a vmware server 1.0 on one node of our Windows failover cluster. As this is a failover cluster we want to be able to cluster the vmware server to another node. Is that possible without concern? ...
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Re-adding SQL Server 2K5 cluster services
We've previously installed MS SQL Server 2005 in a fail-over cluster environment on two servers. After a major failure this weekend, the whole cluster has been recreated, but all the services are ...
