If the User Account Control dialog box appears, confirm that the action it displays is what you want, and then click Continue. In the Failover Cluster Management snap-in, if the cluster you want to manage is not displayed, in the console tree, right-click Failover Cluster Management, click Manage a Cluster, and then select or specify the cluster that you want.
If the console tree is collapsed, expand the tree under the cluster you want to manage. Expand the console tree under Nodes. Right-click the node that you want to restart, click More Actions, and then click Stop Cluster Service. Right-click the node that you want to restart, click More Actions, and then click Start Cluster Service. Opening Event Viewer and viewing events related to failover clustering To open Event Viewer and view events related to failover clustering: If Server Manager is not already open, click Start, click Administrative Tools, and then click Server Manager.
On the Filter tab, in the Event sources box, select FailoverClustering. Select other options as appropriate, and then click OK. To sort the displayed events by date and time, in the center pane, click the Date and Time column heading. Finding more information about the error codes that some event messages contain To find more information about the error codes that some event messages contain: View the event, and note the error code.
Click Start, point to All Programs, click Accessories, click Command Prompt, and then type: NET HELPMSG errorcode Verify To perform this procedure, you must be a member of the local Administrators group on each clustered server, and the account you use must be a domain account, or you must have been delegated the equivalent authority.
Verifying that the Cluster service is started on all the nodes in a failover cluster To verify that the Cluster service is started on all the nodes in a failover cluster: To open the failover cluster snap-in, click Start, click Administrative Tools, and then click Failover Cluster Management. This allows ample time for you to learn and love PowerShell. PowerShell provides numerous benefits over standard command line interfaces, including easily customizable scripts and the dynamic use of variables.
Using PowerShell on a Core cluster, you can directly run cluster Validation and generate dependency reports, without needing to manage the Core node through a UI-based remote machine. This blog post will provide an overview of PowerShell with Failover Clustering. If you work for an organization which partners with Microsoft, try contacting your Technology Account Manager TAM to see if they can provide you with access.
If your organization is enrolled in the Technology Adoption Program TAP you may also have access through this channel. The Beta build will be available very shortly for deployment and testing. PowerShell is going to be the cluster scripting language for the future — and you have the opportunity to influence its design and use for the next decade during the Beta feedback period.
Some high-level areas of feedback for the PowerShell commands cmdlets which we are looking for include the following:. Open PowerShell on your machine through right-clicking and selecting Run as administrator. The design goal was for feature parity between the Failover Cluster Manager GUI and PowerShell, so any operation can be performed on both with cluster migration being the exception, unavailable with PowerShell.
To get a complete list of the cmdlets, run the following command: Get-Command -Module FailoverClusters. The following is a list of Failover Clustering cmdlets for the Beta release. Note that these are subject to change.
