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Wednesday, November 04, 2009 11:18 PM

Microsoft Site Recovery Solutions Featuring Windows Server 2008 R2 Failover Clustering

Hi cluster fans, This week Microsoft is launching an end-to-end solution to help customers deploy integrated Site Recovery Solutions ( http://blogs.technet.com/virtplanet/ ). This launch shows how Microsoft and partners like HP, EMC, HDS, NetApp, DataCore,
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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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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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Thursday, October 08, 2009 7:14 PM

Clustered Hyper-V Upgrades from Server 2008 to Server 2008 R2

Hi Cluster Fans, We’ve just published documentation describing the upgrade path for clustered VMs on 2008 Failover Clusters to 2008 R2 Failover Clusters. Hyper-V Upgrades: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957256 This complements our other migration documentation
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Monday, September 28, 2009 8:45 PM

Creating and Configuring a Generic Script Resource

Hi, In recent posts I discussed how to create and configure Generic Applications and Generic Services . In this post I will talk about creating the third of our generic containers, Generic Scripts. What is Generic Script Resource Type? The Generic Script
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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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Friday, September 04, 2009 7:55 AM

Failover Clustering Performance Counters - Part 1

Hi Cluster Fans, In Windows Server 2008 R2 we have added performance counters for Failover Clustering. Performance counters are like meters you have on some devices in your house. For instance, your electrical or water meter tracks what utilities you
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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
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009 4:52 PM

Resource Group Management Enhancements in 2008 R2 Failover Clustering – Part 2

Hi, The first post in this series looked at two changes that have been implemented in Windows Server 2008 R2 Failover Clustering to improve group distribution and resource load balancing amongst nodes, so that each node is more likely to receive an equal
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009 2:25 AM

Resource Group Management Enhancements in 2008 R2 Failover Clustering – Part 1

In Windows Server 2008 R2 Failover Clustering, some changes have been made and new features added with regard to group placement and resource load balancing. These changes make it easier to manage clustered Hyper-V virtual machines, as well as other clustered
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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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Friday, July 17, 2009 7:15 AM

DNS Registration with the Network Name Resource

Hi Cluster Fans, In this post we will discuss some of the implementation details around the Network Name (“NetName”) resource and its behavior in Windows Server 2008 R2. Introduction The purpose of Network Name is to allow clients to be able to resolve
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Saturday, June 27, 2009 2:08 AM

What is RHS and what does it do?

In Window Server 2008 Failover Clustering, the team invested significant time into making clustering easier. In the Windows Server 2008 R2 release we have continued down that path, adding several troubleshooting enhancements. One of the important aspects
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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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