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A computer cluster consists of a set of connected computers that work together, and thus can be viewed and operated as a single system in many respects. A Windows cluster is such a set of computers running a Windows operating system. This feature has been available since NT 4.0.

A computer cluster consists of a set of connected computers that work together, and thus can be viewed and operated as a single system in many respects. A Windows cluster is such a set of computers running a Windows operating system. This feature has been available since NT 4.0.

Microsoft has three technologies for clustering: Microsoft Cluster Service (MSCS), Component Load Balancing (CLB) (part of Application Center 2000), and Network Load Balancing Services (NLB). In Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 the MSCS service has been renamed to Windows Server Failover Clustering and the Component Load Balancing (CLB) feature has been deprecated.

As with clusters running other operating systems, there are different types of clusters, with two primary variants.

Failover clusters are designed for high availability services and typically have a subset of the cluster "active" at any one time, while the rest are in a hot standby state, ready to take over in the event of a failure.

Parallel clusters are designed for high performance, and typically have all the members active at all times, to achieve more computations at a time. Modern supercomputers are all clustered systems, which are used to perform calculations that would take too long to be feasible on independent systems.

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What are the exact storage requirements for an AlwaysOn implementation?

We're investigating implementation options for SQL Server AlwaysOn. AlwaysOn is dependant on Windows Clustering, and I have read several articles that state shared storage is no longer a requirement for clustering. I have also read several articles…
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Windows Cluster IP/Hostname doesn't respond to UNC requests, yet ping and RDP work

I have a Windows Server 2003 cluster of 2 nodes in an active-passive configuration. I can ping both nodes, rdp and access their unc shares. I also have an alias, which directs to a cluster IP set in one of the cluster groups for SQL. (I'm not the…
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Windows Server 2008 R2 cluster configuration with odd number of nodes

My shop is putting together a three-node cluster for use as a Hyper-V host for our customer. Previous installations we did for this customer only had two nodes per cluster, so we did Node and Disk Majority. Easy enough. But now that we're moving…
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Directories created by XP and Win-7 clients aren't visible to each other

We have a user who has found an interesting misbehavior on our file-serving cluster. He was able to create a directory on his home directory using WinXP and not have it be visible by a Win7 machine. This goes both ways, he was able to create one…
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SQL server failover clustering

How many failover clustered nodes can you have?, and if you add more and more nodes, is it going to slow down?
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Network Share on File Server Cluster being Interrupted

When I perform heavy disk operations, like deleting 10k files at a time, the network share becomes unresponsive and won't serve out files for a short time. Here's my configuration. I have a failover file server cluster composed of two Windows 2008…
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Intermittent unavailability of an instance in a failover cluster while a standby node is offline in a SQL Server 2008 failover cluster

I've got a small failover cluster that I run for the websites my company has. During a RAM upgrade of the standby server, our websites started to show errors about not being able to access the database server. I verified that the instance was indeed…
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Routing to a Terminal Services Cluster

I am trying to connect to a Load Balanced Windows 2008 R2 cluster using Remote Desktop Services. I have no trouble connecting to the the Servers' IP addresses (.253.16 and .253.17) or the Cluster address (.253.20) from inside the subnet (.253). The…
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Disks showing up under Disk Management but not under Get-PhysicalDisk

I have a 2 node Windows server 2019 Cluster running on Vmware ESXi 6.5 I added 3 25GB disks to the server after it had been created. I can see the 3 disks in the disk management tool If I run Get-PhysicalDisk it will only list one disk If I run…
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Can I rename a Windows failover cluster virtual network name AD object

I have a new Windows 2019 Failover Cluster. I enabled the Automatic Cluster Aware Update feature, and this is functioning correctly. It created a Computer object in AD called CAUBORG6cx. Am I able to rename this (and others autocreated for other…
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Unable to add new 2019 HyperV node to 2012R2 HyperV Cluster

I could really use some help here. I evicted an failed HyperV node from our 2 node 2012R2 Hyper-V cluster. The node has been rebuilt with server 2019 and am trying to re-inject it back into the cluster. NOTE1: The host was rebuilt using the same…
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Set up MS cluster 2016 with multi forest domain

i am trying to set up a two node MS cluster 2016 with cross forest. currently i am having two separate domains and having trust between domains. like a.com and b.com domains and trust enabled between them. One server is in a.com and another server…
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What is the least number of servers I need to deploy a Exchange 2007 CCR (Clustered Continuois Replication) cluster?

I've read that at the very least to get an Exchange 2007 CCR cluster for fail over redundancy, you need 2 servers running Exchange 2007 Ent and a 3rd server of any type as long as its running any Windows Server 2003 OS (for the file share witness). …
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Where to put the witness disk in Windows Failover Cluster?

I have built a Windows Failover Cluster but I am really confused about in which network should the Witness reside? In my current configuration the Witness is in the Heartbeat network.
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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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