Apply SP1 to SQL 2012 clustered on a Windows 2012 failover cluster

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

Hello Matt,
This is still available, though I'm not sure where you remember it being. You can choose individual resources in a resource group and can also do it at the resource group level as well. It's in the properties of each level and allows each resource or resource
group to be allowed to run on only the nodes selected.
Here is the KB on it (though they use the command line):
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958734
I'd patch the instances on the nodes that the instance is not currently active (if more than 1), pause the node and reboot if necessary. Continue rolling until services need to be moved or your patched nodes outweigh your unpatched nodes at which point I'd
move the services and patch all remaining nodes.
-Sean
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SQL 2012 Failover Cluster to 2014

Hi,
we have recently purchased SQL 2014 std edition with SA (VLSC), one of our guy downloaded SQL 2012 instead of 2014 by mistake and installed as failover cluster. I wanted to ask whether should I upgrade to SQL 2014 or uninstall SQL 2012 and install 2014 fresh.
In 2014, secondary server used for failover support does not need to be separately licensed for sql server as long as it is truly passive and primary SQL server is covered with active SA.
We have installed 2012 in other fashion, 4 cores on primary and 4 cores on secondary, now we just want to assign 8 cores to primary and 8 to secondary to get 2014 benefit. Is it possible using upgrade or a fresh install is required.
I Appreciate inputs from experts.

Hello,
You can upgrade the cluster using the instructions provided on the following article.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms191295.aspx
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SQL 2012 failover cluster\mirroring VS AlwaysOn for VDI?

Hi, we have to build high availability SQL 2012 cluster for VDI and we have two options. One option is to build a server cluster with combination of failover and mirroring and other option is to build failover cluster with AlwaysOn.
We are not sure which option to chose. We have contacted Microsoft support to provide us some documents and instructions for failover\mirroring combination but they have send us instructions for AlwaysOn option.
What would be best way to build high availability cluster for VDI? Also, since first option is very complicated, we would appreciated if someone could provide us with some documentation for it (how to build it, what to look out for, etc.) because that is the probably the option we are going to use.
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How to Perform Forced Manual Failover of Availability Group (SQL Server) and WSFC (Windows Server Failover Cluster)

I have a scenario with the three nodes with server 2012 standard, each running an instance of SQL Server 2012 enterprise, participate in a
single Windows Server Failover Cluster (WSFC) that spans two data centers.
If the nodes in the primary data center are unavailable due to data center outage. Then how I can able to access node in the WSFC (Windows Server Failover Cluster) in the secondary disaster recovery data center automatically with some script.
I want to write script that can be able to check primary data center by pinging some IP after every 5 or 10 minutes.
If that IP is unable to respond then script can be able to Perform Forced Manual Failover of Availability Group (SQL Server) and WSFC (Windows Server Failover Cluster)
Can you please guide me for script writing for automatic failover in case of primary datacenter outage?

please post you question on failover clusters in the cluster forum. THey will explain how this works and point you at scipts.
You should also look in the Gallery for cluster management scripts.
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FTP in Windows 2012 Failover Cluster

Hi,
Understand that Windows 2012 is having much improved Failover Clustering features,however i have faced issues when i configured FTP in Windows 2012 Failover Cluster.
1) As per the process configured the shared disk for FTP data path.
2)Installaed FTP feature in both Nodes of Clustert
3)Finally created the Generic Service in Cluster Roles for FTP Service.
After the configuration i found everything working fine but when i try to failover the FTP role found that FTP resource is not moving smoothly. Also i observed that Microsoft FTP service gets in to "starting" mode in the destination Node. To run the FTP
resource Microsft FTP service should be in Started mode.
This happens only when we try to failover else it works fine if you start freshly.
Have any one tried this? Any clue about such issue ?
Regards:Mahesh

