We got the reservations on the cluster disks resolved

Run powershell as administrator

import-module failoverclusters

Clear-ClusterDiskReservation -Disk 6 -Node node2 -Force

node2 is your cluster node server name

Disk 6 is what you see...

Perry,

We evicted Node 02 from the SQL 2008 Clusterand now on course for testing the P2V on Node 01 now. Once I converted the one node cluster it booted fine...

A VM,One node , 2 instances on that i.e should get the job done

VM with stand alone instance is fine

Yes, this would essentially P2V a single node cluster.my question would that work ?

Pery,

There are 2 Instances which includes two separate SSRS db's.

If there was only one instance it would have been easier,but since we have got 2 instances the idea was to...

I am just looking at the best way to do this.Easy way to do this suggested by some was evicting the unwanted node,remove the cluster service and then P2V

We are using Vcenter and essx

Geez, I was hoping instance could be renamed . Just to confirm Gurus ,you can't do the following even in 2012

sp_dropserver 'Server Name\old_instance_name'

go

sp_adderver 'Server Name\New_instance_name'

go