Windows 2008 R2 cluster with iSCSI storage.

We have a 2 node cluster setup with iSCSI storage. Is there a way to set the storage so that it becomes active on a specific node, when that node is online? The storage is failing over properly but we have to do a manual failover to
get the server back on the "primary" node.
Actually it's a way it should work from the very beginning... Make sure you did not disable automatic fallback. See for more information:
Configure Failover and Failback Settings for a Clustered Service or Application
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd197473(v=ws.10).aspx
Good luck!
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3 Node Failover Cluster With iSCSI

Is there any information available on the steps to create a 3 node failover cluster with iSCSI storage? Is there a step-by-step guide? I looked around but couldn't find much. Thanks!

Hi SCPSTech,
The 3 node cluster create steps same with 2 node, you can refer the following step by step white paper create the 2 node cluster then add the another node to cluster.
Configuring Failover Clusters with Windows Storage Server 2008
http://blogs.technet.com/b/storageserver/archive/2009/12/17/configuring-failover-clusters-with-windows-storage-server-2008.aspx
Add a Server to a Failover Cluster
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc730998.aspx
More information:
Add or Remove Nodes in a SQL Server Failover Cluster (Setup)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms191545.aspx
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Task scheduler in windows 2008 R2 cluster.

We have clustered server and there's two nodes - Active(A1)/Active(A2).
Ordinary client can connect A1, but A1 is failed then connect A2 by windows 2008 R2 cluster.
We have a task scheduler exe module created by .net framework in each node.
When A1 server is operated, we wanna just A1 job scheduler active.
And A2 server is operated, just only A2 job scheduler acitve.
Can We contoller this situation in exe module or Failover Cluster Manager?
parky

If you upgrade to Win2012 or higher you can. Here's a blog on it:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/clustering/archive/2012/05/31/10312527.aspx
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Elden

Is there any way to enable eventlog replication between two nodes in windows 2008 failover cluster.

Is there any way to enable eventlog replication between two nodes in windows 2008 failover cluster.
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Hi,
As far as I know there don’t have the log replica function between failover cluster node, if you want to have the Unified log management you can refer the following related
KB:
Configure Computers to Forward and Collect Events
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc748890.aspx
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Windows 2008 R2 Cluster - migrating data to new SAN storage - Detailed Steps?

We have a project where some network storage is falling out of warranty and we need to move the data to new storage. I have found separate guides for moving the quorum and replacing individual drives, but I can't find an all inclusive detailed step
by step for this process, and I know this has to happen all the time.
What I am looking for is detailed instructions on moving all the data from their current san storage to new san storage, start to finish. All server side, there is a separate storage team that will present the new storage. I'll then have to install
the multi-pathing driver; then I am looking for a guide that picks up at this point.
The real concern here is that this machine controls a critical production process and we don't have a proper set up with storage and everything to test with, so it's going to be a little nerve racking.
Thanks in advance for any info.

I would ask Hitachi. As I said, the SAN vendors often have tools to assist in this sort of thing. After all, in order to make the sale they often have to show how to move the data with the least amount of impact to the environment. In fact,
I would have thought that inclusion of this type of information would have been a requirement for the purchase of the SAN in the first place.
Within the Microsoft environment, you are going to deal with generic tools. And using generic tools the steps will be similar to what I said.
1. Attach storage array to cluster and configure storage.
2. Use robocopy or Windows Server Backup for file transfer. Use database backup/recovery for databases.
3. Start with applications that can take multiple interruptions as you learn what works for your environment.
Every environment is going to be different. To get into much more detail would require an analysis of what you are using the cluster for (which you never state in either of your posts), what sort of outages you can operate with, what sort of recovery
plan you will put in place, etc. You have stated that your production environment is going to be your lab because you do not have a non-production environment in which to test it. That makes it even trickier to try to offer any sort of detailed
steps for unknown applications/sizing/timeframes/etc.
Lastly, the absolute best practice would be to build a new Windows Server 2012 R2 cluster and migrate to a new cluster. Windows Server 2008 R2 is already out of mainstream support. That means that you have only five more years of support on your
current platform, at which point in time you will have to perform another massive upgrade. Better to perform a single upgrade that gives you a lot more length of support.
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MS SQL Server 2008 Metro Cluster with same subnet

Hi All,
I want to setup SQL 2008 Active / Passive Cluster for OCS 2007 between two Data centers, Both DCs are same location which building 1(DC1) and building 2(DC2).
I am planning to use Hyper-V cluster between two DCs and then create SQL 2008 VMs then create another windows 2008 with SQL clusters.
For the above solution, I need to use ISCSI based EMC VNX-e storages on both DCs and do the replication.
Is there any other better solution to perform? Please help me to provide more infromation.

