Scripting cluster failover for patching (2008 server not R2)

We have a number of Windows 2008 (not R2) servers running sql. We currectly patch using a third party tool (Shavlik) and would like to automate the process. eg. failover, patch, failback, check status. I started looking at Powershell
but it appears the cluster modules are for 2008R2 and not plain 2008. Anyone have a solution? Thanks.

As noted above, your best option is to upgrade to the latest OS - lots of good reasons to do that anyway. Otherwise, with 2008 you will need to script things with the cluster.exe and wmi commands executed via winrm (if you want to perform them remotely).
You would most likely put as much time, effort, and money into creating something that works in 2008 as it would take to upgrade to the latest Windows Server 2012 R2. And then, by having 2012 R2 in place it prepares you for v.Next which will enable a
rolling upgrade capability within a cluster.
. : | : . : | : . tim

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