Hi,
In earlier versions of Internet Information Services, Microsoft provided generic resource monitor components to support high availability Web server instances by using the Microsoft Clustering infrastructure. However, custom code was needed to fully realize
the potential of this solution. Also, the generic scripts that Microsoft provided did not satisfy customer needs.
From IIS 7 to configure IIS in a clustered environment by using Windows Server failover clustering, you have to use a custom (scripting) code to enable such a high availability scenario.
Note:
We recommend that administrators carefully evaluate the use of Network Load Balancing (NLB) instead of using failover clustering as the primary and preferred method for improving the scalability and availability of Web applications that have multiple servers
that are running new IIS (from IIS 7) . One benefit of NLB is that all servers can actively participate in the concurrent handling of incoming HTTP requests. Another benefit is that in an NLB IIS environment, it can be much easier to support rolling updates
and rollbacks while still providing high availability of Web applications.
To configure high availability for IIS FTP servers using Failover Clustering:
Install the Web Server role on all cluster nodes.
Install the Failover Clustering feature on all cluster nodes and create the cluster.
Set up a file share that will be used for IIS shared configuration
Configure the IIS shared configuration on all cluster nodes
Configure Offline Files for IIS Shared Configuration on all cluster nodes
Configure the FTP site and specify the location of its content on one cluster node
Configure high availability for your FTP site by creating a generic script in Failover Cluster Manager
For more detailed configuration procedure please refer to following MS articles:
Note: I didn’t find IIS 8 in Windows Server 2012 failover cluster configuration guide, below guide was published for II 7 in Windows server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, but its basis configuration procedures should also apply to Windows Server 2012.
How to configure FTP 7.5 for IIS 7.0 in a Windows Server 2008 failover cluster
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974603
Configure IIS Network Load Balancing
http://www.iis.net/learn/web-hosting/configuring-servers-in-the-windows-web-platform/network-load-balancing
Deploying IIS on a Failover Cluster
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/clustering/archive/2009/06/01/9674799.aspx
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Virtual Domain Controllers in 2012 Failover Cluster. Time Skew

Hi All,
Not sure if this is the correct space for this topic, however i'll give it a go anyway.
We have a 2 Hosts (HP DL385) Windows Server 2012 Failover Cluster.
Storage is provided by a 12 Bay NAS with iSCSI connections (This is catering for CSV's and Quorum)
We are running 2 Virtual domain controllers (2008R2)
The issue we experience is that if the cluster goes down, and when it comes back online the time on the domain controllers (one or the other or both) skews by any where up to 3 days which causes havoc for our office until we can resync clocks with the PDCe.
Time Synchronisation Integration Service is disabled on both Domain Contollers
A few days back we need to reboot the storage on the cluster, and the tasks performed were as follows:
-Power off all virtual machines (Graceful Shutdown)
-Put all CSV's into maintenance mode
-Offline Disk Witness to Quorum
-Rebooted Storage (Waited until it came back online)
-Online Quorum Storage (Successful)
-Bring CSV's out of maintenance mode (Successful & Browsable)
-Power on all Virtual Machines (Successful)
This is where the time Skewed and caused headaches. The time for some reason went to 2 days 11hrs in the past on 1 domain controller.
With this DNS lookups failed to work, Cluster services failed, Cluster Aware Updating Failed, RDP to VM's (and Virtual Hosts) by DNS Name failed (Date time error)
There doesn't seem to be anything in the EventLog except for date/time stamp on events being 2 days in the past.
Now this is why i'm not sure if the issue is cause by fail over clustering, or is an issue with the domain controllers.
Any advice regarding this or if anyone has seen this behaviour before any info would be great
Thanks
Rob

