Failover instance 'MSSQLSERVER' cluster group not found Error Message

• arctica82

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  July 9, 2009 at 1:33 pm

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  I have tried to install second node in cluster environment,by choosing 'Add node to a SQL SERVER failover cluster' and in 'Cluster Node configuration' seciton I received erroe message 'Failover instance 'MSSQLSERVER' cluster group not found' Error Message,I have already installed CU1 and hotfixs,but it did not help,I would appreciate if some one help.

• w.durkin@online.de

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  August 27, 2009 at 5:54 am

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  Hi there,

  we experienced this problem yesterday. Luckily for us only a test installation.

  The workaround that we used was to remove all nodes from the cluster (1 server), uninstall the cluster and then recreate it.

  Regards,

  WilliamD