{"id":11191,"date":"2011-04-26T17:21:10","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T17:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=11191"},"modified":"2011-04-26T17:21:10","modified_gmt":"2011-04-26T17:21:10","slug":"having-cluster-validation-issues-after-upgrading-to-w2008-r2-sp1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=11191","title":{"rendered":"Having Cluster Validation Issues After Upgrading to W2008 R2 SP1?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a bit of a hot topic on TechNet: people who upgraded to Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 on 3+ node clusters started having issues with cluster validation.\u00a0 Before the upgrade there was no issue.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/workinghardinit.wordpress.com\/2011\/04\/08\/cluster-validation-bug-in-windows-2008-r2-sp1-disk-has-a-persistent-reservation-on-it\/\" target=\"_blank\">Didier Van Hoye<\/a> (follow him!) pinged me to alert me to a new KB (KB2531907) that should be out today to fix the issue.\u00a0 Eldin Christensen (one of the seniors behind Failover Clustering) <a href=\"http:\/\/social.technet.microsoft.com\/Forums\/en-US\/winserverClustering\/thread\/e67026af-7f9b-4698-9ca7-11853431ed86\/\" target=\"_blank\">posted on the TechNet forums<\/a> to alert us.<\/p>\n<p>In the post, Eldin says:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cA hotfix is now available that addresses the Win2008 R2 service pack 1 issue with Validate on a 3+ node cluster. This is KB 2531907. The KB article and download link will be published shortly, in the mean time you can obtain this hotfix immediately free of charge by calling Microsoft support and referencing KB 2531907\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a pity that you cannot just download it like other publicly available KBs.\u00a0 This is an issue that will cause support issues if you call MS CSS with other clustering problems; remember that CSS supports clusters that pass the validation test.<\/p>\n<p>BTW, this linked <a href=\"http:\/\/workinghardinit.wordpress.com\/2011\/04\/26\/extra-info-on-clustering-hyper-v-with-dynamic-memory-when-you-start-with-starting-windows-server-2008-r2-sp1\/\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> by Didier includes some more fixes to be aware of for W2008 R2 SP1 clusters.<\/p>\n<p>EDIT: Microsoft <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=11198\" target=\"_blank\">did post the hotfix<\/a> online so you can download it.<\/p>\n<div id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:41d8d82d-a550-4e5d-911d-ad369c3783e6\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\" style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati Tags: <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Windows+Server+2008+R2\">Windows Server 2008 R2<\/a>,<a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Windows+Updates\">Windows Updates<\/a>,<a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Failover+Clustering\">Failover Clustering<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a bit of a hot topic on TechNet: people who upgraded to Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 on 3+ node clusters started having issues with cluster validation.\u00a0 Before the upgrade there was no issue.\u00a0 Didier Van Hoye (follow him!) pinged me to alert me to a new KB (KB2531907) that should &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=11191\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Having Cluster Validation Issues After Upgrading to W2008 R2 SP1?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[63,117,121],"class_list":["post-11191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-failover-clustering","tag-windows-server-2008-r2","tag-windows-updates"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}