Hi,
Additional, we recommend that your clustered servers be member servers. If they are, you need an additional server that acts as the domain controller in the domain that contains
your failover cluster.
The related KB:
Failover Cluster Step-by-Step Guide: Configuring a Two-Node File Server Failover Cluster
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc731844(v=ws.10).aspx
Windows Server 2008 Multi-Site Clustering Technical Decision-Maker White Paper
http://download.microsoft.com/download/3/B/5/3B51A025-7522-4686-AA16-8AE2E536034D/WS2008%20Multi%20Site%20Clustering.doc
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Windows 2008 Failover Cluster - Cannot add a generic service

Trying to add a generic service in a failover cluster.
Select the option Services and Application and it opens the wizard and then displays the error "An error was encountered while loading the list of services. QueryServiceConfig failed. The system cannot find the file specified"
The cluster validation wizard completes successfully. Permissions do not appear to be an issue as this account can seemly do everything else so I am at a loss to understand why this API is failing when it tries to query the server for services information.
Having searched the Internet the only thing I have found was someone posting a similar issue in the Greek language Technet forum(if I recall correctly) and their comment was they rebuild their cluster.
Windows 2008 (SP2) x64 two node cluster running a non-Microsoft database. We need to add a non-Microsoft Enterpirse backup solution and this is their documented method (adding it as a generic service) - both bits of software are from big vendors.
Symantec AV, but have tried with that disabled so don't think it has anything to do with that. Something is stopping the API from reporting back but I can't find what.
Really appreciate some help before we have to log a chargable call with Microsoft support
Thank you

Hi,
Have you tried the suggestion? I want to see if the information provided was helpful. Your feedback is
very useful for the further research. Please feel free to let me know if you have addition questions.
Best regards,
Vincent Hu

How to Perform Forced Manual Failover of Availability Group (SQL Server) and WSFC (Windows Server Failover Cluster) with scrpiting

I have a scenario with the three nodes with server 2012 standard, each running an instance of SQL Server 2012 enterprise, participate in a
single Windows Server Failover Cluster (WSFC) that spans two data centers.
If the nodes in the primary data center are unavailable due to data center outage. Then how I can able to access node in the WSFC (Windows Server Failover Cluster) in the secondary disaster recovery data center automatically with some script.
I want to write script that can be able to check primary data center by pinging some IP after every 5 or 10 minutes.
If that IP is unable to respond then script can be able to Perform Forced Manual Failover of Availability Group (SQL Server) and WSFC (Windows Server Failover Cluster)
Can you please guide me for script writing for automatic failover in case of primary datacenter outage?

You are trying to implement manually what should be happening automatically in the cluster. If the primary SQL Server becomes unavailable in the data center, it should fail over to the secondary SQL Server automatically. Is that not working?
You also might want to run this configuration by some SQL experts. I am not a SQL expert, but if you have both hosts in the data center in a cluster, there is no need for replication between those two nodes as they would be accessing
the database from some form of shared storage. Then it looks like you are trying to implement Always On to the DR site. I'm not sure you can mix both types of failover in a single configuration.
FYI, it would make more sense to establish a file share witness in your DR site instead of placing a third node in the data center for Node Majority quorum.
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Monitoring printers attched to a Windows print server cluster with Operations Manager

I am trying to configure SCOM 2012 R2 to monitor the individual printers that are managed with a Windows 2008 R2 Print Cluster. I have the management packs installed for Windows Clustering and Print Servers. When I view the print queue status in the
monitoring pane I see the locally installed printers on both of the nodes but none of the printers that are managed by the cluster services. What do I need to do to accomplish this task? Thank you!

