We had an interesting problem on a recent project where SQL Server 2005 wouldn’t install on a Windows 2008 R2 failover cluster. The cluster validates properly however when installing SQL Server 2005, the install threw an “User has cancelled the installation” error. The logs showed that communications to the remote node were failing: [...]
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29
May
Shared disk options when trying to create a cluster using virtualized nodes within Microsoft Hyper-V are very limited – in fact, only iSCSI will work! You can no longer use a shared SCSI device as you could with older Microsoft virtualization product or like you can with products from VMWare. I was happy to find [...]
16
Dec
After a reasonably painless recent rollout of SEP v11 to our fleet, we’ve come across some issues running it on a Windows 2003 Active-Passive Exchange 2003 cluster. Symptoms: nodes unresponsive, sometimes together, sometimes minutes after the other one – not even blue screened but completely unresponsive, nothing on the console. Anyway the short of it [...]
Tags: cluster, Exchange, sep, symantec endpoint, windows 2003