While creating a Hyper-V replica broker in my HV cluster, I came across a problem. No matter what workaround I tried, my broker wont work. I tried pre-staging the computer account etc, as mentioned here but for my particular environment, it did not work. I read this: “https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/askpfeplat/2012/12/09/why-adding-hyper-v-replica-connection-broker-fails-in-failover-cluster-manager/” and this https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/36ab7df9-a202-4493-a4a4-57b9cc8370b8/hyperv-replica-broker-stuck-in-failed-status?forum=winserverhyperv   Here is how I resolved it : I deleted the pre-staged computer account in AD, (which I had created manually, earlier for the replica broker) Configured the role in FCM, no errors while creation After that… yes, I got errors in the log (ignore for a minute) Then I recreated the AD computer name by hand and gave…

I have a few observations about CSVs in a Hyper-V 2012 cluster: 1. Online/Offline status in Disk Management. Take a look at the screenshot below. I was troubled by seeing the CSV offline. I thought there was a problem (not really). Here is how the cluster works: The CSV shows up as an online disk only on the cluster node which is managing is (or is the owner of that CSV). If you change the owner of that CSV to another node, the CSV disk will go offline on this node. However both nodes can still access the CSV via C:\ClusterStorage\vol2 2. Cannot map a drive to view CSV contents:…