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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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What is a Microsoft Failover Cluster Virtual Adapter anyway? A question often asked is, "What is the Microsoft Cluster Virtual Adapter and what can I do with it?" The typical, and correct answer, is to leave it alone and let it just work for
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You may be wondering why, at this point in time, we are publishing a blog such as this. That is a good question, but the answer is rather straightforward - because even though Windows Server 2008 has been out for awhile now, we are starting to see an
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The Windows Server 2008 Failover Clustering auditing feature has been requested by customers and provides the capability to monitor, or audit, cluster access. The cluster auditing feature can be enabled to audit accesses (Success and\or Failure) of an
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In prior versions of Windows Server Cluster (NT, 2000, 2003), adding a new disk to an existing cluster was often a cumbersome process. Sometimes the OS would not recognize the new disk. Sometimes the Cluster would not be able to add a new disk resource.
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