Has anyone deployed VisualCron 7 to a Microsoft 2012R2 Clustered environment? I searched the forums and all I found was a 6 year old topic.

I have two nodes in my cluster. Both are virtual machines running MS 2012R2. I installed VC 7 to the shared drive from both nodes. VC seems happy with it but when I try to failover the cluster the disk quorum moves to the other node but not the disk. It appears that VCTray.exe is active and preventing the disk from moving. When I kill the VCTray.exe process the disk fails over fine. Does VCTray.exe run on startup or only after the client has been run?

For the sake of context I am moving off of two old physical machines (not clustered) and VisualCron v5. One would blue screen now and then and I would have to get on the other and activate the jobs manually. I would also have to copy the jobs from one server to the other to keep them in sync. I want to automate both of those and thought a clustered environment would be the way to go.

Has anyone deployed VisualCron 7 to a Microsoft 2012R2 Clustered environment? I searched the forums and all I found was a 6 year old topic.

I have two nodes in my cluster. Both are virtual machines running MS 2012R2. I installed VC 7 to the shared drive from both nodes. VC seems happy with it but when I try to failover the cluster the disk quorum moves to the other node but not the disk. It appears that VCTray.exe is active and preventing the disk from moving. When I kill the VCTray.exe process the disk fails over fine. Does VCTray.exe run on startup or only after the client has been run?

For the sake of context I am moving off of two old physical machines (not clustered) and VisualCron v5. One would blue screen now and then and I would have to get on the other and activate the jobs manually. I would also have to copy the jobs from one server to the other to keep them in sync. I want to automate both of those and thought a clustered environment would be the way to go.

VCTray.exe runs whenever someone logs on to the desktop. That could be removed with a registry setting.

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Specifically to clarify Henrik's comment, you'd have to remove the item out of the 'Run' section of the registry. Since VC is 32-bit, it's actually buried under the Wow6432Node container:



There should be a REG_SZ item in there called "VisualCron Tray ClientV5" that you just need to delete.
Keep in mind, every time you upgrade VisualCron, it's going to put it right back.

Brian

i have a question for you, and this is mostly due to me not having any experience with MS 2012 Clustering (quite familiar with 2003 and somewhat with 2008).

I know on older 2003 clusters if you had a piece of software that was not cluster aware (such as VisualCron, at least i'm pretty sure its not), You would install on the active node where the disk currently exists, which would put any relevant registry entries on that OS. Then you'd fail JUST the disk over to the other node, and install the software again right over top the existing files, so that node's OS also got the registry entries. That way the product was actually 'installed' on both nodes fully, at which point you could then create your cluster resources that contained the VisualCron service, and dependencies on the shared Disk, etc....

How did you accomplish this in 2012 ? Same way? or did you just install it on one of them and it happened to work?

Brian