Questions tagged [cluster-shared-volumes]

Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) is a feature in Windows Server in which shared disks are concurrently accessible to all nodes within a failover cluster. The feature was first introduced in Windows Server 2008 R2 as a way to simplify storage with clustered Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs).

Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) is a feature in Windows Server in which shared disks are concurrently accessible to all nodes within a failover cluster. The feature was first introduced in Windows Server 2008 R2 as a way to simplify storage with clustered Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs).

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Is ReFS ready to host production VHDXs on Hyper-V 2012 r2 clusters?

One of the new features that I didn't see listed in all the "Windows Server 2012 r2" posts is that Clustering now supports CSVs that are formatted with ReFS. So, naturally, I would like to change the CSVs where I store the VHDX files to be ReFS. But…
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glusterfs: failed to get the 'volume file' from server

I have a GlusterFS volume hosted on a remote fileserver. I can mount the volume from my webservers in the same DC as well as other servers in other DCs however when I try to mount the volume on my local dev server the mount fails with the following…
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Miserable performance of Hyper-V storage on CSV

I recently setup a new environment consisting of: - QSAN Storage with 10Gib network - Mellanox switches 10Gib - 4 x Physical nodes connect to LAN and SAN 10Gib The physical hosts are connected using MPIO to the SAN storage, performance tests were…
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Changing 'disk ID' of Windows GPT disk via Linux

I have a SAN level snapshot\clone of a Windows cluster shared volume (CSV) whocj i want to mount on the same cluster to retrieve files, as form of backup. As detailed here: Accessing a storage-side snapshot of a cluster-shared volume ... there…
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Mapping SAN to cluster nodes

I have mapped a block of space from SAN to 3 cluster nodes (2012r2)as below: 2 ports from each node have been mapped to the same share on SAN for redundancy. MPIO has been configured on all nodes SAN share has been successfully added to all nodes…
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How does CSV cache behave under memory load?

We're looking at using Microsoft's CSV cache feature in our new Hyper-V 2012 R2 clusters: It's enabled by default, with 512MB allocated to each CSV. The maximum memory that can be assigned is 80%. The recommendation is a maximum allocation of…
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Removed cluster disk that wouldn't come online, now it wants to be formatted. Can I recover the data?

I inherited a failover cluster hosting several VMs and some storage volumes. It uses a fibre-channel SAN for storage. I updated firmware on the SAN controllers recently and when it came back up one of the cluster disks wouldn't come back online in…
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Converting a Windows Server 2012 R2 Scale-Out File Server Back To Regular File Server. Is It Possible?

Well... I messed up. I didn't do enough research and just checked out the headlines then jump head first into the new Scale-Out File Server that Windows Server 2012 R2 brings to the table. At first an Active-Active file server sounds like the…
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Windows 2008 R2 File Server Cluster Missing Volumes in Share Management

I have a Windows Server 2008 R2 File Server Cluster which is failing to correctly display disk volume information when provisioning a new share, and when undertaking share management. I've been unable to find any information about this problem…
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Cluster Shared Volume Owner Node After reboot

Problem: In a failover-cluster (Hyper-v) the CSV (iSCSI) gets "pulled" to the node that just restarted (after updates) when i don't want it to. I can not find any setting defining CSV owner preference, and even if it exists it does not make sense…
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Web Farms in Windows Server 2016 IIS with Scale-Out File Servers (SOFS)?

It's 2017 and I'm looking for some "best practices" guidance with IIS Web Farms across multiple VM servers. Pre-Server 2016 recommendations like Distributed File System-Replication (DFS-R) Application Request Routing (ARR) and Network Load…
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Create a Cluster Shared Volume with 3 Servers

I'm new to Failover Cluster and everthing that has to do with it. At the moment I have two Hyper-V hosts connected to a VLAN and a third server which I would like to use as a file server so the VMs will be highly available. The two Hyper-V Hosts…
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distributed storage solutions

I've got some desktop PCs available in my company since the last user hardware renewal and I would like to re-use them for a demo plaform. They are powerfull enought to emulate a few servers. I guess I could do some virtualization farm, however…
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How to Resolve Hyper-V Disk Location to Drive Letter

When viewing cluster disk properties in Failover Manager or the physical path to VHD's in the settings of a VM in Hyper-V Manager the location is displayed by GUID. Is there a quick way find out which GUID is mapped to which drive letter with…
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IneligibleDataPartition - S2D not starting - error 2

Getting this report but can't find any usefull info how to bind these disk back together: Get-Cachediskstatus.ps1 ---------------------------------------- Node: NAS13 DiskState DiskName …
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