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Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) is a feature in Windows Server in which shared disks are concurrently accessible to all nodes within a failover cluster. The feature was first introduced in Windows Server 2008 R2 as a way to simplify storage with clustered Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs).

Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) is a feature in Windows Server in which shared disks are concurrently accessible to all nodes within a failover cluster. The feature was first introduced in Windows Server 2008 R2 as a way to simplify storage with clustered Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs).

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Cluster Shared Volume Owner Node After reboot

Problem: In a failover-cluster (Hyper-v) the CSV (iSCSI) gets "pulled" to the node that just restarted (after updates) when i don't want it to. I can not find any setting defining CSV owner preference, and even if it exists it does not make sense…
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Web Farms in Windows Server 2016 IIS with Scale-Out File Servers (SOFS)?

It's 2017 and I'm looking for some "best practices" guidance with IIS Web Farms across multiple VM servers. Pre-Server 2016 recommendations like Distributed File System-Replication (DFS-R) Application Request Routing (ARR) and Network Load…
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Create a Cluster Shared Volume with 3 Servers

I'm new to Failover Cluster and everthing that has to do with it. At the moment I have two Hyper-V hosts connected to a VLAN and a third server which I would like to use as a file server so the VMs will be highly available. The two Hyper-V Hosts…
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distributed storage solutions

I've got some desktop PCs available in my company since the last user hardware renewal and I would like to re-use them for a demo plaform. They are powerfull enought to emulate a few servers. I guess I could do some virtualization farm, however…
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How to Resolve Hyper-V Disk Location to Drive Letter

When viewing cluster disk properties in Failover Manager or the physical path to VHD's in the settings of a VM in Hyper-V Manager the location is displayed by GUID. Is there a quick way find out which GUID is mapped to which drive letter with…
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Storage Spaces Direct CSV_REFS latency degraded when diskspd not run on Owner Node, CSV_NTFS good on all nodes

CSV_REFS performs properly when the diskspd test is run on the disk’s Owner Node. Latency increases 35x for 64k blocks when the test is run on any other node in the 4-node cluster. I can switch the owner node around and run the test on the new…
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Two Way Volume Shadow Copy Service

Can one use Windows Server VSS in a two-way configuration? VSS from Volume A to Volume B is a "normal" mode of operation. But, can one do, at the same time, VSS from Volume B to Volume A? That would be Peer to Peer (P2P) sync, I can do that with P2P…
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Hyper-V is there a way to use hyper-v to upgrade all of your guest vm's in a cluster

Hyper-V is there a way to leverage hyper-v to upgrade all of your guest vm's in a cluster, not the cluster nodes but the vm's on them, like cluster os rolling upgrade. I have allot of vm's with windows 2008 r2 and am looking for the best way to get…
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Have Windows 2016 Scale Out File Server where CSV doesn't take VHD expand

The volume was 2.5TB in size. This is actually a VM running on a Hyper-V cluster. So I went to the Hyper-V cluster and using failover cluster manager went to settings and found the VHD Set (think .vhds file). Expanded by 500GB to 3TB in size. Went…
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what disk format I better choose for my windows server 2016 virtual machines for clustering?

I want to create 3 virtual machines hosted on my computer windows 10. these 3 machines would be : 1) 1 machine to be used as a domain controller 2) 2 machines running windows server 2016 datacentre or standard edition I have some questions. the…
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Storage Recommendations for Hyper-v cluster on Server 2016

We have purchased a new set of 5 HP servers and an all solid state 16gb fibre Nimble storage system to replace our aged existing hardware, however, the decision was made above my head to switch from VMware to Hyper-V for the hyper-visor. I haven't…
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Cluster Shared Volume 'no access' for a minute

We have a Failover Cluster with two nodes and a NetApp E Series Storage. The connection is iSCSI. All Windows updates are installed to the hosts, the storage controllers firmwares are up to date. Scenario: I'm restarting HOST2. When I restart that,…
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Trouble bringing a cloned cluster shared volume disk online

I have a Hyper-V cluster (2008 R2) with a CSV that I want to clone. The CSV is on a fibre channel SAN (HP MSA M3 P2000 G3). I cloned a volume from the SAN side of things, and have mapped it to my cluster nodes. The cluster nodes can see the volume,…
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Vm goes to saved state when removing CSV

I have a 5 node Hyper-V cluster running. All 5 servers are running Server 2012 R2, each node is attached two devices using iSCSI. The device I'm having problems with had a single volume that was used as a CSV. This was presented to the servers under…
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SAN: How to determine amount of LUN and CSV

We have inherited Hyper-V environment (2008 R2) with SAN storage (HP4500 hardware). Two hosts and two SAN's for redundancy. Whilst I understand virtual machines well, I guess, my knowledge of storage is very weak. I am trying to understand how our…
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