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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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Tuesday, November 10, 2009 6:23 AM

Failover Clustering Performance Counters – Part 4 – Command Line

Hi Cluster Fans, Most of you are familiar with the Performance Monitor that allows you to work with performance counters. Details have been described in the three previous posts in the series: Part 1 , Part 2 and Part 3 . Using the command line, there
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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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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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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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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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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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Friday, August 21, 2009 8:55 AM

Failover Clustering & NLB Documents and Resources

Hi Cluster Fans, Resources can be hard to find, so every few months we will be publishing an updated list of over 300 useful documents, guides, information and utilities to this blog ( http://blogs.msdn.com/clustering/ ). If there is any other useful
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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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