Hi Rob,
Does both this two DCs on your cluster VM and there have not others DCs? Microsoft recommends that files for virtualized domain controllers be placed on non-CSV
disks, Non-CSV disks can be brought online without authentication. Because non-CSV disks can be brought online more easily.
For virtual machines that are configured as domain controllers, it is recommended that you disable time synchronization between the host system and guest operating
system acting as a domain controller. This enables your guest domain controller to synchronize time from the domain hierarchy, please confirm your PDC time is always correct.
The related KB:
Running Domain Controllers in Hyper-V
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/d2cae85b-41ac-497f-8cd1-5fbaa6740ffe(v=ws.10)#deployment_considerations_for_virtualized_domain_controllers
Things to consider when you host Active Directory domain controllers in virtual hosting environments
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/888794?wa=wsignin1.0
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How to Perform Forced Manual Failover of Availability Group (SQL Server) and WSFC (Windows Server Failover Cluster) with scrpiting

I have a scenario with the three nodes with server 2012 standard, each running an instance of SQL Server 2012 enterprise, participate in a
single Windows Server Failover Cluster (WSFC) that spans two data centers.
If the nodes in the primary data center are unavailable due to data center outage. Then how I can able to access node in the WSFC (Windows Server Failover Cluster) in the secondary disaster recovery data center automatically with some script.
I want to write script that can be able to check primary data center by pinging some IP after every 5 or 10 minutes.
If that IP is unable to respond then script can be able to Perform Forced Manual Failover of Availability Group (SQL Server) and WSFC (Windows Server Failover Cluster)
Can you please guide me for script writing for automatic failover in case of primary datacenter outage?

You are trying to implement manually what should be happening automatically in the cluster. If the primary SQL Server becomes unavailable in the data center, it should fail over to the secondary SQL Server automatically. Is that not working?
You also might want to run this configuration by some SQL experts. I am not a SQL expert, but if you have both hosts in the data center in a cluster, there is no need for replication between those two nodes as they would be accessing
the database from some form of shared storage. Then it looks like you are trying to implement Always On to the DR site. I'm not sure you can mix both types of failover in a single configuration.
FYI, it would make more sense to establish a file share witness in your DR site instead of placing a third node in the data center for Node Majority quorum.
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Windows 2012 Failover Cluster - File server role (vCO)

Hi,
I wonder if anybody can shed some light on a query i have.
A windows 2012 failover cluster will be built in AD domain example.uk. Cluster File server roles will be created and will reside in this domain also.
We also have a requirement to run a cluster file server role in the child domain off secure.example.uk. Is this possible? or do the file server roles and related vCO's have to reside in the same domain as the cluster (CNO).
I know the CNO can be used to create the VCO but could a prestage a VCO in the child domain of secure.example.uk.
Mark

Hi Mark,
By default CNO will create
VCO automatically in default domain computer OU, we generally use the
KISS principle to place the CNO and VCO to the same OU, and as far as I know there no known design document indicate the VCO can be placed in different domain, therefore I suggest you place the CNO and V CO at same OU.
More information:
When Creating a New Resource or Role in Windows Server 2012 R2 Failover Cluster, the Network Name Fails to Come Online or Failed to Create Associated Computer Object in Domain
http://blogs.technet.com/b/askpfeplat/archive/2014/11/17/when-creating-a-new-resource-or-role-in-windows-server-2012-r2-failover-cluster-the-network-name-fails-to-come-online-or-failed-to-create-associated-computer-object-in-domain.aspx
CNO Blog Series: Increasing Awareness around the Cluster Name Object (CNO)
http://blogs.technet.com/b/askcore/archive/2012/09/25/cno-blog-series-increasing-awareness-around-the-cluster-name-object-cno.aspx
How to Create a Cluster in a Restrictive Active Directory Environment
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/clustering/archive/2012/03/30/10289577.aspx
Prestage Cluster Computer Objects in Active Directory Domain Services
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn466519.aspx
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Proper WSUS+SCUP on SCCM 2012 SP1 with SQL 2012

