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• HA configuration issues launched a cluster failover action

  Hello

  Have a warning saying: problems of Configuration HA launched an action of cluster failover is missconfigured or who want to go. The error won't go away

  Thank you / tack

  Glad to see you found the answer.

  I assume you mean Re: cluster this warning on the failover event

  André

• Unexpected events of the virtualized Windows Cluster Failover?

  I'm running into a problem where I see the unexpected events of failover on a cluster failover of Server 2008 running on four hosts ESXi 4.1.  ESXi hosts themselves are not grouped.  Each ESXi host running a single Server 2008 VM.  Each virtual machine has the latest version of VMware tools installed.

  The problem is that, once every two days or more, one of the nodes in the Windows cluster release out of the cluster without apparent reason, which triggered a failover event.  So far we have not identified any root cause in any component of our infrastructure (eg. network switches etc.).  The VM guest that always falls out of the cluster during these unexpected failovers joined the cluster after a few minutes or more.  In the event of failure, the virtual machine that injects seems quite good other than the event of failure of the cluster (for example, the virtual machine does not drop even pings).  In addition, it is always a different VM that we see this problem with, it is not always the same.

  Any ideas on what could cause this problem?  The thesis that we have currently is that there could be some problems with the cluster questions missed by Windows during the card NETWORK active/active configuration that we have on the vSwitches on the back-end.  We plan to change that active/passive.  VMware's recommendations one way or another?

  I already read the article below as well as VMware MSCS on vSphere 4.1 guide, but none of them seem to deal specifically with underlying vSwitch configuration.  Any input on that?  Ideas on the thing we should look at?  Thanks for the help!

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US & cmd = displayKC & externalId = 1002890

  Ahh, so that's another problem.

  In the guide 4.1 MSCS, 'section, vSphere MSCS Setup Limitations limitation', he States:

  With native multipathing (NMP), clustering is not taken in charge when the strategy of path is set to round robin.

  -KjB

• Problem with Oracle fail safe 4.1.1 on W2k8 R2 Cluster Failover and Oracle 11.2.0.4 database

  Hi all

  I'm doing some tests on a Windows 2008 (64-bit) R2 two-node failover Cluster.

  I installed and configured successfully bone and the Failover Cluster feature.

  So I followed Oracle Doc-ID 1916391.1 to perform the installation and configuration of Oracle 11.2.0.4 database and Oracle Fail Safe 4.1.1

  After a successful (via Fail Safe Manager) validation of cluster and group, now I'm trying to validate the stand-alone database, but I'm stuck with this error (output in verbose mode of PowerShell):

  PS C:\Users\demo > Test-OracleClusterAvailableDatabase TESTDB - SysPwd (Read-Host-AsSecureString-Prompt "SYS Password ')-verbose

  SYS password: *.

  DETAILES: FS-10915: NODE1: from verification of autonomous resources TESTDB

  DETAILES: FS-10371: NODE1: run the initialization processing

  DETAILES: FS-10371: NODE2: run the initialization processing

  DETAILES: FS-10372: NODE1: resource owner information collection

  DETAILES: FS-10372: NODE2: resource owner information collection

  DETAILES: FS-10373: NODE1: determine the owner of the TESTDB resource node

  DETAILES: FS-10374: NODE1: collection of cluster information required to perform the specified operation

  DETAILES: FS-10374: NODE2: collection of cluster information required to perform the specified operation

  DETAILES: FS-10375: NODE1: analysis of the cluster information required to perform the specified operation

  DETAILES: FS-10378: NODE1: preparation for the configuration of resource TESTDB

  TH: FS-10349: database TESTDB instance is not alive. You want to stop and restart the database instance?

  Confirmation

  Operation does?

  Running dell' operation sulla "Test-OracleClusterAvailableDatabase' likelihood 'TESTDB '.

  [S] Sì Sì [T] a [N] no [U] tutti a tutti [O] Sospendi [?] Guida (he valore predefinito e "S"):

  DETAILES: FS-10350: from the TESTDB database

  Test-OracleClusterAvailableDatabase: OCIEnvNlsCreate failed

  
  

  Riga: 1 car: 1

  + Test-OracleClusterAvailableDatabase - SysPwd TESTDB (Read-Host - AsSecureString - P...)

  + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

  + CategoryInfo: DeviceError: (TESTDB:ResourceDatabase) [Test-OracleClusterAvailableDatabase], PowerShell

  Exception

  + FullyQualifiedErrorId: Process, Oracle.FailSafe.PowerShell.TestOracleClusterAvailableDatabase

  Test-OracleClusterAvailableDatabase: FS-10999: an internal programming error

  Riga: 1 car: 1

  + Test-OracleClusterAvailableDatabase - SysPwd TESTDB (Read-Host - AsSecureString - P...)

  + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

  + CategoryInfo: DeviceError: (TESTDB:ResourceDatabase) [Test-OracleClusterAvailableDatabase], PowerShell

  Exception

  + FullyQualifiedErrorId: Process, Oracle.FailSafe.PowerShell.TestOracleClusterAvailableDatabase

  Test-OracleClusterAvailableDatabase: FS-10160: impossible to verify the Oracle of standalone TESTDB database

  Riga: 1 car: 1

  + Test-OracleClusterAvailableDatabase - SysPwd TESTDB (Read-Host - AsSecureString - P...)

  + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

  + CategoryInfo: DeviceError: (TESTDB:ResourceDatabase) [Test-OracleClusterAvailableDatabase], PowerShell

  Exception

  + FullyQualifiedErrorId: Process, Oracle.FailSafe.PowerShell.TestOracleClusterAvailableDatabase

  Test-OracleClusterAvailableDatabase: FS-10818: provider of resources of the database Oracle failed in preparing for

  treatment for TESTDB resource configuration

  Riga: 1 car: 1

  + Test-OracleClusterAvailableDatabase - SysPwd TESTDB (Read-Host - AsSecureString - P...)

  + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

  + CategoryInfo: DeviceError: (TESTDB:ResourceDatabase) [Test-OracleClusterAvailableDatabase], PowerShell

  Exception

  + FullyQualifiedErrorId: Process, Oracle.FailSafe.PowerShell.TestOracleClusterAvailableDatabase

  Test-OracleClusterAvailableDatabase: FS-10890: Oracle Services for MSCS failed during the verifyStandalone operation

  Riga: 1 car: 1

  + Test-OracleClusterAvailableDatabase - SysPwd TESTDB (Read-Host - AsSecureString - P...)

  + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

  + CategoryInfo: DeviceError: (TESTDB:ResourceDatabase) [Test-OracleClusterAvailableDatabase], PowerShell

  Exception

  + FullyQualifiedErrorId: Process, Oracle.FailSafe.PowerShell.TestOracleClusterAvailableDatabase

  Attached is the log of the OFS Cluster Dump (no error in my opinion).

  I surfed around but I can't find anything to solve the problem.

  I think something about the language of the (Italian) OS and Oracle NLS settings (AMERICAN. AMERICA), but obviolsly I'm not sure about this.

  Thanks in advance for any suggestion,

  Alessandro

  Message modificato da 1d457339-524e-4aa5-94aa-fd7d1ae98732 updated: attached is also output trace of the fss.

  Hello Alessandro.

  Solution to the issue is:

  Patch 20744940: 4.1.1.1: ORACLE FAIL SAFE VERSION 4.1.1 PATCH SET 1

• Problem of cluster Failover MS after physical RDM conversion to VMDK

  Hello

  Last week I had to migrate 7 x 2-nodes virtual MS Failover clusters to a new data center. All clusters have been configured with the configuration of the cabin and all shared disks were in physical RDM mode.

  The target data center does not RDM disks so I had to convert all RDM disks VMDK files and use config before the migration of the IPC.

  I used vmkfstools to convert VMDK eagdrzeroedthick RDM files.

  5 clusters have been migrated successfully, but two cluster got strange question even if the procedure for all groups was the same.

  So in two groups, I have a problem where the second node in the cluster can not put online some of the shared disks. The first nodes in the clusters have no problem with the disks/SSP.

  But when I try to failover of all services, the second node may not bring online disc 1 or 2 shared, even if she can put the other shared disks online.

