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PowerShell advanced function (cmdlet) to get WWN (PWWN) of all cluster nodes
I wrote a very simple PowerShell script (Advanced Function) that will simplify process to add a new disk to any failover cluster (Hyper-V, SQL) that is connected to SAN via Fibre Channel. If you need WWN (PWWN) of all nodes in the cluster then you need to know only a name of a single node or name…
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Building Microsoft System Center Cloud – SCVMM 2012 R2 – Configuring Fabric – Hosts and Clusters
Fabric is composed from the servers, networks and storages. Hosts group At first we should add our hosts into the separate group. Group: Production Type any name you want. It can be for example name of your datacenter, name or number of the floor or name of the rack. Drag and drop managed hosts and clusters into…
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Building Microsoft System Center Cloud – SCVMM 2012 R2 – Add hosts and clusters to the Fabric
Add hosts to the fabric Now we can add our hosts (our cluster). Add Resources – Hyper-V Hosts and Clusters Use pre-created Run As Account. You should never add hosts using own user credentials or using VMM service account. Now you can search all machines in AD. Pick the whole cluster or standalone Hyper-V host. Default…
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Building Microsoft SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups – Part 2 – Create cluster and configure OS
Storage We do not need any clustered disk for this type of SQL cluster that we will create but unless you do not want to store all database data and logs on the C volume (not recommended in the production environment) you need enough local disks. In our case we do not need too many…
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Building guest (virtual) File Server Failover Cluster on Hyper-V host with Windows Server 2012 R2
Install guest (virtual) failover cluster Please continue to the Building guest (virtual) failover cluster series to learn how to create guest cluster from the virtual machines. Prerequisites Cluster: Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Two nodes Failover Clustering Storages Witness disk: One disk on a shared VHD or VHDX virtual disk Cluster disks: One or more disks…