September 29, 2010 at 12:47 pm
Disclaimer: I'm just jumping into this problem and I'm a DBA-folk, not a server builder. However, since I need the cluster built for my project, I'm helping out...
We are trying to build a two node active/passive MSCS cluster on Windows 2008 R2. Prior to my involvement, we got as far as the "Create a Cluster" wizard, then the wizard failed because of an AD permission problem. The AD permission problem has since been corrected.
Now, when running the "Create a Cluster" wizard, on the first screen, an error is received when adding the servers. The error on the screen is: "The computer <servername> is joined to a cluster." The same error is received for both servers that I'm trying to join to the cluster.
I have rerun the "Validate a configuration" wizard and it passes, so whatever the problem is, the validation isn't helping. There are no errors in the event viewer logs. There is not yet a cluster.log (or at least I can't find it), so I have no better errors to share.
I'm guessing the failed installed ran far enough to add the servers to the cluster, but when the cluster didn't get created, it got hosed. It's only my speculation - I have no idea.
Thoughts or suggestions anyone?
Thanks,
Cindy
September 29, 2010 at 1:43 pm
FYI - Issue resolved - we needed to disable the cluster service which had started on both nodes.
Cindy
September 29, 2010 at 2:33 pm
cluster.log has gone in Windows 2008, you can generate a log though using the following command
Cluster log /gen /copy "C:\yourpath"
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September 30, 2010 at 6:49 am
Thanks. I didn't know that. Apparently quite a bit has changed - like "move groups" moving from the gui to command line. Just gotta love the "enhancements".
I'll setup the log as you suggested.
Cindy
September 30, 2010 at 10:45 am
it doesn't setup the log, events are now monitored through the event viewer in failover cluster manager. The command below dumps a copy of the log to "cluster.log" for interrogation\support purposes!
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September 30, 2010 at 11:05 am
Yup - I figured this out after I tried it and actually "read" the command 🙂 So far, so good. I'm just about ready to start the SQL server install.
Thank-you for the follow-up!
Cindy
September 30, 2010 at 11:06 am
no problem. Take a bit of time to get used to failover cluster manager before going any further and you'll be golden 😉
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