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How to Configure Clustered Tasks with Windows Server 2012
Many customers use the Windows Task Scheduler to perform regularly scheduled maintenance tasks on their servers, to run audit checks, generate reports, and even updating application data caches. A task...
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How to Configure a Clustered Storage Space in Windows Server 2012
This blog outlines the sequence of steps to configure a Clustered Storage Space in Windows Server 2012 using the Failover Cluster Manager or Windows PowerShell®. You can learn more about Storage Spaces...
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Failover Cluster Sessions at TechEd Orlando 2012 and TechEd Amsterdam 2012
There were several exciting sessions at the sold-out TechEd Orlando from June 10-14th on Failover Clustering! If you didn’t get a chance to attend the conference in-person, the sessions are now...
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How to Move Highly Available (Clustered) VMs to Windows Server 2012 with the...
The Windows Server 2012 Cluster Migration Wizard is a powerful and time-saving tool that copies cluster roles from a source cluster to a target cluster. Although the Cluster Migration Wizard can move...
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How to Configure BitLocker Encrypted Clustered Disks in Windows Server 2012
Windows Server 2012 introduces the ability to encrypt Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) using BitLocker®. You can learn more about BitLocker in Windows Server 2012 here. Data on a lost or stolen storage is...
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MSMQ Errors in the Cluster.log
After using the Get-ClusterLog cmdlet to generate the Cluster.log, you may notice the following errors in the cluster log:ERR [RHS] s_RhsRpcCreateResType: ERROR_NOT_READY(21)' because of 'Startup...
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Optimizing CSV Backup Performance
Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) is a clustered file system available in Windows Server 2012 where all nodes in a Windows Server Failover Cluster can simultaneously access a common shared NTFS volume. CSV...
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Validate Storage Spaces Persistent Reservation Test Results with Warning
I have seen questions from customers who get a warning in the results of their failover cluster validation that indicates the storage doesn’t support persistent reservations for Storage Spaces. They...
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Failover Clustering Sessions @ TechEd 2013
If you were not able to make it to TechEd 2013 this year, you can still watch the sessions and learn about the new enhancements coming. Here’s links to the recorded cluster sessions at TechEd...
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How to Properly Shutdown a Failover Cluster or a Node
This blog will discuss the proper process for shutting down an individual node in a Windows Server 2012 R2 Failover Cluster or the entire cluster with all the nodes. Note: While the steps outlined...
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Windows Server 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Recovery from Network Disconnects
OverviewWindows Server Failover Clustering has always monitored the running state of virtual machines and the health state of clustered network and clustered storage. We are furthering the failure...
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Server Virtualization w/ Windows Server Hyper-V & System Center Jump Start
Add Hyper-V to your server virtualization skillset and improve your career options: Register for this free course, led by Microsoft experts Symon Perriman and Corey Hynes: Server Virtualization w/...
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Decoding Bugcheck 0x0000009E
In the System event log you may find an event similar to the following:Event ID 1001 Source: Microsoft-Windows-WER-SystemErrorReporting Description: The computer has rebooted from a...
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Cluster Shared Volume (CSV) Inside Out
In this blog we will take a look under the hood of the cluster file system in Windows Server 2012 R2 called Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV). This blog post is targeted at developers and ISV’s who are...
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Understanding the state of your Cluster Shared Volumes in Windows Server 2012 R2
Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) is the clustered file system for the Microsoft Private cloud, first introduced in Windows Server 2008 R2. In Windows Server 2012, we radically improved the CSV...
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Understanding the Repair Active Directory Object Recovery Action
One of the responsibilities of cluster Network Name resource is to rotate the password of the computer object in Active Directory associated with it. When the Network Name resource is online, it will...
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How to Run ChkDsk and Defrag on Cluster Shared Volumes in Windows Server 2012 R2
Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) is a layer of abstraction on either the ReFS or NTFS file system (which is used to format the underlying private cloud storage). Just as with a non-CSV volume, at times it...
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Event ID 5120 in System Event Log
When conducting backups of a Windows Server 2012 or later Failover Cluster using Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV), you may encounter the following event in the System event log:Log Name: SystemSource:...
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Cluster Shared Volume Diagnostics
This is the second blog post in a series about Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV). In this post we will go over diagnostics. We assume that reader is familiar with the previous blog post that explains CSV...
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Failover Clustering and IPv6 in Windows Server 2012 R2
In this blog, I will discuss some common questions pertaining to IPv6 and Windows Server 2012 R2 Failover Clusters.What network protocol does Failover Clustering default to?If both IPv4 and IPv6 are...
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