For earlier versions of clustering there was an ability to prevent a resource from failing to a particular node. I used this when service packing clusters to ensure that no SQL instances would attempt to fail back to the node I was patching. That ability doesn't seem to exist anymore. ANd pausing or stopping a node causes rule failure in the SP setup.
Has anyone successfully performed this patching and are there any best practises or tips to follow?
Regards, Matt Bowler MCITP, My Blog