  VMKernel.log is not errors or warnings. I checked the configuration of virtual machines and everything seems OK.

  Any ideas what I could check?

  Just in case anyone else is facing the same problem.

  I could not find the root cause of the problem, even if it's without a doubt the conversion that triggered the problem. However, we found quite a simple solution - added new shared VMDK files, copied the files over and replaced the defective discs.

• Bruge ESXi ESX cluster failover host som

  VI er PT. igang med at opsaette our VMware losning close.

  VI har investeret i 2 ESX sphere servere tilsluttet et HP EVA SAN. Det var unfortunately alt hvad okonomien riahi til his jeg forsoger at strikke in losning fees med will failover manual til en ESXi host med local storage...

  Oprindeligt var tarpaulin at benytte connection vRanger VizionCore til at the Tagus backups af ESX clusteret men da der ikke er vStorage I have ESXi (free) kommer det ikke til at fungere

  His... er der nogen der har and godt til how men value I det extreme nedbrud (fx SAN' and) hurtigst possible kan mest kritiske maskiner startet op pa ESXi fa' in?

  Hejsa,

  Yes, the kan godt afvikle din vRanger connection pa ESXi hösten backe op lokalt og. Var naked and til and billigt/nature storage til one NFS backup shared.

  Best regards

  Frank Brix Pedersen

• Problems of AX150i cluster and failover

  Hi all.

  I tried to implement cluster failover on Win2003 x 64 with AX150i.

  We already have a cluster configured with an AXE so I now it is not working properly.

  The problem is that when I create a cluster node owns the disks and another should see drives but have no rights over them except wait for them to be released from the first node, but on my setup when the first node appropriating on diskettes, disks on the other node start to fail, they become unavailable , cluster service who sees and stops, so the second node becomes unavailable too.

  I have the latest firmware installed, latest PowerPath and the latest Microsoft iScsi initiator installed.

  Any suggestion would be appreciated.

  Thank you

  Concerning

  Amar

  
  

• (With WAN replcation) failover cluster

  Hello
  We have 3 different groups with caches which are synchronized via the WAN replication. Now, we are planning to implement the cluster failover in which if a cluster is unavailable or unstable client (uses TCP extend) would failover to another cluster.
  
  Now, it is easy to configure the client by mentioning same cache with different names in different groups. But what makes configuring complex and error prone, especially when the number of clusters, but also caches should increase.
  
  So what I'm looking for is a way I can change the schema of underlying caching for a given cache name. So that I can point dynamically to the other cluster without having to restart my client.
  
  Or if there a better way to do it, clues are welcome :)
  
  
  Thank you
  Kishore s.
  
  Published by: user10737736 on July 14, 2009 05:31

  Hello
  I don't know if that's what you're looking for, but I have in past used ConfigurableCacheFactory to solve a similar problem.
  Essentially, I create a client to a cluster using ConfigurableCacheFactory connection, I created by instantiating a DefaultConfigurableCacheFactory by the way of an XmlDocument which essentially my client configuration file for consistency. Of the ConfigurableCacheFactory, you can create a CacheService and connect according to normal.
  Now if you have a power failure you can create another foregoing a cluster, closing the existing service of course.
  Kind regards
  Nick

• "Move" failover to different / interface port

  Sorry if this is in the wrong place, we had if rarely to issues which were not covered otherwise I frequent this area.

  How is it difficult to change the interface used for active failover / standby? This is a pair of work, already configured with standby, but I need to move the cable crossed and tell them to use a different interface.
  Pair of ASA 5510, already put in place and work with failover, which was originally set on Ethernet port 0/3 by senior network administrator. It seems that its use of interfaces or ports he used things straight out of the examples on the web, including the interfaces used.
  The admin network senior retired last spring and left me "supported", gee, thanks.
  I need to make some changes and Ethernet port need for an important new project.
  The management interface 0/0 is unused and shut down. We manage by inside the interface from a specific inside subnet so do not need the interface dedicated management.
  I want to spend the shift IN management TO Ethernet 0/3 0/0

  * This is the current configuration:

  Output of the command: "sh run failover.

  failover
  primary failover lan unit
  failover failover lan interface Ethernet0/3
  failover failover Ethernet0/3 link
  failover interface ip failover 169.254.255.1 255.255.255.252 ensures 169.254.255.2

  * And it's the current 0/3 interface and management configuration:

  interface Ethernet0/3
  STATE/LAN failover Interface Description
  !
  interface Management0/0
  Speed 100
  full duplex
  Shutdown
  nameif management
  security-level 0
  no ip address
  OSPF cost 10

  I know that it can work on the management interface 0/0 because I see a lot of 'how to configure' as if the SAA is brand-new and several examples there indeed be setup on the management.

