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Multiple Quorum Disk Witnesses in Windows Failover Clustering?

I believe that I have a need to have 2 separate disk witnesses, but am having trouble finding anything that gives any advice or shows any examples. If anyone can provide some constructive advice, I ...
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Adding IPv6 address to Windows Failover Cluster yields empty SMB share

I have a Windows Failover Cluster set up with a file Server. There are two nodes and two networks. Network 1 used for LAN SMB access and Network 2 used for private SMB storage for a bunch of Hyper-V ...
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Azure datacenter 2019 failover cluster unresponsive after reboot only when shared disk is assigned CSV

We're seeing some really strange behaviour with a 2 node cluster on azure 2019 datacenter. We didn't see the issue right away but at some point it started happening and now we can repeat it. We have ...
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How to get an IP address for MS SQL Cluster network configuration?

I just started a new internship and have been tasked to set up a SQL failover cluster. They gave me 3 virtual machines to use and when I started I knew nothing. I've been doing a lot of research the ...
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Unzipping to general file share is slow on azure shared disk. Clustered windows server 2019

I have a file share server running on an azure VM cluster. Copying already existing files to the file share gets really good speed. Averaging about 60 MBps. So if I copy a file from a local machine ...
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Add Node to Fail-over Cluster Failing to Communicate over 3343

We have an existing Windows 2012 2 node cluster with file witness, but are replacing them with 2019 servers. So we can just reuse the existing cluster object, we're adding the 2019 servers to the ...
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Can't mount a NFS share on File server rule running in Windows Failover Cluster

On Microsoft Windows Failover Cluster (Windows Server 2019 Datacenter) I've created a File Server role and created a NFS share (similar to how it's described in these instructions). The idea was to ...
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Stretch Cluster File Server with Storage Replica - Partnership not reversing on failure simulation

First off, sorry if this is the wrong place to post this. I have a Storage Replica setup running in a MSCS Stretch Cluster configuration, two sets of two VMs with each set running on a separate ESXi ...
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Bring Windows Failover Cluster On-Line with only One Node

I would like to set a policy such that my Failover Cluster will always come into service, even if only one (of the two nodes) is available. Background: I have only two nodes in the cluster, plus a ...
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Windows Failover Cluster With SQL Server

We are moving away from using VMWare over to Windows Failover Cluster (version 2019) to host our company services. I have successfully configured WFC and have a few Virtual-Machine roles running along ...
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NetFT - Validation Failed - SMB Network Path Not Found

Two new Windows Server 2019 Datacenter edition servers setup in a Failover Cluster, cluster validation is failing at 'Validate CSV Settings' as follows: Validating Server Message Block (SMB) share ...
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Failed to map guest I/O buffer for write access with status 0xC0000044 Hyper-V-StorageVSP Event ID 8

Full Error information: Error 8/9/2021 10:35:11 AM Hyper-V-StorageVSP 8 None Failed to map guest I/O buffer for write access with status 0xC0000044. Device name = d:\vms\servername\virtual ...
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Windows Server 2019 2 node failover cluster offline after some reboot

I have 2 windows server 2019 on VirtualBox. I have configured the failover cluster and it's working. I'm testing the failover and failback. These are the steps I have done after completing the ...
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Windows Disk Event 11: 'The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk1\DR1.' for all offline Cluster Storage Disks

I'm using several Windows Server 2019 Clusters (e. g. Hyper-V, File Server). On all machines that have clustered roles, I get the following errors (with different harddisk numbers): Log Name: System ...
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Mac address flapping during VM migration in WSFC

I am trying to troubleshoot an issue with our servers on a customer network. We do not support the network infrastructure. For example, I have 2 nodes(WS2019) in the Failover Cluster. Each NODE have 2 ...
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Print Server Redundancy in VMware ESXi

I'm having a challenge figuring out the best way to get the highest possible uptime on my 2 print servers. The best solution would be if one of the servers function as my primary print server, and the ...
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Hyper-V Cluster 2019 suggestion for requirements [closed]

We are planning to purchase nodes for the Hyper-V Cluster which will run on Windows Server 2019. Which chipset you recommend for cluster 2019? What is your recommendation for PCIe Cards? Should all ...
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WinRM connection refused but not to FQDN

I have 2 domain joined servers running a failover cluster and I am trying to get CAU running. However, the readiness test fails because of WinRM issues. Both servers get connection refused when using ...
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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 ...
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Nested Virtualization and CSV issues in Hyper-V server Cluster Failover

I have 3 Windows server 2019 VMs,virtualized on Windows 10 pro. (MAIN HOST) server 1 is AD/DC/ISCSI target/DNS/DHCP. server 2 and 3 formed a failover Hyper-V Cluster and this cluster hosts a ...
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Quorum disk size for Windows Server 2019 failover cluster

I'm setting up a Windows Server 2019 failover cluster, and I've seen advice to put the cluster quorum on its own LUN. How much disk space should I dedicate to it? It does not appear to take much ...
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