Questions tagged [windows-cluster]
A computer cluster consists of a set of connected computers that work together, and thus can be viewed and operated as a single system in many respects. A Windows cluster is such a set of computers running a Windows operating system. This feature has been available since NT 4.0.
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What is the setting to use on other nodes after force starting cluster on a certain node?
I'm learning about force starting a cluster in the event of a DR.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/failover-clustering/manage-cluster-quorum#prevent-quorum-on-remaining-cluster-nodes
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Why is there random choice made in a 2 node + file share cluster when File share dies?
In a 2 node wsfc with file share witness, each node has got 1 vote, and the witness also has got 1 vote. Total 3 votes.
Given that we have concepts of dynamic quorum, dynamic witness; when the file ...
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Utilizing A Secondary IP On A NIC In A Windows Cluster
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I have a windows cluster with 3 nodes in it...
Node1
Node2
Node3
I have 4 NICs on each node...
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NIC2_Virtuals
NIC3_Cluster_HB
NIC4_Live_Migration
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Windows Cluster unable to failover
I need help on an issue I just found on a Windows Server 2016 cluster of two nodes, Server A in network 192.168.10., the other node, Server B on a different network, 192.168.20.
All the resources (six ...
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How to force iSCSI disk refresh/rescan
I have a 3 node Windows 2022 cluster that is using iSCSI attached volumes. When I reboot the servers I get a ton of MPIO errors and it takes forever to see the disks. When they are seen in Disk ...
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Building a low-cost, high-availability cluster using Windows Failover Cluster or Proxmox
I need to build a high availability cluster (key functionality, SLA almost 24/7) for virtual machines (AD DC, FS, WSUS, Print server, one Oracle database, a few Linux (not important to business).
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How do I get a complete list of all Windows AD computer accounts that are part of a cluster group in my AD domain?
Regardless of whether they are active nodes or passive nodes, how do we get a list of all Windows AD computer accounts in a cluster group?
Using the PowerShell module: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-...
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Failover Cluster Manager - Location of the stored clusters
I have about a dozen clusters that i monitor daily. I use the Failover Cluster Manager under MMC for a dashboard view of the clusters.
Two things i am looking for.
Where are the cluster names that ...
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Unable to move Cluster Core Resource
I'm attempting to move Cluster Core Resources from 1 node to another in a 4 node WSFC (these are all VMs running on Compute Engine in Google Cloud, Windows Server 2012 R2, each in a different subnet). ...
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Difference between quorum setups
Three environments (LAB, DEV/TEST, PROD) 2 NODES (active, inactive), 7 ROLES.
Experiencing fail over issues on the PROD environment, but the LAB and DEV/TEST clusters are not experiencing the same ...
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Immoveable VHDX files on Shared Cluster Volume
Some time back I created 2x VHDX files to attach later to Virtual Machines.
When I tried to add the disks today, I got an error stating the files are in use by another process.
I also cannot delete ...
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Accessing a storage-side snapshot of a cluster-shared volume
From time to time I am in the situation where I need to get data back from storage-side snapshots of cluster shared volumes. I suppose I just never figured out a way to do it right, so I always needed ...
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how many nodes can we add to windows failover clustering
In Availability group, for windows server 2012 only 4 replicas supported
from windows server 2016 8 replicas supported
Just like that how many nodes can add into our windows failover clustering?
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file share witness the given key was not present in the dictionary
Setup so far:
Two physical servers running Windows Server 2012 standard: INF-HV1 and INF-HV2
Each physical server has a guest Windows Server 2012: INF-N1 under INF-HV1 and INF-N2 under INF-HV2. INF-...
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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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How to remove stale routes during Windows Cluster RESTART?
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I have a Windows Cluster (2016) with four nodes (3 NICs each). When I try to restart any of the cluster host server, the whole cluster going down and other nodes are randomly failing.
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Windows Cluster - Moving a node to different network
I have a 3 node SQL always on cluster running , is it possible to move a node to different network(subnet) without evicting & creating the node again.
