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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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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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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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Tuesday, June 09, 2009 4:43 AM

Creating and Configuring a Generic Service Resource

With Windows Server 2008 (and R2) Failover Clustering you can make almost anything highly-available. This does not only include programs and applications, but you can make any service running on the cluster highly available – even if it is custom or from
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Monday, June 01, 2009 6:20 AM

Deploying IIS on a Failover Cluster

Hi cluster fans , Our general recommendation for achieving high-availability of Internet Information Services (IIS) servers is by using Network Load Balancing (NLB) since the servers tend to be hosts for stateless requests – a customer will visit a website,
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Tuesday, May 26, 2009 6:43 PM

High-Availability Education from Hyper-V and Exchange

Hi cluster fans, Our partners on the Exchange and Hyper-V team have recently published some great resources to improve your high-availability knowledge. Hyper-V: Free Training Microsoft is offering some free training for Hyper-V which includes modules
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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?
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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
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Thursday, May 07, 2009 8:02 AM

Cluster Resources

Hi Cluster Fans, Resources can be hard to find, so every few months we will be publishing an updated list of useful documents, guides and information to this blog ( http://blogs.msdn.com/clustering/ ). If there is any other useful Microsoft content which
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Saturday, May 02, 2009 12:36 AM

Cluster Validation: Missing hotfixes display only the GUID

Hi Cluster fans, In Windows Server 2008 Failover Clustering the “Validate a Configuration…” tool was introduced which analyzes all components of the cluster to ensure it will work after deployment. One of the tests will inventory the updates/QFEs/hotfixes
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