CA Clusters

With Windows Server 2012 or 2012 R2, is it possible to create a CA cluster at the main location with two nodes (Active/passive) and place a third node at a remote location for site failover? I seem to recall that only two nodes were allowed in a CA
cluster but I cannot find that information documented anywhere.
Thanks

I checked it again and it looks like, Microsoft now supports multi-node configuration for clustering with 1 active and N passive nodes. Here is an excerpt from ADCS Clustering guide:
A failover cluster of any size can be used to provide a high availability environment for certificate services
ADCS do not require any specific hardware requirements, ADCS hardware requirements are the same as for Windows Server 2012 general installation.
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Hi Matt,
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Udo -
Yes your responses are very helpful.
Can we use the built-in Server 2012 iSCSI Target Server role to convert the local RAID disks into an iSCSI LUN that the VMs could access? Or can that not run on the same physical box as the Hyper-V host? I guess if the physical box goes down
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usable with a) there was no virtual FC so guest VM cluster could not use FC LUs and b) there was no shared VHDX so SAS could not be used for guest VM cluster as well. Now both are present so scenario is useless: just export your existing shared storage without
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MSFT iSCSI Target in HA mode
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Virtual Fibre Channel
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iSCSI
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Server 2012.
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role. Examples of clustered storage include Physical Disk resources and Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV). Some roles do not require storage that is managed by the cluster. For example, you can configure Microsoft SQL Server to use availability groups that replicate
the data between nodes. Other clustered roles may use Server Message Block (SMB) shares or Network File System (NFS) shares as data stores that any cluster node can access.
Sure you can use third-party software to replicate 12TB of your storage between just a pair of nodes to create a fully fault-tolerant cluster. See (there's also a free offering):
StarWind VSAN [Virtual SAN] for Hyper-V
http://www.starwindsoftware.com/native-san-for-hyper-v-free-edition
Product is similar to what VMware had just released for ESXi except it's selling for ~2 years so is mature :)
There are other guys doing this say DataCore (more playing for Windows-based FC) and SteelEye (more about geo-cluster & replication). But you may want to give them a try.
Hope this helped a bit :)
StarWind VSAN [Virtual SAN] clusters Hyper-V without SAS, Fibre Channel, SMB 3.0 or iSCSI, uses Ethernet to mirror internally mounted SATA disks between hosts.

Need some help with 2012 R2 Clustering Permissions (with Hyper-V)

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I have a hosted Powershell application that sits in a C# web service wrapper. It automates everything to do with Hyper-V and works 100% of the time.
I want the account it is running under (via impersonation) to be able to automate the creation of cluster shared volumes and the addition of VMs as clustered roles.
I've written the code and i am confident it works, but I cannot get my head around how the permissions are supposed to be set-up.
Ideally, I want a single account per hyper-v node, that can:
a.) Administer Hyper-V locally (there seems to be a group for this bit - this is working OK).
b.) Create and add clustered shared volumes within the cluster.
c.) Can add and remove cluster (VM) roles.
d.) Can add and remove data (VHDs) on the CSV themselves.
I ideally like to have this account not be a domain admin, and pare down its rights to the those listed above.
I can't even begin to explain how lost I've got trying to get this to work. Even if I do add a new domain admin, for instance, it doesn’t even seem to be capable off adding cluster roles or deleting files from a CSV. I think I really need to take a step
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Is what I want to do even possible?
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As far as storage: Your script would create the VHDX files on C:\ClusterStorage\Volume#
There is no special permission required for this other than perhaps local admin rights. I can create, delete, and mount VHDX files via Windows Explorer on any system in the domain within the CSV folder set.
UNC: \\NODE\C$\ClusterStorage\Volume#
As far as creating and deleting VMs on the cluster use the PowerShell commands as normal.
One option would be to use Group Policy Preferences to deliver a domain user account to the Local Administrators Group on the Hyper-V Nodes. That user account would be the one that would be used to run your required PS commands in a local admin context.
Another option would be to provision a local admin account with the same UN/Pwd across all nodes and use that for your PowerShell needs.
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When using JDBC connection pools in WAS 6.40 (SP13) in a clustered environment. Are the max connections the number
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Hi Dagfinn,
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QMASTER hints 4 usual trouble (QM NOT running/CLUSTEREd nodes/Networks etc