Been pulling my hair out a new build.
System:
Windows 2012
SQL 2012 SP1
WSUS 4.0
SCUP 2011
WSUS itself will synch if I set source= Microsoft Update.
SCCM SUP will synch with if I set source= Microsoft update.
SCUP will not connect to "update server" in this config.
SCUP will not connect if I check connect to local update server. Nor will it when i try to connect to itself as a remote (ie local host or fqdn in Update server screen)
Now whats weird is if I throw a proxy on my spare machine and aim WSUS and SCUP to use it try SUP to FQDNof SCCM host:8530....I can connect
The problem is with the proxy in play I cannot download Dell catalogs as it used FTP not HTTP (Adobe will download though)
Every so often just for fun it will throw "request for principal permission failed.
Anyone that has this working can you please tell me what you have on each of the SUp. WSUS and SCUP screens

Try running SCUP as administrator. This is usually necessary when SCUP is installed on the ConfigMgr/WSUS server and UAC is enabled. heres a guide that may help: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyEGWSFWyy0 using Group Policy is the easiest wat to deploy
the certificates as well.
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SQL Server 2012 Failover Cluster configuration questions

Hi,
I have few questions on , SQL Server 2012 Failover cluserting pleasse provide suggestions:
1) In SQL Server 2012 is there a configuration for active / passive Failover Cluster installation? If so how is it done? if you could provide any links or articles that would help.
OR
Is this been replaced by Always ON Availability Groups?
2) Also in our environment we have done active/active installation but at a time my understanding is only node has the ownership to the shared storage versus both the nodes, is that correct? If not please provide an explanation?
Any additional information would be valuable in clearing my doubts?
Thank youy
Malini=

Hi malinisethi,
If you install SQL Server in a cluster and configure Active-Passive cluster. In the first node, select “New SQL Server Failover Cluster installation” option , when we are installing Active-Passive cluster, we have to specify one virtual/network name. (Note:
For Active-Active clustering you have specify different network names as per the number of nodes). on the other nodes is similar to installing on the first node except that we have select the Add Node to a SQL Server failover cluster option from the initial
menu. For more information, there is a similar issue about SQL Server 2008 Active-Passive/Active-Active cluster installation, you can review the following article.
http://sqldbpool.com/2009/10/07/sql-server-2008-active-passive-cluster-installation/
About Active/Active SQL Cluster, two clustered SQL Server instance are created in different nodes. Then apply Active /Active configuration of both instance. There is an example about creating an Active/Active SQL Cluster using Hyper-V. you can review the
following article.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/momalek/archive/2012/04/11/creating-an-active-active-sql-cluster-using-hyper-v-part2-the-clustered-instances.aspx
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Windows server 2012 failover cluster error: Cluster resource 'Virtual Machine Configuration ... of type 'Virtual machine configuration in clustered role ... failed.

I have two windows 2012 host server that are clustered using windows failover cluster feature. Each server is hosting four VMs. When migrating from Host2 to Host1, the migration failed with the following error:
Cluster resource 'Virtual Machine Configuration SCPCSQLSRV01' of type 'Virtual Machine Configuration' in clustered role 'SCPCSQLSRV01' failed. The error code was '0x569' ('Logon failure: the user has not been granted the requested logon type at this computer.').
When this happens, the VM that I was migrating can no longer be started even on the original host. The only remedy is to restart the host server.
Any suggestion on resolving this problem?
Thanks
Ikad

Thanks. The article referred to above gives the solution to my issue. There is a group policy that is applied to the OU where the host servers were placed. Doing gpupdate /force temporarily removes the problem. Unfortunately the NT Virtual Machine\Virtual
Machines account is a special account that cannot be added like other accounts and granted the log on as a service right. The thread
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverhyperv/thread/d56f2eae-726e-409a-8813-670a406593e8 contains how it can be added which is by creating a group and running the command
Net localgroup VMTest “NT Virtual Machine\Virtual Machines” /add
to add it to a local group VMTest. VMTest is then assigned the right to log on as a service.
Ikad

