Archive for the ‘Windows 2008 R2 Cluster’ Category

hotfix that improves the performance of the "AlwaysOn Availability Group" (2012-4-19)

A hotfix that improves the performance of the "AlwaysOn Availability Group" feature in SQL Server 2012 is available for Windows Server 2008 R2 Hotfix Download Available View and request hotfix downloads   Assume that you enable the AlwaysOn Availability Group feature in Microsoft SQL Server 2012 on a Windows Server 2008 R2-based failover cluster. However, [...]

Windows Server 8 Beta Hyper-V Component Architecture Poster (2012-3-15)

The link for this poster is: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=29189   Provides a visual reference for understanding key Hyper-V technologies in Windows Server 8  Beta and focuses on Hyper-V Replica, networking, virtual machine mobility (live migration), storage, failover clustering, and scalability. Here are links to previous posters: 1. Windows Server 2008 Hyper-v Component Architecture with Service Pack 1 [...]

List of Cluster Hotfixes for Windows Server 2008 R2 (2012-3-14)

Hotfixes that were rolled-up to 976932 — Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1) 974930 — An application or service that queries information about a failover cluster by using the WMI provider may experience low performance or a time-out exception 976571 — Stability update for Windows Server 2008 R2 Failover Print [...]

A hotfix is available to let you configure a cluster node that does not have quorum votes in Windows Server 2008 and in Windows Server 2008 R2 (2012-2-28)

Get the hotfix Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC) uses a majority of votes to establish a quorum for determining cluster membership. Votes are assigned to nodes in the cluster or to a witness that is either a disk or a file share witness. You can use the Configure Cluster Quorum Wizard to configure the clusters [...]

Clustering DHCP Windows Server 8 (2011-10-7)

On the BUILD conference highlights Microsoft showed new features of windows server 8. one of the new things was clustering DHCP. Now in windows 8 the DHCP clustering is easy to setup and to manage. When you have your cluster just add the Role and select DHCP server. Just for the Demo I turned off the [...]

Windows 2008R2 MSTDC Clustering how hard can it be. Linked SQL Servers (2011-9-27)

The DTC option is a simple feature just turn it on and it works eh yeh sometimes. but in advanced environments you need often some tweaks and how to’s The following errors are common on misconfiguration on the SQL Cluster / MSDTC source MSDTC encountered an error (HR=0×80000171)  Or if you are using linked SQL [...]