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How can i get a virtual machine in Hyper-V to carry on running in failover cluster. 2 Nodes, Server 2019
Forgive me if I am missing something obvious but I am very new to servers and failover clustering. I haven't found a question that quite answers what I am looking for yet.
My goal is to make a VM run ...
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Building Windows server cluster hpc
I'm trying to set up a Windows Server cluster with a head node and 2x compute nodes.
So far, i've managed to install : (thanks to this tutorial http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj884142.aspx)
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MS SQL server 2019 failover cluster - Event ID 18456, Login failed for user 'domain\server1$'
New MS SQL server 2019 installation on Windows Server 2019, failover cluster role enabled; fully patched Windows, SQL 2019 CU 11.
Nodes:
server1 - 10.10.10.1
server2 - 10.10.10.2
Instances:
sql1
sql2
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Error adding a new node to Windows Failover Cluster Service - Parameter is incorrect
We are trying to add new nodes to an existing Windows Failover Cluster (WFCS). When we run the Add Node wizard in Failover Cluster Manager, or run the Add-ClusterNode in PowerShell, we get the same ...
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Can't reach File Server Cluster by DNS name
I'm trying to set up a file server cluster so that it can be accessed by a standard DNS name on our domain. I've got a DNS A record set up, pointing app.clusters.ourdomain.com to the cluster service ...
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How do I resolve the message "Validating WSFC quorum vote configuration - Action Required."
I have a 3 node AlwaysOn Availability Group on a 3 node WSFC using node majority. 2 nodes are setup as synchronous with automatic fail-over, the 3rd is setup as asynchronous with manual fail-over. ...
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Using a Mikrotik router's SMB service as a file share witness gives error
I am having an issue trying to use use a Mikrotik CCR router as a file share witness in a WS2019 cluster. I can connect to the share with RW access on a standard Windows 10 machine as well as on one ...
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Windows Server 2016 guests in WSFC cluster randomly quarantined due dropping heartbeat routes
Having 2 guest Windows Server 2016 OSes hosted by Hyper-V Server 2016. The guest OS cluster is very unreliable and one of the nodes constantly gets quarantined (multiple times per day).
I also have ...
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Unable to validate Microsoft cluster
I have Microsoft windows cluster.
I have 2 nodes on windows 2008 R2 SP1 Ent.
both of them with Windows PowerShell 4 and with up to date with Windows updates
When I'm trying to do a validation to this ...
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Rename folder that contains opened files in a Windows server shared resource
This is a Windows 2012 Cluster with a File server role.
I'm trying to rename a folder that contains several files and other folders that are in use by users and the OS says that:
Is it possible to ...
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optimize-storage pool fails, cluster upgrade in process
I have a windows failover cluster running Server 2016 for a SQL 2017 Enterprise Availability Group. We have no shared disks on the server, just separate storage on each machine for the SQL AG. On both ...
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Troubleshooting event 5393 from Microsoft-Windows-FailoverClustering
A Windows Server 2016 cluster is somewhat regularly registering the following event:
EventID: 5393
EventLevel: Information
EventSource: Microsoft-Windows-FailoverClustering
MachineName: xxxx
Message: ...
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Can't Live Migrate or move Hyper-V VM
we have a two-node Server 2019 Hyper-V cluster with an SSD SAN providing the shared storage.
I'm in the process of trying to update the host servers with their windows updates.
I planned to move all ...
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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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Query to get the failoverCount and lastFailover in a Windows Failover Cluster
Anyone know of a command or PowerShell script to get the current failoverCount and lastFailover datetime in a Windows Failover Cluster? I have a 2-node cluster that doesn't automatically failover ...
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SQL Server 2012 AAG not failing over in case of SQL Server crash/stop
I have created the following structure:
Two hardware servers with Windows Server 2012R2 installed, SQL Server 2012R2 installed. Then Windows went fully updated and SQL Server was patched to SP4, ...
