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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 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…
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Building guest (virtual) Failover Cluster on Hyper-V host with Windows Server 2012 R2 – Part 2 – Install and configure cluster
Prerequisites of Failover Clustering Domain join Join to the domain. PowerShell $domain = ‘ad.contoso.com’ $userName = ‘UserWithPermissionsToAddComputerIntoDomain’ $password = ‘Your-Password’ | ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText -Force $login = ‘{0}\{1}’ -f $domain, $userName $credential = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential($login, $password) Add-Computer -DomainName $domain -Credential $credential -Restart Configure storage Online all disks on all nodes. Initialize and format disks on one…
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Building guest (virtual) Failover Cluster on Hyper-V host with Windows Server 2012 R2 – Part 1 – Create virtual machines
This article will guide you through how to build guest (virtual) cluster using Hyper-V on Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2. Functional Failover Clustering is the first step before installation of clustered File Server or AlwaysOn Failover Cluster Instance on Microsoft SQL Server etc. You can use this guide on a single Hyper-V host or on the Hyper-V…
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Implementing Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V Failover Cluster – Part 7 – Installation of the first VM directly into HA
This article is not part of the Building Microsoft System Center Cloud series but we will use the new cluster to host our VMs in the cloud series. The cluster is now configured and we can continue with installation of the virtual machine that will be our the most widely used VM. It will be…