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Network Load Balancing in R2: Using ETW Tracing
Hi, We are going to talk about a new feature in Windows Server 2008 R2 for Failover Clustering, ETW tracing. With this added functionality, we have provided a mechanism of tracing why NLB has...
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PowerShell for Failover Clustering: Creating Highly Available Workloads
Hi Clustering PowerShell Scripters, One of the things we’ve provided in Failover Clustering PowerShell is a set of CMDlets to easily create highly available workloads in a cluster. PS...
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R2 Print Cluster? Get this Hotfix! KB 976571
Hi Cluster Fans, Many of you use Failover Clustering to provide high-availability to your print servers to ensure that the print spooler resource stays up and running. We have recently released a...
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New Cluster Docs for Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) & Migration
Hi Cluster Fans, We have recently added some Windows Server 2008 R2 Failover Clustering content on the web. Here are some of our recent publications with special thanks to Jan Keller and our...
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New Validation Tests in 2008 R2 Failover Clustering
Hi Cluster Fans, Our Validate a Configuration Wizard was so popular that we’ve improved it in Windows Server 2008 R2. Validate is the tool which verifies that your entire configuration is suitable...
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Have a Passion for High-Availability? We are looking for new Cluster MVPs!
Hi Cluster Fans, The MVP program is a way in which we thank active members in the Cluster and HA community for their contributions towards growing and supporting our products (more info). Our MVP...
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Wanted: A Good Cluster Developer to Support 2008 R2
Hi Cluster Fans, Microsoft’s Windows Sustained Engineering (WinSE) organization has a job opening for a developer to support Failover Clustering and Network Load Balancing (NLB) technologies. WinSE...
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Creating a Cluster Resource DLL (Part 1)
Hi, In this series of blog posts we will review the Resource State Machine from the Resource Host Server (RHS or Resource Monitor) point of view. Hopefully it will help you to design, develop and...
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Troubleshooting: Cluster UI Says a Server is Already Joined to a Cluster
Hi Cluster Fans, In this post I will discuss a 2008 and 2008 R2 deployment issue which is sometimes seen, and how to get around it. Let’s say you want to Validate a server, create a cluster or add a...
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Creating a Cluster Resource DLL (Part 2)
Hi, In this series of blog posts we will help you to design, develop and debug the Resource DLL you are developing to give your application high-availability with Windows Server 2008 & 2008 R2...
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Migration: Using the Cluster 'Migrated' Registry Key
Hi Cluster Fans, Windows Server 2008 R2 has been our most popular release by far, with quick adoption for some of the great new features like Cluster Shared Volumes, PowerShell and live migration....
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Upcoming Webcasts: Clustering & High-Availability
Hi Cluster Fans, Over the next few weeks the cluster team is offering a series of public TechNet webcasts focusing on Failover Clustering in Windows Server 2008 R2. High Availability Server Apps with...
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Creating a Cluster Resource DLL (Part 3)
Hi, In this series of blog posts we will help you to design, develop and debug the Resource DLL you are developing to give your application high-availability with Windows Server 2008 & 2008 R2...
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PowerShell for Failover Clustering: Understanding Error Codes
Hi, This blog is about how to handle error codes returned by PowerShell Failover Clustering CMDlets. For an introduction to this topic you can take a look at...
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Introduction to the Cluster Quorum Model
Failover clusters ensure that workloads such as File Server, Exchange, SQL, and Virtual Machines are highly available. These resources are considered highly available if the nodes that host resources...
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Clustering & High-Availability at TechEd 2010
Hi, The Clustering team is coming to TechEd New Orleans from June 7-10! Sign up now at: http://northamerica.msteched.com/ In addition to many technical presentation, the team will be manning...
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Introduction to the Cluster Quorum Model (Part 2)
Hi, A few weeks ago we gave an overview of the cluster quorum model: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/clustering/archive/2010/05/14/10012930.aspx This week we will provide some more details about when and...
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PowerShell for Failover Clustering: CSV Free Disk Space (and other info)
Hi Cluster PowerShell script writers, We regularly get asked about how to find the free disk space on Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV). In this blog, I will show you how to do this with PowerShell. Here...
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New Clustering Utility – Remote Desktop Connection Manager
Hi Cluster Fans, We wanted to let you know about a new tool which will significantly help you manage your cluster deployments. Remote Desktop Connection Manager is actually not cluster-specific, but...
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PowerShell for Failover Clustering: Webcast Follow up
Hi Cluster Fans, Thanks for those of you who attended my webcast on PowerShell a few weeks ago. If you didn’t have a chance to attend, here is the link to the event:...
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