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• set the COMPRESSOR preferences for "CLUSTER OPTIONS" to "Never copy source to Cluster". This means that all nodes can access your source and target objects (files) over NFS (as above). Failure to to this means LENGTHY times to COPY material back an forth, in some cases undermining the pleasure gained from initially using clustering (reduced job times)
• DONT mix the PHYSICAL or LOGICAL networks in your local cluster. I dont know why but I could never get this to work. Physical mean stick with eother ETHERNET or FIREWIRE or your other (airport etc whic will be generally way to slow and useless), Logical measn leepin all nodes on the SAME subnet. You can do this siply by setting theis up in the system preferences/QMASTER/advanced tab under "Use Network Interfaces". In my currnet QUAd I set this to use BUILT IN ETHERNET1 and in the MPBDC's I set this to their BUILTIN ETHERNET.
• LOGICAL NETWORKS (Subnet): simply HARDCODE an IP address on the ETHERNET (for eample) for your cluster nodes andthe service controller. FOr eample 3.1.1.x .... it will all connect fine.
• Physical Networks: As above (1) DONT MIX firewire (IPoFW) and Ethernet(IPoE). (2) if more than extra service node USE A HUB or SWITCH. I went and bought a 10 port GbE HUB for about $HK400 (€40) and it worked fine. I was NEVER able to get a stable system of QMASTER mixing FW and ETHERNET. (3) fwiw using IP of FW caused me a LOAD of DISK errors and timouts (I/O errors) on thosse DISKs that were FW400 (al gone now) but it showed this was not stable overall
• for the cluster controller node MAKE SURE you set the CLUSTER STORAGE (system preferences/QMASTER/shared cluster storage) for the CLUSTER CONTROLLER NODE IS ON A SHARED volume (See above). This seems essential for SHAKE to work. (if not check the Qmaster errors in the console.app [see below] ). IF you have an SSAFS like XSAN™ then just add this cluster storage on a share file path. NOte that QMASTER does not permit the cluster storage to be on a NETWORK NODE for some reason. So in short just MOUNT the volume where the SHARED CLUSTER file is maintained for the CLUSTER controller.
• FCP - avoid EXPORT to COMPRESSOR from the TIMELINE - it never seems to work properly (see later). Instead EXPORT FROM SEQUENCE in the BROWSER - consistent results
• FCP - "media missing " messages on EXPORT to COMPRESSOR.. seems a defect in FCP 5.1 when you EXPORT using a sequence that is NOT in the "root" or primary trry in the FCP PROJECT BROWSER. Simply if you have browser/bin A contains(Bin B (contains Bin C (contains sequence X))) this will FAIL (wont work) for "EXPORT TO COMPRESSOR" if you use EXPORT to COMPRESSOR in a FCP browser PANE that is separately OPEN. To get around this, simply OPEN/EXPOSE the triangles/trees in the BROWSER PANE for the PROJECT and select the SEQUENCE you want and "EXPORT to COMPRESSOR" from there. This has been documented in a few places in this forum I think.
• FCP -> COMPRESSOR -> .M2V (for DVDSP3): some things here. EXPORTING from an FCP SEQUENCE with CHAPTER MARKERS to an MPEG2 .M2V encoding USING A CLUSTER causes errors in the placement of the chapter makers when it is imported to DVDSP3. In fact CONSISTENTLY, ALL the chapter markers are all PLACED AT THE END of the TRACK in DVD SP# - somewhat useless. This seems to happen ALSO when the source is an FCP reference movie, although inconsistent. A simple work around if you have the machines is TRUN OF SEGMENTING in the COMPRESSOR ENCODER inspector. let each .M2V transcode run on the same service node. FOr the jobs at hand just set up a CLUSTER and controller for each machine and then SELECT the cluster (myclusterA, hisclusterb, herclusterc) for each transcode job.. anyway for me.. the time spent resolving all this I could have TRANSCODED all this on my QUAD and it would all have ben done by sooner! (LOL)
• CONSOLE logs: IF QMASTER fails, I would suggest your fist port of diagnosis should be /Library/Logs/Qmaster in there you will see (on the controller node) compressor.log, jobcontroller.com.apple.qmaster.cluster.admin.log, and lots of others including service controller.com.apple.qmaster.executorX.log (for each cpu/core and node) andd qmasterca.log. All these are worth a look and for me helped me solve 90% of my qmaster errors and failures.
• MOTION 3 - fwiw.. EXPORT USING COMPRESSOR to a CLUSTER seems to fail EVERY TIME.. seems MOTION is writing stuff out to a /var/spool/qmaster
TROUBLESHOOTING QMASTER: IF QMASTER seems buggered up (hosed), then follow these steps PRIOR to restarting you machines.
go read the TROUBLE SHOOTING in the published APPLE docs for COMPRESSOR, SHAKE and "SET UP FOR DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING" and serach these forums CAREFULLY.. the answer is usually there somewhere.
ELSE THEN,, try these steps....
You'll feel that QMASTER is in trouble when you
• see that the QMASTER ICON at the top of the screen says 'NO SERVICES" even though that node is started and
• that the APPLE QMASTER ADMINSTRATOR is VERY SLOW after an 'APPLY" (like minutes with SPINNING BEACHBALL) or it WONT LET YOU DELETE a cluster or you see 'undefined' nodes in your cluster (meaning that one was shut down or had a network failure)..... all this means it's going to get worse and worse. SO DONT submit any more work to QAMSTER... best count you gains and follow this list next.
(a) in COMPRESSOR.app / RESET BACKGROUND PROCESSES (its under the COMPRESSOR name list box) see if things get kick started but you will lose all the work that has been done up to that point for COMPRESSOR.app
b) if no OK, then on EACH node in that cluster, STOP the QMASTER (system preferences/QMASTER/setup [set 0 minutes in the prompt and OK). Then when STOPPED, RESET the shared services my licking OPTION+CLICK on the "START" button to reveal the "RESET SERVICES". Then click "START" on each node to start the services. This has the actin of REMOVING or in the case where the CLUSTER CONTROLLER node is "RESET" f terminating the cluster that's under its control. IF so Simply go to APPLE QMASTER ADMINISTRATOR and REDFINE it. Go restart you cluster.
c) if step (b) is no help, consult the QMASTER logs in /Library/Logs/Qmaster (using the cosole.app) for any FILE MISSING or FILE not found or FILE ERROR . Look carefully for the NODENAME (the machine_name.local) where the error may have occured. Sometimes it's very chatty. Others it is not. ALso look in the BATCH MONITOR OUTPUT for errors messages. Often these are NEVER written (or I cant find them) in the /var/logs... try and resolve any issues you can see (mostly VOLUME or FILE path issues from my experience)
(d) if still no joy then - try removing all the 'dead' cluster files from /var/tmp/qmaster , /var/sppol/qmaster and also the file directory that you specified above for the controller to share the clustering. FOR shake issues, go do the same (note also where the shake shared cluster file path is - it can be also specified in the RENDER FILEOUT nodes prompt).
e) if all this WONT help you, its time to get the BIG hammer out. Simply, STOP all nodes of not stopped. (if status/mode is "STOPPING" then it [QMASTER] is truly buggered). DISMOUNT the network volumes you had mounted. and RESTART ALL YOUR NODES. Tis has the affect of RESTARTING all the QMASTERD tasks. YEs sure you can go in and SUDO restart them but it is dodgy at best because they never seem to terminate cleanly (Kill -9 etc) or FORCE QUIT.... is what one ends up doing and then STILL having to restart.
f) after restart perform steps from (B) again and it will be usually (but not always) right after that
LAstly - here's some posts I have made that may help others for QMASTER 2.3 .. and not for the NEW QMASTER as at MAy 2007...
Topic "qmasterd not running" - how this happened and what we did to fix it. - http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=4168064#4168064
Topic: IP over Firewire AND Ethernet connected cluster? http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=4171772#4171772
LAstly spend some DEDICATED time to using OBJECTIVE keywords to search the FINAL CUT PRO, SHAKE, COMPRESSOR , MOTION and QMASTER forums
hope thats helps.
G5 QUAD 8GB ram w/3.5TB + 2 x 15in MBPCore Mac OS X (10.4.9) FCS1, SHAKE 4.1

