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Microsoft Cluster Server (MSCS) allows Windows Server computers to work together as a computer cluster, to provide failover and increased availability of applications, or parallel calculating power in case of high-performance computing (HPC) clusters.

Microsoft Cluster Server (MSCS) allows Windows Server computers to work together as a computer cluster, to provide failover and increased availability of applications, or parallel calculating power in case of high-performance computing (HPC) clusters.

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experience with using SS on Windows 2016 MSCS VMware Virtual machines

After reading multiple documentations around setting up a MS 2016 Fail-over Cluster with Storage Spaces on VMware ESX it seems that this configuration is not supported but it only says server 2012 and above. I am looking for people's advice with…
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Failover cluster failed to failover due to mysterious IP conflict?

I'm having a mysterious problem with my Failover cluster, Cluster name: PrintCluster01.domain.com Members: PrintServer01.domain.com andPrintServer02.domain.com in the Failover Cluster Management – Cluster Event I received the Critical error…
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Prevent iSCSI connection from being terminated early on reboot

I have a clustered Hyper-V environment with four nodes and three PowerVault MD3xxx storage arrays for shared storage. The servers are using standard Ethernet connections for the iSCSI fabric (not HBAs). MPIO is configured via the Dell storage…
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Where does Microsoft Cluster Service store its cluste resource settings?

Windows Server 2008 Cluster Service appears to store settings for its resources somewhere that allow them to travel from node to node. Where is that information stored?
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windows-server-2003 missing logical drives after HBA SAS card was replaced

Both servers run windows-server-2003 x64 in a Active/Standby Microsoft Cluster with shared Disk Resources. Server1 Server2 Server1 suffered hardware issues needing HBA SAS card replaced. Disk Management no longer detects the shared logical drives on…
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Cluster Shared Volume on ESXi 5.5

Our organization runs ESXi 5.5 on three hosts, 8x1Gb NICs, and a 6Gbps DAS using shared SAS to each host. All Windows VMs (2008R2+). We have a proprietary in-house application that was designed to run on local disk storage, but recent architectural…
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2 node 2008R2 cluster service won't start when just one node is booted

I'm a new to MSCS and I'm trying to understand something that recently happened. We have a 2 node 2008 R2 cluster using a witness disk (node and disk majority) over iSCSI SAN. I've read over some documentation on MSCS clusters and how they deal…
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MSSQL 2012 cluster - inactive node trying to access shared disk?

I've got an odd issue with a SQL 2012 cluster. The cluster itself uses FC shared storage, and generally works perfectly. The SQL service works, and failover occurs as expected. The issue I have is that the inactive node occasionally tries to access…
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SQLServerAgent could not be started (reason: Unable to connect to server ) Error 103?

Does anyone know how to make the second SQL instance Agent working on the same MSCS SQL Server 2008 R2 cluster? In the clustered SQL Server service instance2 i have assigned the same service account to start all of the other service in for…
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How do I get a complete list of all Windows AD computer accounts that are part of a cluster group in my AD domain?

Regardless of whether they are active nodes or passive nodes, how do we get a list of all Windows AD computer accounts in a cluster group? Using the PowerShell module:…
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How to implement Peer to peer database replication between two sites?

I am looking for SQL Server database solution which can replicate data between two sites vice versa (not just one way) I’ve looked into SQL Server failover cluster (MSCS) but then since I have two different sites (Production and DR) it would be to…
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root\MsCluster - The WMI provider returned an 'access denied' error

I have prepared the non-administrator user for collecting data using WMI. I can query any namespace using this user except root/MSCluster. For root/MSCluster it returns 'access denied'. At the same time, I can successfully query it using domain…
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