Hi,
Hope this helps you.
Supplemental MP for monitoring individual printers
http://thoughtsonopsmgr.blogspot.com/2010/12/supplemental-mp-for-monitoring.html
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Sapjup cannot find correct shares on Windows 2008 R2 cluster

Hello Guru's,
I have succesfully installed CRM 5 Abap+Java on Windows 2008 R2 based hardware. This is a HA setup.
I am now in the process of upgrading to CRM 7.01. Unfortunately, the java upgrade program SAPjup runs into an error (share
Host_A\sapmnt does not exist) I cannot solve up to now.
This is my setup:
I have two application servers: Host_A and Host_B. Both servers form a Microsoft Failover Cluster. The shared disk for the abap and java central services is the F:\ drive, the cluster name is Cluster_X.
The Central Instance is installed on the local disk G:\ of Host_A; The Dialog instance on local disk G:\ of Host_B.
As instructed in the manual, I have moved the SAP cluster to Host_A and started the the upgrade process on G:\ drive of the same host.
During the phase PREPARE/INIT/INPUT_SAPSERVICESID_PWD_HA, the SAPjup program is trying to map the
Host_A\sapmnt share to a drive letter ('net use' command). This step results in an error.
I can explain this error since the proper share in my opinion should be
Cluster_X\sapmnt instead of
Host_A\sapmnt.
In Windows 2003 this was not a problem, because
Cluster_X\sapmnt and
Host_A\sapmnt can both be accessed and refers to the same disk location when the cluster group is active on Host_A. However, in Windows 2008 R2 this is not the case anymore and
Host_A\sapmnt is not a valid share.
Has any one of you run into this same problem or have suggestions how to solve?
Rob Veenman
SAP Technology.

I owe you an answer for the issue we had.
I opened a message with SAP, and got acklowledge that this is indeed a bug in SAPJup. SAP is working on a solution.
The work around (which was succesful) was as follows:
1. I moved the SAP Cluster group to Host_B (the DI host).
2. I created g:\sapmnt on Host_A and copied content from the shared drive
Cluster_X\sapmnt
to this local drive.
3. I shared diretory g:\sapmnt with share name sapmnt on Host_A and gave
SAP_<SID>_GlobalAdmin Read/write access.
Now SAPJup can continue. At the next interrup, you can remove the local directory g:\sapmnt and move the cluster disk back to Host_A.
I will give an update and close this thread as soon as I get a definitive solution from SAP AG for this issue.
Rob Veenman
SAP Technical Consultant.

Windows 2008 R2 cluster

Dear Friends
I have created fail over cluster in windows 2008 r2 after long working hours i have made the cluster service up and now i am unable to the add the node to the cluster following is the error please help me in this
regards
error : 100% Waiting for notification that node is a fully functional member of the cluster.This phase has failed for Cluster object ' ' with an error status of 1460 (0x000005B4).
Cleaning up
System error 1460 has occurred (0x000005b4).
This operation returned because the timeout period expired.
Server used :
Domain Controller : windows 2008 R2 standard
Node1: windows 2008 r2 Enterprise
Node 2: Windows 2008 r2 Enterprise
Please do help me in this regards, Awaiting for your favorable reply and suggestions
Thanks and regards
Srini

Hello Srini,
Please run the cluster validation and make sure the node1 network configuration is properly configured, this issue is due the communication timeout between the nodes.
There are 2 causes for this issue
1 --> Duplicate accounts in AD, this error occurs if you are adding node to cluster which has the computer name same as the user account name in active directory
2 --> windows firewall port might block the communication ports between the nodes, please make sure you turn off windows firewall on both the nodes
Look for any specific errors in system event logs
If you dont get much information then please generate cluster log and upload it here then we can analyse and see what's causing this issue.
Cluster log /gen
will generate a cluster log and place it in the %systemroot%\Windows\System32\Cluster\Reports
Sincerely, Asifkhan -- Please mark my post helpful if it was really helpful to you.

Add additional IP to Windows 2008 SP2 Cluster

Dears,
I have a 2 node SQL 2008 Cluster 64bit (non r2) on Windows 2008 SP2 64bit (non r2) Server.
I need to add additional IP (different subnet) to the Cluster Quorum Resource.
Kindly guide me the steps to add the IP ?
Thanks
Tariq

