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Configuring a File Share Witness on a Scale-Out File Server
In this blog, I am going to discuss the considerations for configuring a File Share Witness (FSW) for the Failover Cluster hosting your workloads, on a separate Scale-Out File Server cluster. You can...
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Deploying SQL Server 2014 with Cluster Shared Volumes
An exciting new feature in SQL Server 2014 is the support for the deployment of a Failover Cluster Instance (FCI) with Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV). In this blog, I am going to discuss the value of...
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Sessions at TechEd Houston 2014 from the Cluster team
The Cluster team presented multiple exciting sessions at the sold-out TechEd Houston from May 12-15th! If you didn’t get a chance to attend the conference in-person, the sessions are now posted online...
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Cluster Shared Volume Performance Counters
This is the third blog post in a series about Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV). In this post we will go over performance monitoring. We assume that reader is familiar with the previous blog posts. Blog...
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Planning Failover Cluster Node Sizing
In this blog I will discuss considerations on planning the number of nodes in a Windows Server Failover Cluster.Starting with Windows Server 2012, Failover Clustering can support to up 64-nodes in a...
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Symantec ApplicationHA for Hyper-V
In previous blogs I had discussed the Failover Clustering VM Monitoring feature adding in Windows Server 2012. You can find these blogs here and here. Below is a guest blog describing Symantec...
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Cluster Shared Volume Failure Handling
This is the fourth blog post in a series about Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV). In this post we will explain how CSV handles storage failures and how it hides failures from applications. This blog will...
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vNext Failover Clustering in Windows Server Technical Preview
Interested in the new features coming for Failover Clustering? I recently stopped over at Channel 9 and did an interview where we discussed some of the big clustering and availability features in...
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Introducing Cloud Witness
Available in release: Windows Server vNext Technical PreviewAuthor: Amitabh P Tamhane Senior Program Manager Microsoft Corp. Cloud Witness is a new type of Failover Cluster quorum witness being...
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Troubleshooting Cluster Shared Volume Auto-Pauses – Event 5120
In the previous post http://blogs.msdn.com/b/clustering/archive/2014/10/27/10567706.aspx we have discussed how CSVFS abstracts failures from applications by going through the pause/resume state machine...
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Troubleshooting Cluster Shared Volume Recovery Failure – System Event 5142
In the last post http://blogs.msdn.com/b/clustering/archive/2014/12/08/10579131.aspx we discussed event 5120, which indicates that Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) observed and error and attempted to...
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Failover Clustering Sessions @ Ignite 2015 in Chicago
If you are going to Ignite 2015 in Chicago next week, here are the cluster related sessions you might want to check out. We'll be talking about some exciting new enhancements coming in vNext. Weren't...
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Invitation: Provide feedback, comments, and vote on Cluster UserVoice page
The clustering team has a new UserVoice page here: http://windowsserver.uservoice.com/forums/295074-clustering that is part of the Windows Server UserVoice page:...
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Windows Server 2016 Failover Cluster Troubleshooting Enhancements - Cluster Log
Cluster Log Enhancements This is the first in a series of Blogs that will provide details about the improvements we have made in the tools and methods for troubleshooting Failover Clusters with Windows...
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Windows Server 2016 Failover Cluster Troubleshooting Enhancements - Active Dump
Active DumpThe following enhancement is not specific to Failover Cluster or even Windows Server. However, it has significant advantages when you are troubleshooting and getting memory.dmp files from...
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Testing Storage Spaces Direct using Windows Server 2016 virtual machines
Windows Server Technical Preview 2 introduces Storage Spaces Direct (S2D), which enables building highly available(HA) storage systems with local storage. This is a significant step forward in...
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Microsoft Virtual Academy – Learn Failover Clustering & Hyper-V
Would you like to learn how to deploy, manage, and optimize a Windows Server 2012 R2 failover cluster? The Microsoft Virtual Academy is a free training website for IT Pros with over 2.7 million...
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Virtual Machine Compute Resiliency in Windows Server 2016
In today’s cloud scale environments, commonly comprising of commodity hardware, transient failures have become more common than hard failures. In these circumstances, reacting aggressively to handle...
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Cluster Shared Volume - A Systematic Approach to Finding Bottlenecks
In this post we will discuss how to find if performance that you observe on a Cluster Shared Volume (CSV) is what you expect and how to find which layer in your solution may be the bottleneck. This...
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Workgroup and Multi-domain clusters in Windows Server 2016
In Windows Server 2012 R2 and previous versions, a cluster could only be created between member nodes joined to the same domain. Windows Server 2016 breaks down these barriers and introduces the...
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