If that is not the purpose of failover clustering, what would your definition be? Maybe I need to go another route to resolve this, as it seems that all people want to do is attack the choices we have made for our institution.
>>> Ken Cornetet <[email protected]> 12/6/2012 7:46 AM >>> Maybe I'm missing something. What it is you hope to protect against? I not sure what you mean by "services" clustering. Are you thinking that if somehow the server service gets hosed on one node of the cluster that MS clustering will switch over to the other node? -----Original Message----- From: Patrick Hasenjager [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2012 5:17 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: File Services Clustering in Server 2012 We want "services" clustering in addition to the hardware clustering already in our ESXi environment. >>> Ken Cornetet <[email protected]> 12/5/2012 4:03 PM >>> Why in the world would you use a Microsoft cluster when you have the vastly superior and easier ESX clustering to provide failover? -----Original Message----- From: Patrick Hasenjager [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2012 4:33 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: File Services Clustering in Server 2012 We are just getting into clustering services, now that we have been allowed to purchase a SAN (we have only been asking for more years than I can count!). I created a failover cluster in Server 2012 Standard and attached 4 nodes to it (all virtuals with VMware ESXi 5.1 - the same problem exists whether 1 node is connected or up to all 4). They are connected to common LUNs on a NetApp appliance. Yesterday, everything went to hell. It started off that I could not access one of the file shares and then two... then all 4 that we had configured. Because this system was not yet being utilized for anyone other than myself, I decided to just recreate it. Now that I have done that, I cannot configure any file shares. When I click the "Add File Share" to the cluster role (File Server), the "volumes" is blank and I cannot use the browse button. I can type a path, but it states that it is not valid for the particular server. According to the console, everything is "Running" and "Online." I also cannot access the administrative share for the drive which is attached to the role. I am at a complete loss for ideas and Internet searches have turned up absolutely nothing regarding the problem I am having. I'm sure I am missing something simple, but cannot come up with what that is. Can anyone assist me? Feel free to contact me off-list if it is more convenient. PATRICK HASENJAGER | Network Administrator Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences | Information Technology phone 816.654.7712 | fax 816.654.7701 email [email protected] | www.kcumb.edu ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
