Hello,
we have a two node cluster running server 2012R2, at the weekend we had a power failure and one of the nodes (I presume it was the active node) has a hardware failure and won't come back up. I thought this will be fine because we have another node and that would take on the work - however, in failover cluster manager the it won't connect to the cluster name, or the local node which is running. if I run the command Start-ClusterNode -FixQuorum it shows that the node is in the state of "joining" but never seems to get any further than that. I can manually start the cluster service but after a while it seems to stop.
I believe this is all because the active node is not contactable now I think what I am asking is how to make this remaining node be the authoritative active node....but I don't know what to do to make that happen.....
I would appreciate any help,
thank you
Steve