  I'm looking to find out how to take a pair of ASA is currently configured and has a functional work and all failover configuration simply "tilting move" to a different hole, or change the interfaces used for the 'heartbeat' somehow.

  I guess that's not difficult - but I also assume that there is a specific sequence of events that must occur in order to prevent the pair to enter the failover and switching of the main roles...
  For example - would have turned off or turn off the power switch and if so, how and on what ASA (frankly, I don't know how to access education secondary or standby if it needs to be done, suspended or on the rescue unit, because I never did that 'deep' a before config)
  CLI is very well - I'd be too comfortable in ASDM or cli.

  I really hope this makes sense - I have more than one convenience store and fixer than a designer or network engineer...
  And thank you very much - get this moved will release the interface I need and can really make a big bump in my list of project while the project manager is on vacation this week! I'd love to have done this and before his return.

  Oh, in case it is important as I said, it's running license and version shown here:

  Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software Version 4,0000 1
  Version 6.4 Device Manager (7)

  Updated Friday, June 14, 12 and 11:20 by manufacturers
  System image file is "disk0: / asa844-1 - k8.bin.
  The configuration file to the startup was "startup-config '.

  VRDSMFW1 141 days 4 hours
  failover cluster upwards of 141 days 4 hours

  Material: ASA5510, 1024 MB RAM, Pentium 4 Celeron 1600 MHz processor
  Internal ATA Compact Flash, 256 MB
  BIOS Flash M50FW080 @ 0xfff00000, 1024 KB

  Hardware encryption device: edge Cisco ASA - 55 x 0 Accelerator (revision 0 x 0)
  Start firmware: CN1000-MC-BOOT - 2.00
  SSL/IKE firmware: CNLite-MC-Smls-PLUS - 2.03
  Microcode IPSec:-CNlite-MC-IPSECm-HAND - 2.06
  Number of Accelerators: 1

  0: Ext: Ethernet0/0: the address is 0024.972b.e020, irq 9
  1: Ext: Ethernet0/1: the address is 0024.972b.e021, irq 9
  2: Ext: Ethernet0/2: the address is 0024.972b.e022, irq 9
  3: Ext: Ethernet0/3: the address is 0024.972b.e023, irq 9
  4: Ext: Management0/0: the address is 0024.972b.e01f, irq 11
  5: Int: not used: irq 11
  6: Int: not used: irq 5

  The devices allowed for this platform:
  The maximum physical Interfaces: unlimited perpetual
  VLAN maximum: 100 perpetual
  Guests of the Interior: perpetual unlimited
  Failover: Active/active perpetual
  VPN - A: enabled perpetual
  VPN-3DES-AES: activated perpetual
  Security contexts: 2 perpetual
  GTP/GPRS: Disabled perpetual
  AnyConnect Premium peers: 2 perpetual
  AnyConnect Essentials: 250 perpetual
  Counterparts in other VPNS: 250 perpetual
  Total VPN counterparts: 250 perpetual
  Shared license: disabled perpetual
  AnyConnect for Mobile: disabled perpetual
  AnyConnect Cisco VPN phone: disabled perpetual
  Assessment of Advanced endpoint: disabled perpetual
  Proxy UC phone sessions: 2 perpetual
  Proxy total UC sessions: 2 perpetual
  Botnet traffic filter: disabled perpetual
  Intercompany Media Engine: Disabled perpetual

  This platform includes an ASA 5510 Security Plus license.

