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  • Friday, November 06, 2009 4:20 AMMark Welford Users MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     
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    Hi all

    I am attempting to setup a high available cluster with server 2008 r2 enterprise.

    The hardware is an Intel Modular Server with 2 blades.  At present, I only have 1 NIC confirgured on each which I know is an issue but shouldnt prevent the initial setup ?

    The NICS are static IP's 10.0.0.41 and 10.0.0.40 with gateways and DNS all enteredt.  Netbios is enabled on both.

    When it asks for a cluster name, I eneter a cluster name and enter an IP address that is currently not in use - 10.0.0.11

    I have checked DNS and there is no entry for the IP 10.0.0.11

    When I attempt to create the cluster, It almost completes and then fails saying cleanup unsuccessful.

    The shared storage is setup and ready to go and I took it offline before I attempted to create the cluster.  I have two shared LUN's, 1 1GB in size for the Quorom and 1 400GB for the VHD files and the storage passed the config test OK.

    There is probably not enough information here but if someone can help, I can provide whatever you require.

    thanks

    Mark
     

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  • Friday, November 06, 2009 12:11 PMEdwin vMierloMVP, ModeratorUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     
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    Did you run Validation ? and did every test complete ?
     
  • Saturday, November 07, 2009 1:33 AMMark Welford Users MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     
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    Hi Edwin

    I did run validation and I got a warning about the network as I only have 1 NIC on each blade configured.  This shouldnt stop it from completing though should it?
    I also have Hypr V installed on both blades and have machines running, should I stop them before I create the cluster?

    thanks

    Mark
     
  • Monday, November 09, 2009 7:21 AMTim Quan - MSFTMSFT, ModeratorUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     
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    Hi Mark,

     

    Does any Error Event appear in the Event Viewer?

     

    Tim Quan - MSFT

     
  • Monday, November 09, 2009 9:20 PMJohnTonerMVP, ModeratorUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     
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    Did you look through the report at the end of the installation? You should be able to browse this install report in the c:\windows\cluster\reports folder and see why cluster terminated the install
    Visit my blog about multi-site clustering - http://msmvps.com/blogs/jtoner
     
  • Wednesday, November 11, 2009 2:42 AMMark Welford Users MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     
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    Hi

    All it says is unable to successfully cleanup.  Operation returned because the timeout period expired.

    I have tried several times now but get the same results.

    Any guidance would be appreciated

    thanks
     
  • Wednesday, November 11, 2009 6:06 AMTim Quan - MSFTMSFT, ModeratorUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     
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    Hi Mark,

     

    Can you please paste the results in the report file and the Error Event log?

     

    Tim Quan - MSFT

     

     

     
  • Friday, November 13, 2009 2:19 AMTim Quan - MSFTMSFT, ModeratorUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     
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    Hi Mark,

     

    How are things going? We have not heard back from you in a few days and wanted to check on the status of the issue. Please let us know how things turned out.

     

    Tim Quan - MSFT