Warwick,
Thanks for joining the forum and for doing all this work and posting your results for our benefit.
As FCP2 arrives in our shop, we will try once again to make sense of it and to see if we can boost our efficiencies in rendering big projects and getting Compressor to embrace five or six idle Macs.
Nonetheless, I am still in "Major Disbelief Mode" that Apple has done so little to make this software actually useful.
bogiesan

Cisco Jabber Client for Windows 9.7 Can't Connect to Other IPSec VPN Clients Over Clustered ASAs

Environment:
2 x ASA 5540s (at two different data centers) configured as a VPN Load Balancing Cluster
Both ASAs are at version 8.4(5)6
IPSec VPN Client version: 5.0.07.440 (64-bit)
Jabber for Windows v9.7.0 build 18474
Issue:
If I am an IPSec VPN user…
I can use Jabber to another IPSec VPN user that is connected to the same ASA appliance.
I can’t use Jabber to another IPSec VPN user that is connected to the different ASA appliance that I am connected to.
In the hub-and-spoke design, where the VPN ASA is a hub, and the VPN client is a spoke; if you have two hubs clustered together, how does one spoke communicate with another spoke on the other hub in the cluster? (How to allow hairpinning to the other ASA)

Portu,
Thanks for your quick reply.
Unfortunately, I do not have access to the ASA logs nor would I be permitted to turn on the debug settings asked for above. I might be able to get the logs but it will take awhile and I suspect they wouldn't be helpful as this ASA supports thousands of clients, therefore, separating out my connection attempts from other clients would be difficult.
I can, though, do whatever you want on the Linux router. Looking over the firewall logs at the time of this problem, I don't see anything that looks suspicious such as dropped packets destined for the Windows client.
As I said in my original post, I'm not a networking expert - by any means - but I am willing to try anything to resolve this. (But I might need a bit of handholding if I need to set up a wireshark andor tcpdump.)
Thanks again.