  Cluster failover with license features of this platform:
  The maximum physical Interfaces: unlimited perpetual
  VLAN maximum: 100 perpetual
  Guests of the Interior: perpetual unlimited
  Failover: Active/active perpetual
  VPN - A: enabled perpetual
  VPN-3DES-AES: activated perpetual
  Security contexts: 4 perpetual
  GTP/GPRS: Disabled perpetual
  AnyConnect Premium peer: 4 perpetual
  AnyConnect Essentials: 250 perpetual
  Counterparts in other VPNS: 250 perpetual
  Total VPN counterparts: 250 perpetual
  Shared license: disabled perpetual
  AnyConnect for Mobile: disabled perpetual
  AnyConnect Cisco VPN phone: disabled perpetual
  Assessment of Advanced endpoint: disabled perpetual
  Proxy UC phone sessions: 4 perpetual
  Proxy total UC sessions: 4 perpetual
  Botnet traffic filter: disabled perpetual
  Intercompany Media Engine: Disabled perpetual

  This platform includes an ASA 5510 Security Plus license.

  Serial number: ABC12345678
  Running permanent activation key: eieioandapartridgeinapeartree
  Registry configuration is 0x1
  Last modified by me to 15:03:07.132 CDT MON Sep 15 2014 configuration

  Disconnect an interface monitored on your rescue unit that will ensure that it does not take as active. Then cut the failover link and modify its failover parameters. (You will need to first remove the nameif for M0/0).

  Then, make the changes on the primary unit similar free game active. Reconnect the failover link, confirm the synchronization of the units and finally reconnect the interface of production on the rescue unit.

• PowerCLI: Enable / disable alarm on the hosts Actions / clusters

  Hi all

  I did some serious research on Google and am about to accept that it is not possible through PowerCLI.

  But I wanted to make a last effort by asking you guys.

  For the ESXi host interview, I want to use a PowerCLI script that does this:

  1. -Disable alarm on Cluster actions
  2. -Disable alarm on the hosts actions
     
     
  3. -maintenance (can be anything, but will include the host reboots)
     
     
  4. -turn on the alarm of the actions on the hosts
  5. -activate the alarm actions on Cluster

  Because we have 300 + hosst ESXi, you can imagine that I want to cela scripted.

  Is it possible to toggle alarm actions via PowerCLI?

  Thank you and best regards,

  Harold

  OK, it seems we are talking about two different things.

  What you want to do can be done from a script PowerCLI.

  Something like that

  $alarmMgr = Get-View AlarmManager $cluster = Get-Cluster MyCluster # To disable alarm actions $alarmMgr.EnableAlarmActions($cluster.Extensiondata.MoRef,$false)
  
  # To enable alarm actions $alarmMgr.EnableAlarmActions($cluster.Extensiondata.MoRef,$true)
  

  The same can be done for a host ESX (i)

  $alarmMgr = Get-View AlarmManager $esx = Get-VMHost MyEsx
  
  # To disable alarm actions $alarmMgr.EnableAlarmActions($esx.Extensiondata.MoRef,$false)
  
  # To enable alarm actions $alarmMgr.EnableAlarmActions($esx.Extensiondata.MoRef,$true)
  

  Sorry for the confusion

• It is possible and effective: high availability (failover) on 2 guests with local storage?

  Hello

  I have a discussion on the implementation of ha (failover) with 2 guests with local storage.

  My advice is to go with a shared storage. But there is another view, use the cluster failover MS with local storage service to save on the shared storage hardware.

  2 "mirorred" on each host machines. Is it feasible at all?

  The HughesNet: have 2 virtual machines (SQL server and server applications in a highly available environment). The workload of the machines will be raised to 2 very powerful servers that are supposed to be buying.

  1. Please briefly explain a feature of local storage to provide HA.

  2. I got to cluster in the virtual environment, not so I guess that the shared storage is used only in the virtual environment.

  Thank you.

  Michael.

  There is software that can replicate a running, physical or virtual machine to another accessible location on the network. This could be as simple that between two close hosted ESXi of VMS or high-speed WAN. Take a look at things like neverfail, doubletake others.  The costs would probably be a bit prohibitive in a smaller environment. It might be possible and maybe even practice to use a virtual storage device having a failover replication. Use of storage on each host and allows to provide the data store. Open-e

  The Microsoft Clustering solution needs a shared storage.

