Lately I see a lot of issues with file sharing in clusters. Wrong connections ,DNS,Share mistakes etc. This is a how to file share in Windows 2008R2 Clustering. I assume that you have already a cluster if not see my blog on how to setup a Windows cluster ( R2 or 8 ). How do [...]
Often when you do a validation health check the first nic is not the first nic and you did check it in the network options. There is a way to change this or to checkit. You can change it in the advanced settings with the up down arrow. OR Do this with WMI Open a [...]
There are several ways to install a VM simple create and install OS. Or with SCVMM 2012 But If you want to do it fast and you don’t like the Image thing witch I don’t like. then there is a solution. In under the 3 minutes I create a Fresh installed Windows 2008R2 SP1 [...]
In a Cluster You can cluster Services this can be done by the wizzard Or with Powershell. Below a easy powershell script to create a clustered services. In my case I used the altiris Services You can adjust this whit any services You like. Add-ClusterGroup -Name AltirisGroup Add-ClusterResource -Name Altiris -Resourcetype "Generic Service" -group AltirisGroup [...]
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2494036 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 quorum model. [...]
Do you know the problem reboot your server and you can’t RDP to it but you can ping and if you are in the same subnet you can RDP ? Well maybe you hit a bug , yes I was surprised to where is my DGW ? try bing and you find more of the [...]
