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J B
Copper Contributor
Jan 07, 2018
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Cannot get AppFabric installed on Windows Server 2016

I'm installing SharePoint 2016 on Server 2016, using the shared roles option.  Everything installs ok except for AppFabric, I can't get Distributed Cache to start.   The error in central admin is...
SharePoint Server 2016
  • Trevor Seward's avatar
    Trevor Seward
    Jan 08, 2018
    If you're not familiar with it, you didn't use it :) Usually what you'd do is set all your DistCache parameters (service account, memory usage) prior to introducing a 2nd DC host, but if you need to deploy a DC+FE host, you can use that parameter to prevent DC from provisioning.

    If DC is truly not working, you need a new farm. Certain things are only provisioned when the first DC host is introduced to the farm.
J B's avatar
J B
Copper Contributor
Jan 18, 2018

Hi Trevor,

 

So after re-building my farm I was able to get Distributed Cache started by adding my WFE1 server to the farm, configuring Distributed Cache and making sure it was running, then I added my second WFE2 sever and Distributed Cache is started now on both servers.

 

One issue I noticed, if I run:

Use-CacheCluster

Get-CacheHost

Export-CacheClusterConfig -Path C:\export.txt

 

The config is different for each server( I bolded the differences):

<hosts>
  <host replicationPort="22236" arbitrationPort="22235" clusterPort="22234"
      hostId="16089484" size="3096" leadHost="true" account="domain\ch.farmacc"
      cacheHostName="AppFabricCachingService" name="11-MySERVER-WFE1.mydomain.com"
      cachePort="22233" />
  <host replicationPort="22236" arbitrationPort="22235" clusterPort="22234"
      hostId="303111937" size="819" leadHost="true" account="domain\ch.ServiceAcc"
      cacheHostName="AppFabricCachingService" name="11-MySERVER-WFE2.mydomain.com"
      cachePort="22233" />
</hosts>

 

Should these settings all the same for both servers?