HI Tim,
Well we need more than one IP address on the Cluster (Quorum) for our replication to work as for some reason we cannot use the production IP which is currently configured for this Cluster.
Further if you are doing multi-site cluster with different subnet then you may need two IP with different subnet on the cluster (not for services or application)
I found this usefull command and it worked on the win 2008 sp2 (non r2) server:
C:\>cluster . res "FS IP Address" /create /group:"file server" /type:"IP Address" /priv address=192.168.1.106 subnetmask=255.255.255.0
For win 2008 r2 servers there is powershell command through which we can achieve the same.. :)
it took me hard time to figure out that "failoverclusters" module will not work for win2008 SP2 server.. !!
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Windows 2008 R2 cluster and FTP-connection

Hi,
We have windows 2008 r2 server cluster. There is a resource which is connected by the third part
via ftp. When they establish the connection, there is configured ip-address to certain node.
When we manage cluster, it might happen that the resource is left on the other node and when they
establish next time the ftp-connection, it says that can't connect. I've made similiar usernames with
similiar passwords on both nodes.
Is there a possibility to configure the environment so, thta ftp-connection is not depend on which
node the resource is?
Br, Petteri

Hi Peter Castle,
When you want to keep the session on one server you must use the Single Affinity option.
The related KB:
Specifying the Affinity and Load-Balancing Behavior of the Custom Port Rule
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc759039(v=ws.10).aspx
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Windows 2008 backup failed with error code '2155348040'

Hello,
For the backup of our Windows 2008 servers, we use Windows Server backup. On one of the servers the backup will not run. In the application eventlog of the server there is the following message:
Log Name:      Application
Source:        Microsoft-Windows-Backup
Date:          2/16/2010 9:00:03 PM
Event ID:      546
Task Category: None
Level:         Error
Keywords:
User:          <user>
Computer:      <computer>
Description:
Backup attempted at '2/16/2010 8:00:03 PM' failed to start, error code '2155348040'.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
    <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Backup" Guid="{1db28f2e-8f80-4027-8c5a-a11f7f10f62d}" />
    <EventID>546</EventID>
    <Version>0</Version>
    <Level>2</Level>
    <Task>0</Task>
    <Opcode>0</Opcode>
    <Keywords>0x8000000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2010-02-16T20:00:03.559Z" />
    <EventRecordID>33498</EventRecordID>
    <Correlation />
    <Execution ProcessID="4744" ThreadID="3516" />
    <Channel>Application</Channel>
    <Computer>...</Computer>
    <Security UserID="S-1-5-21-3054417077-3708097399-2792259940-500" />
</System>
<EventData>
    <Data Name="BackupTime">2010-02-16T20:00:03.559Z</Data>
    <Data Name="ErrorCode">2155348040</Data>
    <Data Name="ErrorMessage">%%2155348040</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>
Does anyone know how to solve this problem?
Best regards.
Wilfred van der Heijden

Hello Wilfred,
thank you for bringing your concerns to us.
  The error code 2155348040 indicates BLB_E_BACKUP_TARGET_SPACE_NOT_ENOUGH which happens if the target volume size is not
sufficient to create a backup. In your case the total used space of source volume(s) could be greater than the space on the target volume.
So please check the free and used space on the source volumes and retry the backup with the target volume space greater than that total
space. We recommend the target volume size to be 1.5 times of the total size of all the source volumes for scheduled backups so that you
  can have sufficient number of backup versions stored.
If you are using Block Level Backup then one other possiblity could be that your source volume is fragmented causing the backup size to be
more than expected. If that is the case then retry the backup after defragmenting the source volume.
Thanks,
Bikash Agrawala [MSFT]
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Windows 2008 x64 comliance with failsafe

I have to install failsafe in a windows server 2008 x64 OS and after that an oracle db 10.2.0.x
From articles that I've read failsafe server 3.4.1.x (3.4.1.6 is the latest from what i've seen in metalink) is compatible with windows server 2008 x64 but not its failsafe manager.
From another article it says that the manager of failsafe server 3.4.2 is compatible with windows server 2008 x64 but i can't find anywhere that version (metaling, oracle, edelivery).
Has anyone got any idea which release of failsafe i need to install into my windows server 2008 x64 in order to have also the failsafe manager available and also where to find that release?
Thanks

I have spoken with Oracle support and they told me the download is not available yet but will be soon. This was as of 11/23/2009. We are trying to install the same version on windows 2008 64-bit.
Supposedly the 3.4.1.6 32-bit Oracle failsafe client manager will work with the Windows 2008 64-bit machine. I have tried to find the download on the web but it is not available yet. We shall see when they have it available.

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