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Wednesday, October 28, 2009 4:24 AM

PowerShell for NLB: Part 1: Getting Started

Hi NLB Fans, NLB provides users with various methods to manage clusters. In Windows Server 2008, there are 3 ways to manage an NLB cluster: 1. Network Load balancing Manager GUI (nlbmgr.exe) 2. NLB command line tool (Nlb.exe) 3. NLB WMI Provider (root\MicrosoftNLB
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009 5:30 AM

Network Load Balancing in R2: Extended Affinity

Hello! I am Rohan Mutagi. My job at Microsoft is to do something that everyone likes: criticize others J , specifically, other people’s code. Yes, I am a tester and it’s my role to find bugs in Network Load Balancing (NLB). Over the next few months I
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Friday, October 16, 2009 7:41 PM

PowerShell for Failover Clustering: Finding the Drive Letter

Hi cluster scripting fans, I often find myself looking for the drive letter(s) for a physical disk resource in a PowerShell console/script. After a bit of investigation, here is a way to do that using Cluster WMI through PowerShell: $DiskResourceName
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009 5:14 AM

PowerShell for Failover Clustering: Let’s Rename a Few Things

Hi Cluster fans, In this blog post, I’ll walk you through how to rename a couple of objects in your failover clusters using the new PowerShell CMDlets we’ve introduced in Windows Server 2008 R2. Trying to rename a cluster group in the GUI is easy, just
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Friday, September 11, 2009 2:17 AM

PowerShell for Failover Clustering: Changing Values of a Cluster Object

Hi, This post will discuss changing values of cluster objects using PowerShell in Windows Server 2008 R2. For resources and other components in a cluster, every cluster object has properties (common property). Parameters (private properties) are optional
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Saturday, August 15, 2009 12:45 AM

PowerShell for Failover Clustering: Read-Only Cluster Access

Hi cluster fans, Amongst the list of new features we introduced in Windows Server 2008 R2 Failover Clustering is “read-only cluster access”. Before Windows Server 2008 R2, you were either given full control on the cluster or no control at all. If you
Posted by msclustm | 0 Comments
Wednesday, July 22, 2009 7:23 AM

Failover Clusters, Performance Counters, and PowerShell

Hi Clustering and Scripting fans, If you’ve done any work with PowerShell v1.0 or v2.0, you have probably realized by now how rich the library of cmdlets is. There are a ton of cmdlets that allow you to automate almost any and everything across the system
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Thursday, June 25, 2009 7:16 AM

PowerShell Remoting and the “Double-Hop” Problem

The “Double-Hop” Problem Most of the newly added PowerShell cmdlets (“command-lets”) in Windows Server 2008 R2 allow easy remote execution by including the -Cluster parameter to indicate the target cluster. However there are occasions when this capability
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Saturday, May 23, 2009 5:29 AM

PowerShell for Failover Clustering: Frequently Asked Questions & Enabling CSV

Hi, Today I’m going to talk a little more about PowerShell by answering some of the frequently asked questions I hear. 1) Why is PowerShell better? 2) How do I get started using PowerShell? 3) Where are the properties? 4) Where are the private properties?
Posted by msclustm | 5 Comments
Thursday, May 21, 2009 5:39 AM

PowerShell for Failover Clustering: Getting Started

Hi Cluster Fans, Amongst the long list of features that is being added in Windows Server R2, Clustering team is also providing a set of PowerShell cmdlets (“command-lets”) to manage your Failover Cluster. Hopefully this is not news for most cluster administrators
Posted by msclustm | 7 Comments
Thursday, April 16, 2009 8:47 AM

Clustering is coming to TechEd L.A.

Hi Cluster Fans, The Clustering & High-Availability team will be coming to TechEd, Los Angeles in May ( website ). We hope some of you can see our sessions and demo Failover Clustering in Windows Server 2008 R2 as a Hands-on-Lab. The cluster team
Posted by msclustm | 3 Comments
Friday, December 26, 2008 7:05 PM

PowerShell for Network Load Balancing (NLB) in Windows Server 2008 R2

Hi Cluster Fans, In Windows Server 2008 R2 (“R2”) we are introducing PowerShell as the new scripting language for clustering technologies. PowerShell with Network Load Balancing (NLB) will replace NLB.exe and WLBS.exe. The Windows Server 2008 R2 release
Posted by msclustm | 7 Comments
Saturday, December 20, 2008 3:21 AM

PowerShell for Failover Clustering in Windows Server 2008 R2

Hi Cluster Fans, In Windows Server 2008 R2 (“R2”) we are introducing PowerShell as the new scripting language for clustering technologies. PowerShell with Failover Clustering will replace Cluster.exe and the Windows Server 2008 R2 release will be the
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