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We had a job adding a new node to a Cluster the other day. During this process, I encountered the error you would see in the following screenshot.
This server was not a newly installed server. It was a server that was installed before I entered this environment. When I asked the relevant friends, they said that this server did not join any Cluster before.
In addition, Windows Server Failover Cluster services were not installed. I had set up myself. For these reasons, I was surprised to have encountered this error as well.
I’ve been able to bypass this error using the Powershell commands from the screenshot below.
1 2 | import-module failoverclusters clear-clusternode |
An excerpt from Tim Radney’s solution.
Important note: I ran the above command on the node where I received the error.
Thanks for this. Same thing happened to me and I spent ages trying to fix it before I found this.
Very helpful!