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The cluster physical disk resource could not be brought online
Last week I found a very challenging issue on a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 database cluster. We were planning on doing some maintenance on a cluster. After we were done, we found out that not all...
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A Kerberos Error Message was received: on logon session
I’ve found some errors on the event log of a cluster node. The error said : “A Kerberos Error Message was received” and in the description field was the following: ”on logon session”. When searching...
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Availability – High Higher and Highest
What is High Availability? Is it Clustering? Is it Virtualization? Is it Cloud? It is all, yet neither. Let me explain… The term “High Availability” is commonly used to describe a service which has...
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Windows Clusters and Quorum configurations explained
When creating a cluster in Windows, the Failover Cluster Manager will indicate which quorum configuration best suits your configuration. The importance of this choice is often overlooked. Before we go...
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A day of troubleshooting the Unsupported Cluster Configuration status
Last weekend I was at a customer that was very enthusiastic about virtualizing their servers with Hyper-V. They immediately started to build their clusters and virtualized their servers. They were...
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Generate log files for all cluster nodes with a PowerShell one liner
Every once in a while I ‘m asked by a customer to troubleshoot issues on clusters (windows clusters or Hyper-V clusters… no difference for the purpose of this post). One of the first things I do is to...
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Rescan your disks with PowerShell
There are some basic tasks one needs to do every once in a while that can not be found in a GUI… for example rescanning your disks on a host when you’ve expanded it on your storage. Normally I would...
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Get-InstalledUpdates – List all installed updates and hotfixes
I recently got the task to inventory all installed updates and hotfixes on a bunch of cluster nodes. Yes, I could have gone through ‘Add/Remove Programs’ and created a list by hand… right? Are you...
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Get remote Best Practice Analyzer results through PowerShell
Today I received an email from a community member where he wrote that he was writing a PowerShell script that basically does the same thing at the Microsoft Best Practice Analyzer. Why? Couldn’t you...
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Where to find the latest version of my Healh Check PowerShell script(s)
As many of my readers now, last week I’ve finally released v1 of my AD Health Check PowerShell script. In the future newer versions will come out, with fixes and more checks. So, where can you find the...
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