Limitation on Session Size (8K) with Clustering

          Hi.
          Is there a limitation on the session size for a clustered environment. i'm not
          sure whether its true or not. can anyone please clarify. Also is it for the entire
          session object or per user.
          Thanks
          Nitesh


There is no limit as such. The only limit imposed depends on the heap allocated for
          the JVM.
          Nitesh wrote:
          > Hi.
          >
          > Is there a limitation on the session size for a clustered environment. i'm not
          > sure whether its true or not. can anyone please clarify. Also is it for the entire
          > session object or per user.
          >
          > Thanks
          >
          > Nitesh
          Rajesh Mirchandani
          Developer Relations Engineer
          BEA Support

Apex Listener and Clustering - WebLogic Server

Has anybody worked with the apex listener on a clustered WebLogic environment with a load balancer? We are having lots of connection issues, and I am wondering if this could be part of the problem.
Thanks,
Michelle

Someone Kindly try to give me reply for my issue .
Thanks& Regards,
Nitesh pareek.

Can I use Admin Console to Start Clustered Servers ?

          I have just started to look at clustering and am in the process of running through
          the cluster example tutorial. I have used the domain config wizard to create
          a manged server with a cluster and another server to act as the http proxy. As
          I prefer to use the admin console for all tasks I wondered if there is any way
          to start the managed servers from the console. The reason I ask is that I cannot
          find a way to start another server from the console apart from the admin server.
          On a seperate note can anyone tell me whether the multicast IP address is something
          that I should be concerned with as a developer. The reason I ask is that I know
          it is used for clustered servers to communicate, but how can it do that if the
          IP address is a physical box that does not have BEA installed.
          Thanks
          Justin


Yes, you can start all managed servers from the console ... Look under the
          cluser that you create and click on the control tab ... you should be able
          to start all the managed servers that will be apart of the cluster there.
          Weblogic uses a service on the local machine called node manager which will
          start and stop the services on each managed server.
          Its good for developers to know something about multicasting as far as what
          it does, how it works but most system administrators all well versed with
          the inner workings of it. You have to have weblogic installed in order for
          that particular box to become apart of the cluster, and you can run multiple
          managed servers on one physical box but be careful with resource intensive
          apps.
          "Justin Flanagan" <[email protected]> wrote in message
          news:[email protected]...
          >
          > I have just started to look at clustering and am in the process of running
          through
          > the cluster example tutorial. I have used the domain config wizard to
          create
          > a manged server with a cluster and another server to act as the http
          proxy. As
          > I prefer to use the admin console for all tasks I wondered if there is any
          way
          > to start the managed servers from the console. The reason I ask is that I
          cannot
          > find a way to start another server from the console apart from the admin
          server.
          >
          > On a seperate note can anyone tell me whether the multicast IP address is
          something
          > that I should be concerned with as a developer. The reason I ask is that
          I know
          > it is used for clustered servers to communicate, but how can it do that if
          the
          > IP address is a physical box that does not have BEA installed.
          >
          > Thanks
          >
          > Justin
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Problem with application clustering

I am trying application clustering on oracle9ias by creating two oc4j(esevaknr,esevaknr1) instances(on same host) both deployed the same web module and configured orion-web.xml <cluster-congif/>,web.xml with </distributable>.
But i am get the mod_oc4j error
[Sat Jul 16 14:07:45 2005] [error] [client 181.16.254.11] MOD_OC4J_0150: Failed to deterministicly find a failover oc4j process for session request with uid: C_181.16.254.11.6d4c1.1050feaeb8a.-8000#eseva.eseva#508779#esevaknr1#esevaknr1#default_island for destination: esevaknr1.
can any one help me.

Oracle portal does not support that kind of clustering.
It is hidden somewhere in the docs.
Good luck,
Hernando
hjbconsulting at comcast dot net

Update clusters in sub vi's

Is there an easier way to update clusters in all my sub vi's?
For instance I have a cluster of test parameters, not I have to add a new test parameter.
If I add the new say numeric to the top level vi's parameter cluster it of course breaks all sub vi's because the cluster input no longer matches the cluster control on the sub vi's.
That means I have to open every sub vi and update the cluster control.
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Replace each of the current clusters with a type def'd version of each. One replaced the cluster will automatically update when the def changes.
See this nugget on Typ defs.
Ben
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