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Site-aware Failover Clusters in Windows Server 2016
Windows Server 2016, debuts the birth of site-aware clusters. Nodes in stretched clusters can now be grouped based on their physical location (site). Cluster site-awareness enhances key operations...
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Hyper-converged with Windows Server 2016
Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 3 just recently released, and one of the big hot features which has me really excited is Storage Spaces Direct (S2D). With S2D you will be able to create a...
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Configuring site awareness for your multi-active disaggregated datacenters
In a previous blog,I discussed the introduction of site-aware Failover Clusters in Windows Server 2016. In this blog, I am going to walk through how you can configure site-awareness for your...
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How can we improve the installation and patching of Windows Server? (Survey...
Do you want your server OS deployment and servicing to move faster? We're a team of Microsoft engineers who want your experiences and ideas around solving real problems of deploying and servicing your...
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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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Site-aware Failover Clusters in Windows Server 2016
Windows Server 2016, debuts the birth of site-aware clusters. Nodes in stretched clusters can now be grouped based on their physical location (site). Cluster site-awareness enhances key operations...
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Hyper-converged with Windows Server 2016
Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 3 just recently released, and one of the big hot features which has me really excited is Storage Spaces Direct (S2D). With S2D you will be able to create a...
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Configuring site awareness for your multi-active disaggregated datacenters
In a previous blog,I discussed the introduction of site-aware Failover Clusters in Windows Server 2016. In this blog, I am going to walk through how you can configure site-awareness for your...
View ArticleHow can we improve the installation and patching of Windows Server? (Survey...
Do you want your server OS deployment and servicing to move faster? We’re a team of Microsoft engineers who want your experiences and ideas around solving real problems of deploying and servicing your...
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Managing Failover Clusters with 5nine Manager
Hi Cluster Fans, It is nice to be back on the Cluster Team Blog! After founding this blog and working closely with the cluster team for almost eight years, I left Microsoft last year to join a Hyper-V...
View ArticleTroubleshooting Hangs Using Live Dump
In this blog post https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/clustering/2014/12/08/troubleshooting-cluster-shared-volume-auto-pauses-event-5120/ we discussed what a Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) event ID 5120...
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Failover Cluster Node Fairness in Windows Server 2016
Windows Server 2016 introduces the Node Fairness feature to optimize the utilization of nodes in a Failover Cluster. During the lifecycle of your private cloud, certain operations (such as rebooting a...
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Speeding Up Failover Tips-n-Tricks
From time-to-time people ask me for suggestions on what tweaks they can do to make Windows server Failover Cluster failover faster. In this blog I’ll discuss a few tips-n-tricks. Disable NetBIOS over...
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NetFT Virtual Adapter Performance Filter
In this blog I will discuss what the NetFT Virtual Adapter Performance Filter is and the scenarios when you should or should not enable it. The Microsoft Failover Cluster Virtual Adapter (NetFT) is a...
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Using PowerShell script make any application highly available
Author: Amitabh Tamhane Senior Program Manager Windows Server Microsoft OS releases: Applicable to Windows Server 2008 R2 or later Now you can use PowerShell scripts to make any application highly...
View ArticleFailover Clustering @ Ignite 2016
I am packing my bags getting ready for Ignite 2016 in Atlanta, and I thought I would post all the cluster and related sessions you might want to check out. See you there! If you couldn’t make it to...
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