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Microsoft Professional Advisory Services
I am sure many of you are aware that Microsoft provides several options for our customers in terms of support services. The Support website provides information about our support offerings. We have...
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Troubleshooting ‘Redirected Access’ on a Cluster Shared Volume (CSV)
Cluster shared Volumes (CSV) is a new feature implemented in Windows Server 2008 R2 to assist with new scale-up\out scenarios. CSV provides a scalable fault tolerant solution for clustered...
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CNO Blog Series: Increasing Awareness around the Cluster Name Object (CNO)
I am starting a 'CNO Blog Series', which will consist of blogs written by the CORE team cluster engineers and will focus primarily on the Cluster Name Object (CNO). The CNO is the computer object in...
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Logon Failures Involving Virtual Machines in Windows Server 2012
Welcome back to the CORE Team blog. The General Availability date for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 has come and gone, and we here on the CORE Team expect more of you will be diving in and taking...
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Just when you thought…..(Part 1)
Just when you thought you had things figured out - in the words of the legendary Bob Dylan, "the times they are a-changin." With the release of Windows Server 2012, Microsoft introduces a load of new...
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Just when you thought… (Part 2)
In Part 1, I covered configuring the Hyper-V Failover Cluster and the Scale-Out File Server solution. In Part two, I will cover:Creating the file shares in the Scale-Out File ServerCreating a virtual...
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Working with multiple network adapters in a virtual machine
Thanks for coming back to the CORE Team blog site. This blog will address working with multiple network adapters in a virtual machine. Many of you out there may not be interested in this because you...
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Adding a Pass-through Disk to a Highly Available Virtual Machine
This blog discusses the proper way to make a configuration change to a highly available virtual machine in a Windows Server 2008 (RTM) Failover Cluster. I will demonstrate how to add a Pass-through...
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Maximizing Limited Storage Resources in a Windows Server 2008 Failover Cluster
We have encountered scenarios where customers are implementing Windows Server 2008 Failover Clusters and they want to make quite a few services and applications highly available but, they are not able...
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Recovering a Deleted Cluster Name Object (CNO) in a Windows Server 2008...
Greetings once again from the support trenches here on the CORE team. I want to talk a bit about a Windows Server 2008 Failover Cluster issue that appears to be on the rise. What we are seeing is the...
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Top Issues for Microsoft Support for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V (Q3)
It is time to update everyone on the issues our support engineers have been seeing for Hyper-V for the past quarter. The issues are categorized below with the top issue(s) in each category listed with...
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Top Issues for Microsoft Support for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V (Q4)
It is time for the final installment of a year-long segment on the top issues in Hyper-V. It is appropriate since Windows Server 2008 R2 has finally released, and we can look forward to...
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Failover Cluster Validation Firewall Error in Windows Server 2008 R2
An issue involving a firewall configuration error in the cluster validation process just surfaced here in Microsoft Support so I thought I would post a quick blog in an effort to not only inform our...
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Resource Hosting Subsystem (RHS) In Windows Server 2008 Failover Clusters
In this blog, I would like to explore some of the inner-workings of the Resource Host Subsystem (RHS) which is responsible for monitoring the health of the various cluster resources being provided as...
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Using Pass-Through Disks in Conjunction with Clustered Shared Volumes (CSV)...
This blog is essentially an update, or follow-up if you will, to the original blog I wrote for Windows Server 2008 Failover Clustering. With the release of Windows Server 2008 R2 comes the ability to...
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Windows Server 2008 R2 Live Migration – “The devil may be in the networking...
Windows Server 2008 R2 has been publicly available now for only a short period of time, but we are already seeing a good adoption rate for the new Live Migration functionality as well as the new...
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Be Sure to Plan Carefully When Virtualizing Your Infrastructure
There is a lot of excitement around Microsoft virtualization technologies these days and rightfully so. One of the ‘hottest’ areas right now appears to be making virtual machines highly available...
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Windows Server 2008 Failover Clusters: Networking (Part 1)
The Windows Server 2008 Failover Clustering feature provides high availability for services and applications. To ensure applications and services remain highly available, it is imperative the cluster...
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Windows Server 2008 Failover Clusters: Networking (Part 2)
In Part 1, I discussed Windows Server 2008 Failover Cluster networking features. In this segment, I will discuss implementing networks in a Failover Cluster.Implementing networks in support of...
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Windows Server 2008 Failover Clusters: Networking (Part 3)
In Part 2, I discussed implementing networks in a Failover Cluster. In this final segment, I will discuss troubleshooting cluster networking issues.Troubleshooting cluster networking issuesAs...
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