Windows server 2012 failover cluster network not working

I had a problem in a network interface of my failover cluster. This cluster is made of 2 nodes and each node has 3 network intefarces, the hearbeat (cross-cable), the lan network and another dedicated interface for virtual machines. Both heartbeat and lan network are clustered. Yesterday both nodes became unpingable for inside and outside … Read more

Exchange 2007 two node cluster setup on Windows 2008 Enterprise, install error

I am installing Microsoft Exchange 2007 x64 in a two node environment using Microsoft Windows 2008 Enterprise x64. The Failover Cluster is all setup properly and following best practices for setting up the windows clustering for use with Exchange 2007. All the validation tests pass on the cluster and all of that portion is working … Read more

Oracle on windows cluster with online/offline IPs

I have a windows cluster (on windows 2008 server) with nodes in different subnets. So cluster has two IPs, one for each node (I’m talking not about node IP, but about cluster IP). One is online, the other is offline. Is it possible to run Oracle Fail Safe on this configuration? I’ve tried to install … Read more

Can I Configure a Majority and File Share Quorum Where the File Share is Accessed Over the Internet?

I have a 2-site geographically dispersed Cluster setup and have 1 node in each site. Both sites are connected with FC for large volume synchronous data replication and high-bandwidth network availability. As I understand the best quorum configuration for this setup is Majority and File Share Quorum, and the File Share must reside in a … Read more

Upgrading 32-bit SQL Server cluster to 64-bit

Here is my situation. $WORK has a trio of three clustered database servers (64-bit Server 2003) that are currently running two SQL Server instances. Unfortunately, when the cluster was set up a couple years ago my organization did not have 64-bit SQL Server licenses, so we installed the 32-bit version of SQL Server 2005 Enterprise … Read more

NTFS permissions for a user on another computer in case of a disk moving in a cluster?

Is there a way to set NTFS permissions for a user on another computer? I have two nodes in a failover cluster. Both have a specific user account (“charley”) local to the node. Charley has files on a disk that is part of a cluster group and in the case of a failover will move … Read more