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Weird cluster file share behaviour
I have a windows server 2016 cluster. Depending on where the file share role is hosted, I am unable to access the unc path of the file share on the node where the role is hosted, but I am able to ...
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Remove-Physical Disk don't progress on my Windows 2016 cluster
I have 2 Windows2016 servers in a cluster shared volume
One of my 18 (2*9) hard disk reports a failure so I want to remove from my S2D pool
This disk is marked as "retired"
$disk=Get-...
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Changing 'disk ID' of Windows GPT disk via Linux
I have a SAN level snapshot\clone of a Windows cluster shared volume (CSV) whocj i want to mount on the same cluster to retrieve files, as form of backup.
As detailed here: Accessing a storage-side ...
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SQL Server fails over while vmware virtual machine backup
Recently we moved clustered SQL Server 2017 running on Windows Server 2016 from physical to VMWare, since then everyday it started failing over at same time. No Error in SQL Server logs but Windows ...
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Microsoft Cluster: The volume 'ClusterPerformanceHistory' is running low on available storage capacity
Not finding anything in documentation. Since some months ago, I regualrly have the volume ClusterPerformanceHistory (which is automatically created with around 12gb net size) running full, with in ...
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Disks showing up under Disk Management but not under Get-PhysicalDisk
I have a 2 node Windows server 2019 Cluster running on Vmware ESXi 6.5
I added 3 25GB disks to the server after it had been created.
I can see the 3 disks in the disk management tool
If I run Get-...
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WINS on a Windows 2016 cluster
Our client is still tied to WINS (let's not get into the whys and wherefores, its just the way it is) but we need to update the clusters that WINS is running on from Windows 2008R2 to Windows 2016. ...
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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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Where can I find the "Create Computer Object" Permission in Windows Server 2016?
I'm trying to prestage the cluster name object for the cluster I'm creating. I'm looking at the steps provided here (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server-...
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Creating Windows Cluster with Powershell
I have a Windows cluster provisioning script. I am not able to execute the New-Cluster command as Administrator. It says that the user should be a domain user to be able to execute the command.
I m ...
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Can I rename a Windows failover cluster virtual network name AD object
I have a new Windows 2019 Failover Cluster. I enabled the Automatic Cluster Aware Update feature, and this is functioning correctly. It created a Computer object in AD called CAUBORG6cx. Am I able ...
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No access over firewall to shared folder on clustered fileserver, but access to shares on a node server works
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We have new a Windows Failover Cluster installed and are running a clustered file server on it that hosts file shares.
We need to access these shares through a firewall from ...
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Windows Server 2019 VM clustering shared storage [closed]
Spec: Windows 10 host, 2 Windows Server 2019 VMS's in a cluster setup. The cluster is setup and fully functional except for the storage.
However; I am unable to understand if this scenario is ...
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Windows Server Failover Clustering - cannot choose desired subnet when creating
I'm setting up a new WSFC cluster, intended for SQL HA, but that's not actually important as yet.
Node A has:
An IP in Subnet 1: this is where the machine's "primary" IP is, set by the hoster.
An ...
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Unable to add new 2019 HyperV node to 2012R2 HyperV Cluster
I could really use some help here. I evicted an failed HyperV node from our 2 node 2012R2 Hyper-V cluster. The node has been rebuilt with server 2019 and am trying to re-inject it back into the ...
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Nested Virtualization and CSV issues in Hyper-V server Cluster Failover
I have 3 Windows server 2019 VMs,virtualized on Windows 10 pro. (MAIN HOST)
server 1 is AD/DC/ISCSI target/DNS/DHCP.
server 2 and 3 formed a failover Hyper-V Cluster and this cluster hosts a ...
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Not able to add node in cluster and getting exception while adding the node in Windows failover clustering
Recently one of the cluster node got rebooted(due to some disk corruption) for which we first removed from cluster and after that when we are trying to add it back into cluster we are facing exception....
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