SQL Server 2012 Failover Cluster Setup

I have to set up a Lab Test environment for SQL Server 2012 with failover clustering. What are the most cost effective specifications for H\W & S\W. AFAIK Apart of Enterprise edition, Standard edition can support failover clustering for upto
2 nodes with one node in passive mode. Somewhere (Here) I got that it is possible to configure SQL Server failover clustering On SQL
Server 2012 Developer edition. Also Is it possible to use Windows 7 Platform with SQL Server 2012 Developer Edition for configuring Always on Failover Clustering. Although I have researched alot, but puzzled. Seeking for experts advise. Thanks in advance.
Pranshul Gupta

Yes you can configure and install in windows 7.. but make sure you have made all the proper updates as per the microsoft suggestion..
Software and hardware requirments for sql 2012
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143506%28SQL.110%29.aspx
http://www.yourdba.com/?p=123
http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/system-requirements/10.2/index.html#//015100000070000000
Developer Edition..
SQL Server 2012 Developer Edition will continue to be part of the SQL Server 2012 family. The Developer edition provides the same feature set as the Enterprise edition. However, it's licensed per developer and can't be used for production work.
Clustering FAQ's
http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2012/02/introduction-sql-server-clusters/
SQL Server licensing :
http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/en/us/future-editions/sql2012-licensing.aspx
http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/en/us/get-sql-server/how-to-buy.aspx
Overview and support :
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc645993.aspx
FCI Failover Cluster Instances (SQL Server)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms189134.aspx
AlwaysOn Availability Groups (SQL Server) -- AG's
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh510230.aspx
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RBS Licensing on a SQL Server Standard 2012 Failover Cluster

I am planning to implement a Sharepoint 2013 installation which is primarily to be used for Document Storage. We are considering using Sharepoint RBS with Filestream with SQL 2012 Standard and as far as I can see on our non-production environments this works
without any issue - i.e. we enable filestream and RBS with Sharepoint and SQL and everything works as expected on our non production systems. In non production we have single SQL Server nodes.
However, in production we have planned to have a 2 node SQL 2012 Standard failover cluster.
On this page, it indicates
"To run RBS on a remote server, you must be running SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise on the server that is running SQL Server where the
metadata is stored in the database."
My question is : Am I entitled to use RBS with Filestream on a SQL 2012 Standard Failover Cluster, or is SQL Enterprise required.
If enterprise is required, we will have to remove the RBS. I have reviewed the links below, but cannot see a definitive answer from a licensing perspective
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/76e86936-b7ee-4571-aa02-f45b80867515/which-edition-for-sql-server-2008-r2-with-sharepoint-2010-no-foundation?forum=sharepointadminprevious
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/2b04979f-c619-48a4-b0e4-3add00345fb0/sql-server-2008-edition-comparisons-in-terms-of-high-availability-rbs?forum=sqldisasterrecovery

Hi antrimcoaster,
Indeed, in Microsoft official document, all SQL editions (Express, Standard, Enterprise…) of SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008R2 support RBS (Remote Blob Store), however, as your post, if you run RBS on a remote server, we recommend you use Enterprise
version especially you want to deploy Remote BLOB Storage with SQL Server 2012 in Production environment. Usually, Enterprise edition is more for mirroring, supporting more RAM/CPU, and custom RBS providers and multiple nodes cluster.
If you had setup and configured RBS successfully with SQL Server 2012 standard, and now you need to want to upgrade to SQL Server 2012 Enterprise, I recommend you reconfigure your blob store, you can review the following similar article.
https://community.dynamics.com/ax/b/axdilip/archive/2012/10/22/configuring-and-implementing-sharepoint-2010-rbs-remote-blob-storage-with-sql-server-2012-part-1.aspx
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SQL 2012 AlwaysOn cluster IP not moving after failover, causing database to be read-only

