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Friday, November 20, 2009 8:48 AM

PowerShell Help Online & Management Pack Updates for Failover Clustering & NLB

Hi Cluster Fans, We have added Windows Server 2008 R2 PowerShell help on TechNet and have updated our Management Packs to support 2008 R2 for System Center Operation Manager (SCOM), for both Failover Clustering and Network Load Balancing. PowerShell Help
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Saturday, October 24, 2009 3:08 AM

Failover Clustering Performance Counters – Part 3 – Examples

Hi cluster fans, This third post in our series about Failover Clustering Performance Counters will give some practical examples of how to use this new Windows Server 2008 R2 feature to help troubleshoot your cluster. In Part 1 of this blog series we discussed
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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 [Update: 11/12/09] A new cluster migration
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Friday, October 02, 2009 5:32 AM

Failover Clustering Performance Counters - Part 2

Hi Cluster Fans, In Part 1 of this blog series we discussed Performance Counters and their interaction with the Network, Multicast Request Reply, Global Update Manager and Database clustering components. This post will look at monitoring some additional
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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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Wednesday, September 02, 2009 8:00 AM

Failover Clustering Upgrade Path from WS08 R2 RC to WS08 R2 RTM

Hi cluster fans, Many of you have been using the Release Candidate (RC) of Windows Server 2008 R2 and want to move to the Release to Manufacturing (RTM) build. This guide will walk you through the upgrade path which uses the “Migrate a Cluster Wizard”
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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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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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Friday, June 12, 2009 8:26 AM

Rolling Upgrade to Windows Server 2008 SP2 Failover Clustering

Hi Cluster Fans, Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 (SP2) is now available for download on the web! This blog post will walk you through performing a “rolling upgrade” from Windows Server 2008 RTM to Windows Server 2008 SP2. A rolling upgrade allows you
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