Questions tagged [failovercluster]
A failover cluster is a group of servers that work together to maintain high availability of applications and services
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Moving Windows file server contents from one iSCSI LUN to another
Good day,
I have a fileserver role on a Win2016 Failover Cluster backed by an NTFS volume on an iSCSI LUN.
I need to move its contents to another iSCSI LUN, on another block storage system.
The ...
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Hyper-V console only works on Server 2012R2 and not on Server 2016
I am facing an issue connecting to the 2016 Hyper-V host from my Server 2016 Jump server. The connection works fine on 2012R2 machines. Listing the details
Hyper V host running on Server 2016 Core ...
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How to assign IP address for MS SQL AG Listener?
Sorry folks this is maybe a stupid question but I'm struggling.
All manuals like this just say "Click to add to add a static IP address to a selected subnet..." and nothing more.
I don't ...
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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 can I configure command-line options for a WSFC Service
I have a Windows Server 2022 Failover-Cluster consisting of two nodes. It has the Fileserver role configured (by wizard) which works as expected.
Using the Failovercluster-Manager (GUI), I added ...
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Failover Cluster Disk Replication
We have a Windows failover cluster containing a shared disk assigned to a Role and want to set up replication from it.
We tried removing the disk from the cluster to use DFS Replication, however we ...
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Event ID 1207 in Cluster Events Log once an hour
I have a two node, hyper-v failover cluster running windows server 2022. I'm getting this error every hour in the cluster events log, event id 1207:
"The computer object associated with the ...
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Am I doing this wrong? Networking - High Availability: SAN, MSFT Failover Cluster, NIC Teaming
I have been working in a lab environment to figure out how to design a SAN with a Microsoft failover cluster using multiple NICs, MPIO and iSCSI. I'll try to add as much useful information as I can, ...
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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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Hyper-V cluster-joined host chooses wrong NIC to send SMB traffic
I have the following scenario:
Four Hyper-V host servers running Windows Server 2019, joined in a Hyper-V Failover Cluster. Each server has the same network config - a Management network (Cluster and ...
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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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Error connecting to windows cluster
We currently have 6 MSSQL (SQL2016 Enterprise) servers running on Windows server 2016. We are running windows failover cluster and always on availability.
Last weekend we had an issue with the ...
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Pacemaker cluster does not cleanly failover DRBD-resource (but does so manually)
I had to upgrade a cluster from Ubuntu 16.04. It did work fine on 18.04 and 20.04 but now on 22.04 it does not failover the DRBD-device. Putting the resource into maintenance mode and performing a ...
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Having two datacenters with two virtual servers at each, what is the suitable redis topology for high availability?
I have two data centers, A and B, which has two virtual servers at each site. We have connectivity between the two sites. I'm planning to deploy one redis HA cluster with two masters and two slaves. ...
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Multiple Quorum Disk Witnesses in Windows Failover Clustering?
I believe that I have a need to have 2 separate disk witnesses, but am having trouble finding anything that gives any advice or shows any examples. If anyone can provide some constructive advice, I ...
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Access denied error when bringing a Windows failover cluster role back online after long downtime
I have a two node failover cluster running SQL Server 2016 (Standard) using Availability Groups (DB1 and DB2). I turned DB2 off as a cost saving measure for COVID by switching all the roles to DB1, ...
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Virtual active directory on disk storage - good practice
I have come here to ask a question that is bothering me. What is the best way to virtualize Active Directory when I have two physical servers and a disk array.
I know that I need at least two domain ...
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Azure datacenter 2019 failover cluster unresponsive after reboot only when shared disk is assigned CSV
We're seeing some really strange behaviour with a 2 node cluster on azure 2019 datacenter. We didn't see the issue right away but at some point it started happening and now we can repeat it.
We have ...
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How to get an IP address for MS SQL Cluster network configuration?
I just started a new internship and have been tasked to set up a SQL failover cluster. They gave me 3 virtual machines to use and when I started I knew nothing. I've been doing a lot of research the ...
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Failover all cluster roles at once
I'm setting up a failover cluster on Azure 2019 VMs. I've got to set up both a file server and a generic service. Ideally I'd like to always move them both to the same node rather than having to do ...
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Unzipping to general file share is slow on azure shared disk. Clustered windows server 2019
I have a file share server running on an azure VM cluster.
Copying already existing files to the file share gets really good speed. Averaging about 60 MBps. So if I copy a file from a local machine ...
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Add Node to Fail-over Cluster Failing to Communicate over 3343
We have an existing Windows 2012 2 node cluster with file witness, but are replacing them with 2019 servers. So we can just reuse the existing cluster object, we're adding the 2019 servers to the ...
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SQL Always On Failover Cluster Issues
We have created an Always on SQL Failover Cluster. There are 4 servers in the cluster, 2 on one subnet and 2 on another.
FAILOVER CLUSTER (172.16.82.22 OR 172.16.92.22)
SQL AVAILABILITY GROUP
LISTENER ...
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Microsoft Storage Powershell Module 'Get-Disk' doesn't list disks when Failover-Clustering is installed
I have 10 disks on a Windows 2016 Server. If I have the Windows feature 'Failover-Clustering' installed, the Get-Disk cmdlet only reflects two disks - even when the server is not yet part of a ...
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Errors about Making Failover-Cluster on Hyper-V with Win-Server-19 on Powershell
Good day. On my working have task to make Cluster incide cluster on Hyper-V.
Started to do this. Made 3 virtual PC on Hyper-V, download Failovering cluster by command:"Install-WindowsFeature ...
