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Windows Cluster-controlled service started on multiple nodes - how could this happen?

TL;DR Summary: I have a two-node cluster, and after two years of working without issue, a service under cluster control was started on both nodes, and I want to know how that's possible. Background: ...
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Basics on setting up a hyper-v cluser on a Windows 8 host

I'm a complete newbie to setting up servers and clustering, so baby gloves please :) I am trying to simulate a cluster of 4 nodes on my windows 8 laptop using hyper-v (its a beefy laptop, so don't ...
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Windows failover cluster - Delegate permissions to Domain user to move a group to another node

Is it somehow possible to assign permisions to non-admin user to monitor and move cluster group? Is there any workaround for this? I'm interested in Windows server 2008 r2 and 2012. I'm avare there ...
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Hyper V Live Migration Only Goes One Way (Error 21502)

We've been running into an issue recently with one of our server stacks. Our two 2008 R2 servers are running in a cluster set up to live migrate VMs between eachother in case there is ever a detected ...
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MS Cluster Core Resources IP Address VS Service Resource IP Address

Basically I'm completely naive in clustering. However I have to install an application that connect to a Sybase DB running inside MS Clustered environment. The cluster environment was setup by my ...
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Building Windows Failover clusters, re-use quorum drives?

I'm building a series of virtual failover clusters, 2 for SQL, and 1 for BizTalk. Being that it is a Proof of concept virtual setup with no real expectations around high availability, is it possible ...
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Quorum Disk size for Windows 2008R2 failover

I am setting up a two node failover cluster for SQL Server 2008 R2 on Windows Server 2008 R2. Microsoft recommends minimum 512MB size LUN for the quorum disk and don't have a recommendation for the ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...