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Cluster Migration Wizard, is this the only way to migrate shares on a Cluster?
As everyone should know by now, the way to get your Windows 2003 Cluster Server to Windows 2008 and 2008 R2 Failover Clustering is by doing a migration to the new cluster .   So let’s say we have a Windows 2003 Cluster running as a File Server and Read More...
Be Sure to Plan Carefully When Virtualizing Your Infrastructure
There is a lot of excitement around Microsoft virtualization technologies these days and rightfully so.  One of the ‘hottest’ areas right now appears to be making virtual machines highly available using Windows Server 2008 R2 Failover Clusters so Read More...
Deleting a Cluster resource? Do it the supported way
The purpose of this posting is to explain the supportability of removing resources on a Cluster Server.   We have seen an increase lately with users manually deleting resources from the Cluster registry and I wanted to say that this is unsupported Read More...
Windows Server 2008 R2 Live Migration – “The devil may be in the networking details.”
Windows Server 2008 R2 has been publicly available now for only a short period of time, but we are already seeing a good adoption rate for the new Live Migration functionality as well as the new Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) feature. I personally have Read More...
Using Pass-Through Disks in Conjunction with Clustered Shared Volumes (CSV) in Windows Server 2008 R2 Failover Clusters
This blog is essentially an update, or follow-up if you will, to the original blog I wrote for Windows Server 2008 Failover Clustering.   With the release of Windows Server 2008 R2 comes the ability to Live Migrate highly available virtual machines Read More...
Creating a Virtual Machine to be stored on a Cluster Shared Volume
Cluster Shared Volumes is a new feature of Windows Server 2008 R2 Failover Clustering intended to enhance the capabilities of Highly Available Virtual Machines. It is recommended to utilize Cluster Shared Volumes if you intend to use the Live Migration Read More...
Resource Hosting Subsystem (RHS) In Windows Server 2008 Failover Clusters
In this blog, I would like to explore some of the inner-workings of the Resource Host Subsystem (RHS) which is responsible for monitoring the health of the various cluster resources being provided as part of highly available services in a Failover cluster. Read More...
Failover Cluster Validation Firewall Error in Windows Server 2008 R2
An issue involving a firewall configuration error in the cluster validation process just surfaced here in Microsoft Support so I thought I would post a quick blog in an effort to not only inform our readership, but to ‘nip this in the bud’ before we start Read More...
Why is my 2008 Failover Clustering node blue screening with a Stop 0x0000009E?
John Marlin here from the Windows Cluster Support Team again and today I want to talk about the Stop 0x0000009E and hang detection in Windows Server 2008 Failover Clustering. Just to set some expectations for the blog, I am not going to tell you exactly Read More...
Expected Snapshot Merge Behavior for a Highly Available VM
Hello m y name is Sean Dwyer, and I'm a Support Escalation Engineer working in the Windows CORE team here at Microsoft. While working with snapshots that are attached to a highly available VM in a Cluster, you may notice after deleting a snapshot, it Read More...
Top Issues for Microsoft Support for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V (Q3)
It is time to update everyone on the issues our support engineers have been seeing for Hyper-V for the past quarter.   The issues are categorized below with the top issue(s) in each category listed with possible resolutions and additional comments Read More...
Active Route Gets Removed on Windows 2008 Failover Cluster IP Address Offline
We have received calls adding static routes on Windows Server 2008 Failover Clustering nodes and wanted to pass along some important information regarding this.  The issue is that when you add a static persistent route to a network adapter that is Read More...
Recovering a Deleted Cluster Name Object (CNO) in a Windows Server 2008 Failover Cluster
Greetings once again from the support trenches here on the CORE team.   I want to talk a bit about a Windows Server 2008 Failover Cluster issue that appears to be on the rise.   What we are seeing is the Computer Object for the Cluster Name Read More...
Windows 2008 Failover Cluster Validation Fails on ‘Validate SCSI-3 Persistent Reservation’
We’ve been seeing a lot of calls lately from customers who are running the validation that’s required prior to installing and configuring failover clustering, and the validation fails in the ‘Storage’ portion of the tests. The specific error seen in the Read More...
Maximizing Limited Storage Resources in a Windows Server 2008 Failover Cluster
We have encountered scenarios where customers are implementing Windows Server 2008 Failover Clusters and they want to make quite a few services and applications highly available but, they are not able to purchase additional Storage to facilitate this. Read More...
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