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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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Removing and reinstalling System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012

I initially setup hyper-v on a single server with a FC SAN. I configured it as a failover cluster with just the one server in it, using cluster shared volumes for the VMs, knowing I'd expand later. ...
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Clustering Hyper-V with Server 2012 - MPIO Version Mismatch

I've done a fair bit of searching around online and am having a lot of trouble finding info regarding how to upgrade the Microsoft DSM for MPIO. I have two nearly identical servers, both with fresh ...
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RPC Server Unavailable on Hyper-V cluster when moving resources after the host adapter has failed

On a Windows 2008 R2 SP1 cluster running Hyper-V, a lost network connectivity on the primary host interface. The interface was rapidly flapping up and down, and this was later determined to be caused ...
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Clustering a live 2008 r2 server

I have a W2K8 R2 Datacenter server running Hyper-V with a Equallogic PS4100 SAN. I 5 virtual machines running in production. I now have a second server and would like to set both up for clustering. ...
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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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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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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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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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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?