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Can't mount a NFS share on File server rule running in Windows Failover Cluster
On Microsoft Windows Failover Cluster (Windows Server 2019 Datacenter) I've created a File Server role and created a NFS share (similar to how it's described in these instructions). The idea was to ...
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Java Generic Service in Windows Failover Cluster
I created a JAVA-backend in spring boot and configured it as Windows Service. The purpose of the service is to serve REST API.
For instance, to list users, we need to call: localhost:8090/users
I want ...
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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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Poor Cluster Shared Volume performance when node is not CSV owner
We have a 5 node Windows Server 2016 Failover Cluster setup using an HPE Nimble as shared storage. We're using the cluster for Hyper-V. All virtual machine VHDXs are stored on the cluster shared ...
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How to move PAM from DR to primary machine without any downtime?
My environment is :
Primary site : 2 MBX and 2 CAS -- fsw \srv01\dag
DR Site : 1 MBX and 1 CAS --alternate fsw \srvdr1\dag
my question is : I want to move primary mailbox node (pr-mbx-01 )...
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Stretch Cluster File Server with Storage Replica - Partnership not reversing on failure simulation
First off, sorry if this is the wrong place to post this.
I have a Storage Replica setup running in a MSCS Stretch Cluster configuration, two sets of two VMs with each set running on a separate ESXi ...
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Mixing server models in Hyper-V Failover Cluster
Does anyone have experience with a heterogeneous blend of servers in a Hyper-V failover cluster? We have a cluster with blended generations of Proliants (DL360 G9s and DL360 G10s), and I'm ...
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What is the bottleneck of my HP MSA? Is it intended for a CSV at all?
I am an apprentice at a company in Switzerland.
We have a testing / learning environment for us, which consists of multiple physical servers.
There are two physical Microsoft Hyper-V servers that are ...
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How to set SQL-Always-On in Kubernetes Linux container?
I raised 3 pods of SQL servers in Kubernetes:
1 as a primary DB
2 others as Secondary DBs
I want to set SQL-Always-On feature between those 3 DBs in a way that:
In SSMS the 3 DBs will be "...
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Validate Switch Enabled Teaming Configurations Cluster Validation Failure
Setting up failover Clusters using windows Server 2022.
Both nodes are server 2022 fully patched.
Both nodes are running on VMware ESXI/vSphere
Validate Switch Enabled Teaming Configurations
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Pacemaker/Corosync: how to emergency-shutdown all resources (VMs qemu/kvm)
Good morning everyone -
Running a 6 node Pacemaker/Corosync cluster with lots of productive qemu/kvm VMs on it, we were wondering how to best do an "emergency shutdown" of the whole lot, ie. ...
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File Server Cluster with shared storage - options for storage
We would like to build two-node File Server Cluster with Shared Storage on VM. The issues is that our vmware set up doesn't support disk sharing.
File server cluster must be available all the time of ...
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Identifying current main DHCP server
There are two DHCP server of the same IP address example.(10.100.9.12 and 10.100.9.13).
The gateway, subnet mask, and DNS is the same.
The current DHCP are running on Vlan9.
Is there any possible way ...
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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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Orphaned Domain in Windows Forest - Unable to Connect to Cluster in Hyper-V Failover Cluster Manager
Have a question here that pertains to an orphaned domain, specifically trying to connect to a Hyper-V cluster in Failover Cluster Manager.
We have a Windows forest with a root domain of domain.tld. ...
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Bring Windows Failover Cluster On-Line with only One Node
I would like to set a policy such that my Failover Cluster will always come into service, even if only one (of the two nodes) is available.
Background: I have only two nodes in the cluster, plus a ...
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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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Windows Failover Cluster With SQL Server
We are moving away from using VMWare over to Windows Failover Cluster (version 2019) to host our company services. I have successfully configured WFC and have a few Virtual-Machine roles running along ...
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NetFT - Validation Failed - SMB Network Path Not Found
Two new Windows Server 2019 Datacenter edition servers setup in a Failover Cluster, cluster validation is failing at 'Validate CSV Settings' as follows:
Validating Server Message Block (SMB) share ...
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Trying to use keepalived for failover and forwarding but getting "Keepalived_healthcheckers[1706]: TCP socket bind failed. Rescheduling."
The goal is to get two different CentOS 7 VMs with keepalived installed to perform failover with VIP 192.168.1.11 and also forward the http (to become https shortly after this works) traffic to a ...
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Windows 2016 cluster validation test fails - Why isn't my server listening on UDP Port 3343
Getting a failure message similar to this
Network interfaces s-test-01.assemblyni.gov.uk - LOM1Port1_Mgmt and s-test-02.assemblyni.gov.uk - LOM1Port 1_Mgmt are on the same cluster network, yet address ...
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Failed to map guest I/O buffer for write access with status 0xC0000044 Hyper-V-StorageVSP Event ID 8
Full Error information:
Error 8/9/2021 10:35:11 AM Hyper-V-StorageVSP 8 None
Failed to map guest I/O buffer for write access with status 0xC0000044. Device name = d:\vms\servername\virtual ...
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Windows server failover clustering dependencies
I have 3 servers which with the following processes:
Server 1: 1 process
Server 2: 4 process
Server 3: 1 process
What i need to configure after a failover is the following :
On server 2 start the ...
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High availability VM Windows server [closed]
How can I create a highly available VM running the Active directory role and DNS role. If one server goes down I would like it to fail over to the other node where clients within the domain will still ...
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Windows Server 2019 2 node failover cluster offline after some reboot
I have 2 windows server 2019 on VirtualBox. I have configured the failover cluster and it's working. I'm testing the failover and failback.
These are the steps I have done after completing the ...