• MS on NFS and iSCSI with cluster?

  Clustering for vSphere management guide States that only storage fibre channel is supported of the CF/MSCS clusters, so I'm sure I already know the answer to that, but...

  I have a client who wants to run a NetApp storage solution active cluster failover, configure the disks in the operating system for Windows 2008 R2 servers on an NFS volume and application driven on a DRM iSCSI data.  IOPS / s and network side, someone set up a cluster like this before, and if so what were your experiences?  I'm just trying to get an idea of what kind of potential problems to wait on the road.  I also assume that VMware is not going to support because they advise against it expressly.  Thoughts?

  
  
  -Justin

  According to me, that it will simply not work. ISCSI initiator Software in ESX/ESXi does not support persistent reservations SCSI-3, which is required by MSCS on 2008 and above. With the help of the RDM will not change it. I don't know if iSCSI HBA will work.

  The workaround for this is to use software iSCSI initiator inside 2008. Operating system can sit on NFS datastore. Quorum and the data must be on iSCSI LUNS connected via the Windows iSCSI initiator.

• Exchange 2007 Cluster CSC - P2V

  We are currently running two physical servers to Exchange 2007 in a SCC cluster.  The Exchange mailbox DB are housed on a LUN in a SAN EMC.  Currently, the two physical servers have access to the LUN, but only the active node of SCC will go up the disks.

  We would like to P2V servers on our farm in VMWare (ESX and vSphere 4).  The SCC cluster has too many pieces attached to it (certificates, Outlook clients connect on behalf of the cluster, etc.) so we don't want to set up a new server and then migrate the data.  Are there special aspects we need to know?  Most of the documentation I've found is CCR and SCC No.

  In the past, we ran into issues when more than WIndows servers had access to a SAN logical unit number.  In fact, this caused the corruption of our Exchange 2007 databases when firstly, we migrated from Exchange 2003 to 2007.  We will encounter this problem even if our ESX farm all have access to this LUN?  This is necessary because we also run vMotion.

  Thank you.

  Yes, the new virtual machine will be the 3rd member of cluster, not the server of the mailbox 3rd (just to be clear).  In order for this virtual machine be eligible, you need to make data visible LUNS per ESX host.  Once added to the cluster, you will be able to move the EVS (your mailbox server resources) for the virtual machine (3rd member of the cluster).  Note, all in are not normally the case, I've seen a situation when the VM could not meet the disks shared online.  To fix this I had to turn off the physical host computers having locks on shared disks.  Once I turned off the physical nodes I could put the Exchange virtual server online and then put on the physical nodes and freely moving resources between nodes.

  If you look at the guide I linked in the previous post, you will see the section that describes the parameters to create a cluster of physical to virtual.  Once the virtual is online and you have confirmed that the Exchange virtual server can freely migrate from the physical to the virtual nodes you can expel one of the physical nodes.  You can then set up a second virtual machine and add it to the cluster.  Once you have verified that the Exchange virtual server can migrate freely between the two virtual nodes you can then remove the remaining physical node and you end up with a virtual two-node cluster.  Also, note that you cannot have two nodes in a cluster failover windows running on vSphere.

  I hope this helps.

  -alex

• VMWAre HA MUST have an MS cluster so that the virtual machine have to reboot?

  This statement is correct?

  HA does not have 0 downtime. There is a period where the virtual machines will be inaccessible until the node determines she is isolated and HA procedures begin.

  The clustering of MS bit is the Microsoft implementation of virtualization also HypeV, it does not provide 100% uptime as the cluster failover event takes time to complete.

  Now, I hear with continuous availability ESX 4, we get 100% uptime on the VMS during outages of the host, but we will have to wait and see.

• Lanman Server shutdown service

  LanMan server service is shutdown state. We had an error because Windows is not genuine. Service of Cluster Failover is down.

  Event logs are not accessible.

  This issue is beyond the scope of this site (for consumers) and to be sure, you get the best (and fastest) reply, we have to ask either on Technet (for IT Pro) or MSDN (for developers)

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