Hello everybody,
I'm getting a kinda weird error. For me it's quite new to install/configure Failover Cluster at all. So please don't rip my head off...
Situation: I have two similar Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise. Both are configured to build a cluster with two volumes to share. One is for Quorum the other for any other storage. Bother server (IP 127.0.0.11 and 127.0.0.12) are available via the cluster IP 127.0.0.10. The cluster name is SQLCluster. So far, nothing wrong I hope (besides the fact, that both need another network interface to communicate in a direct way, but that's another topic I guess).
Now go on to the SQL Server installation. It's a 2008 R2 Standard Server. I installed it first on the 127.0.0.11 (which holds the "Node and Disk majority". The first "problem" I get is during install at the point "Cluster Resource Group" where neither the Cluster Group nor the Available Storage are marked as qualified. Maybe this is my first point of failure? This is followed by Cluster Network Configuration where I specify the network settings but there's no Address given and I cannot change it.
The rest is quite common, the data directories are pointing to the second volume to hold the storage.
In the end I got this message:
Configuration action failed for feature SQL_Engine_Core_Inst during timing Startup and scenario Startup.
The cluster resource 'SQL Server (cluster_SP)' could not be brought online. Error: The resource failed to come online due to the failure of one or more provider resources. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80071736)
The configuration failure category of current exception is ConfigurationFailure
Configuration action failed for feature SQL_Engine_Core_Inst during timing Startup and scenario Startup.
Microsoft.SqlServer.Configuration.Cluster.ClusterException: The cluster resource 'SQL Server (cluster_SP)' could not be brought online. Error: The resource failed to come online due to the failure of one or more provider resources. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80071736) ---> System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x80071736): The resource failed to come online due to the failure of one or more provider resources. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80071736)
at Microsoft.SqlServer.Interop.MSClusterLib.ClusResourceClass.Online(Int32 nTimeout)
at Microsoft.SqlServer.Configuration.Cluster.ClusterResource.Online(Int32 timeout)
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
at Microsoft.SqlServer.Configuration.Cluster.ClusterResource.Online(Int32 timeout)
at Microsoft.SqlServer.Configuration.SqlEngine.SQLEngineClusterFeature.Cluster(ClusterNetworkName networkName, ClusterResource[] disks, ClusterGroup clusterGroup, String instanceName, String groupSid, String[] nodes)
at Microsoft.SqlServer.Configuration.SqlEngine.SQLServerFailoverCluster.CreateEngineFailoverCluster(ClusterNetworkName networkName, String instanceName, String groupSid, ClusterGroup clusterGroup, ClusterPhysicalDisk[] diskResources, String[] nodes)
at Microsoft.SqlServer.Configuration.SqlEngine.SQLServerFailoverCluster.CreateFailoverCluster(String instanceName, String groupSid)
at Microsoft.SqlServer.Configuration.SqlEngine.SqlEngineSetupPrivate.Install_Startup_ClusterComplete(EffectiveProperties properties)
at Microsoft.SqlServer.Configuration.SqlEngine.SqlEngineSetupPrivate.Install(ConfigActionTiming timing, Dictionary`2 actionData, PublicConfigurationBase spcb)
at Microsoft.SqlServer.Configuration.SqlConfigBase.SlpConfigAction.ExecuteAction(String actionId)
at Microsoft.SqlServer.Configuration.SqlConfigBase.SlpConfigAction.Execute(String actionId, TextWriter errorStream)
Exception: Microsoft.SqlServer.Configuration.Cluster.ClusterException.
Source: Microsoft.SqlServer.Configuration.Cluster.
Message: The cluster resource 'SQL Server (cluster_SP)' could not be brought online. Error: The resource failed to come online due to the failure of one or more provider resources. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80071736).
Inner exception:
Exception: System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException.
Source: Microsoft.SqlServer.Interop.MSClusterLib.
Message: The resource failed to come online due to the failure of one or more provider resources. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80071736).
Watson Bucket 1 Did anyone already see this and may help me?