I will try to make this as simple as possible. Here is the setup.
2 node cluster setup as Node and Disk majority. Both servers ServerA and ServerB were online and functioning previously. Sometime back there was a disk corruption and the cluster ran a chkdsk. The disk issue was resolved.
Since then one of the nodes ServerA is showing up as Down (red x) within Failover Cluster manager. ServerA was rebooted serveral times, but it still fails to be recognized as part of the cluster and come online.
Here is what I have checked.
On Server A. When I run cluster node command it shows.
Node Node ID Status
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ServerA 1 Joining
ServerB 2 Down
On Server B. When I run cluster node command it shows. ServerB is running all applications and services.
Node Node ID Status
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ServerA 1 Down
ServerB 2 Up
I think ServerA is trying to join the cluster but cant lock the Quorum disk or see ServerB. Why would this happen and how to fix this.
Cluster service on both servers is at automatic and in running state.
Nothing has changed on the firewall and i can ping both public and private ips from both servers.
Thanks.