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discussion comment 23 May 2013

Wally_Heim commented on: Storage foundation for Windows bandwidth issue..

I don't think this Mrinal is using a cluster. There is nothing in the original post that would indicate a cluster is being used. If this is not a cluster then the diskgroup needs to be a Secondary diskgroup and not a Clustered ...

discussion comment 14 May 2013

Wally_Heim commented on: Need to destroy DG that cannot be imported

Hi Yet, Vxtool is a password protected zip file download. You will need to open a case with Symantec Technical Support and have us run vxtool to clean up the diskgroup. There might also be other items that we can do to get the ...

discussion comment 06 May 2013

Wally_Heim commented on: Need to destroy DG that cannot be imported

Hi Yet, You should import the diskgroup as a non-cluster dynamic diskgroup and then you can destroy it. To import it as a non-clustered diskgroup, select "Import as dynamic disk group" during the import operation from VEA. Here ...

discussion comment 06 May 2013

Wally_Heim commented on: VCS failover service group

Just to show a difference, in Windows we would use workload managment by setting system "Limits" and service group "Prerequisites". We've used the exclusivily for Active/Actice Exhange clusters were it is impossible ...

discussion comment 02 May 2013

Wally_Heim commented on: Need information on how to configure .vmdks with VCS to allow for vMotion

Hi Chip, In short, you need to install the Symantec HA Console version 6.0.1 and connect it to your vCenter server. Then you need to push the Symantec HA Console Guest 6.0.1 components to the Windows 2008 servers or the 6.0.2 components to ...

discussion comment 19 Mar 2013

Wally_Heim commented on: CompositeFileShare subfolders not avail on HA node when created outside of VCS

Hi bjh, The FileShare and CompositeFileShare resources share out subfolders during the online and the monitor cycles. Newly added subfolders should be shared during the next monitor cycle. The main problem that I typically see is ...

discussion comment 12 Mar 2013

Wally_Heim commented on: Service group does not fail over on another node on force power down.

Hi Shivam, VCS clustering is designed to have 2 or more heartbeats. If you are down to a single heartbeat then the cluster goes into jeopardy membership and assumes that the cluster is not faulted but that there is a another issue going ...

discussion comment 12 Mar 2013

Wally_Heim commented on: Service group does not fail over on another node on force power down.

Hi Mike and Shivam, During the time of the power off testing there were no nodes in the DDNA membership. The hex code after the DDNA (and other memberships for that matter) tell you what nodes are in that membership. In this case, ...

discussion comment 11 Mar 2013

Wally_Heim commented on: Re-installation required of OS on one node in two nodes SQL Cluster

Hi Zahid, If you are not able to remove the node from the surviving cluster configuration with the manual and you have to do it manually, you will need to modify 3 configuration files on each of the surviving nodes. Here is a basic run ...

discussion comment 07 Mar 2013

Wally_Heim commented on: Re-installation required of OS on one node in two nodes SQL Cluster

Hi Zahid, That is the basics for what needs to be done. The only thing that I would add would be that the cluster and service group configuration needs to be cleaned up of the rebuilt node information before you add the passive node back ...

discussion comment 06 Mar 2013

Wally_Heim commented on: Re-installation required of OS on one node in two nodes SQL Cluster

HI Zahid, Since you are removing the node to be rebuilt from the existing SQL 2008 service group and reinstalling the OS, then you can take advantage of a new feature in SFW-HA's SQL 2008 Service Group Configuration Wizard. The new ...

discussion comment 06 Mar 2013

Wally_Heim commented on: SFHA 6: Diskgroup fails after reboot

Hi Schilli, Can you check the Engine_A.txt log and the VMDg_A.txt log that are in the %vcs_home%\log folder around the time the server was rebooted? These logs will have what that cluster is doing or having problems with during that ...

discussion comment 27 Feb 2013

Wally_Heim commented on: BSOD from vxio.sys

Hi Visarut, I see you are using SFW-HA 5.1 SP2 with VVR in a GCO configuration. There are a few fixes post SP2 fixes that address BSODs with VVR that happen in the vxio.sys. You should install CP16 to get the latest post SP2 patches ...

discussion comment 11 Feb 2013

Wally_Heim commented on: VCS 5.1 Exchange 2003 Active Directory 2008

Hi nsaazn, Your servers are complaining of low system resources. From you logs, I see error 0x5AA logged repeatedly by the Lanman agent. 2013/01/31 01:35:01 VCS DBG_21 V-16-50-0 Lanman:MAIL3-Lanman:monitor:VLibNetbiosTable::GetActiveInterfaces ...

discussion comment 19 Jan 2013

Wally_Heim commented on: VCSCOMM Error

Hi Anthony, For the motherboard that you had to change, did it have builtin NICs that were being used for the LLT heartbeat? My guess would be yes. If yes, you need to reconfigure LLT to get it working correctly. You can check the ...

discussion comment 19 Jan 2013

Wally_Heim commented on: How to clone a Windows server with Storage Foundation

Hi Chuck, Can you provide more details on what you are trying to do? SFW can mirror volumes and has Flashsnap to make quick backups of data volumes. SFW is not needed to mirror the system drive since that can be done with Windows ...

discussion comment 17 Jan 2013

Wally_Heim commented on: windows server 2012 support

Hi Marius, We are working on SFW/SFW-HA 6.0.2 (currently in beta - actually we are at the end of beta) that will provide support for Windows 2012. The planned release of it is Q1 2013. Unless some major problems/issues popup with the ...

discussion comment 09 Jan 2013

Wally_Heim commented on: Testing cluster fails to restart the failed server

Hi Mark, It is very unlikely that 3 processes will terminate at the same time in the real world without something else causing the failure. To answer your question, killing HAD, HAShadow and GAB at the same time (or very close) should cause the ...

discussion comment 08 Jan 2013

Wally_Heim commented on: Testing cluster fails to restart the failed server

Hi Mark, The issue that you are having with killing HAD and HAShadow is that the surviving nodes are monitoring both Port A and Port H memberships on the heartbeat. Killing HAD and HAShadow only takes our Port H membershipt but not Port A ...

discussion comment 04 Jan 2013

Wally_Heim commented on: How do I add the License/feature

Hi mhab11, Sorry, there is not a way to add licenses and options to multiple servers at a single pass after the initial installation is done. There are CLI options to add keys and options that you might want to look into. With them you ...