SQL Server Cluster Name: SQLDAG01
SQL Server Cluster IP: 10.0.0.50
Cluster Listener IP: 10.0.0.60
Node 1 Name: SQL01
Node 1 IP: 10.0.0.51
Node 2 Name: SQL02
Node 2 IP: 10.0.0.52
Everything is fine when SQL01 is the primary. When failing over to SQL02, everything looks fine in the dashboard but for some reason the cluster IP, 10.0.0.50, is stuck on node 1. The databases are configured to provide secondary read access. When executing
a query on SQLDAG01, I get an error that the database is in read-only mode. Connectivity tests verify that SQLDAG01, 10.0.0.50, connects to SQL01 even though SQL02 is now the primary.
I've been Googling this for the better part of the day with no luck. Any suggestions? Is there a Powershell command force the cluster IP to move to the active node or something? Also I'm performing the failover as recommended, from Management Studio connected
to the secondary node.

This was the answer, it had been setup to use the cluster name instead of the application name. Whoever installed Sharepoint connected it to SBTSQLDAG01 instead of SHAREPOINT01. Once we changed Sharepoint to connect to SHAREPOINT01, the failover worked as
expected. We did have a secondary issue with the ARP cache and had to install the hotfix from http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2582281 to resolve it. One of the Sharepoint app servers was failing to
ping the SQL node after a failover, the ARP entry was stuck pointing to the previous node. This article actually helped a lot resolving that: http://blog.serverfault.com/2011/05/11/windows-2008-and-broken-arp/
One thing I did notice is that the SQL failover wizard does not move cluster groups "Available Storage" and "Cluster Group", I had to move those through the command line after using the wizard. I'm going to provide the client with a Powershell script that
moves all cluster groups when they need to do a manual failover. This also happens to be why the Sharepoint issue started, "Cluster Group" is what responds to the cluster name SBTSQLDAG01. Moving that group over to the node that has the active SQL cluster
group also made it work properly, but using the application name is the correct method.
Thanks everyone for all your help. Although the nitpicking about terminology really didn't help, that was a pointless argument and we really could have done without it. Yeah I know 2008 called is "Failover Cluster Manager" and MSCS is the "2003 term" but
really, they're basically the same thing and we don't really need to derail the conversation because of it. Also, If you look at the screenshot below you can clearly see "AlwaysOn High Availability" in SQL Management Studio. That's what it's called in SQL,
that's where you do all the work. Trying to tell me it's "not a feature" is wrong, pointless, and asinine, and doesn't get us anywhere.
Sorry it took so long to get back, I was off the project for a couple weeks while they were resolving some SAN issues that caused the failover to happen in the first place.

Windows 2012 Failover Cluster

Having a problem creating 2 node cluster. I launch FCM, begin the process of adding nodes. Node 1 goes in fine. Node 2 gives an error which is, "unable to connect to xxx.xxxx.com via WMI. This may be due to networking issues
or firewall configuration.
Node 1 and 2 are virtual. Have tried them on the same metal and on different metal.
Any advice would be much appreciated.

Hi shageman0304,
Unfortunately, the available information is not enough to have a clear view of the occurred behavior. Could you provide more information about your environment. For example,
the exact text of any error? When this problem occurs the system log record information, screenshots is the best information.
If you have install any third party software on this node please disable or exit them, please install the Recommended hotfixes and updates for Windows Server 2012-based failover
clusters updates then monitor this issue again.
Recommended hotfixes and updates for Windows Server 2012-based failover clusters
http://support2.microsoft.com/kb/2784261
After install the updates, if the issue still exist please performing the following steps:
1. Open Task Manager on the affected server and check if the wmiprvse.exe is running if not please enable the wmi service.
2. Restart wmi service.
3. Restart the server.
Please rerun the validation test then post the error part, that report will quickly locate the issue.
More information:
Unable to launch Cluster Failover Manager on any node of a 2012/2012R2 Cluster
http://blogs.technet.com/b/askcore/archive/2013/12/17/unable-to-launch-cluster-failover-manager-on-any-node-of-a-2012-2012r2-cluster.aspx
Event Logs
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc722404.aspx
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