Full System Recovery: Recovering a Cluster on Windows Server 2008 and Later
You can recover a cluster on Windows Server 2008 clients in one of the following ways:
- Restoring Cluster Services
- Authoritative Restores
- Non-Authoritative Restores
Restoring Cluster Services
On a Windows computers, the cluster services will be restored automatically in any of the following scenarios:
Situation |
Corrective Action |
Cluster files on witness disk/Quorum Disk) are corrupt |
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Cluster database (ClusDB) on a single node is missing or corrupt |
Healthy nodes will be contacted and an updated ClusDB will be downloaded. |
Complete loss of Witness Disk/LUN occurs |
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Authoritative Restores
Perform the Authoritative Restore of cluster on Windows 2008 or later if you alter the cluster configuration or delete a large number of resources. You can perform the authoritative restore only if all cluster nodes and services are running.
Non-Authoritative Restores
A non-authoritative restore is performed in the following scenarios:
- Single node in a cluster fails completely (no boot) and the shared disks are still functional
- Complete loss of all nodes and storage
To restore the original cluster configuration, perform the following tasks:
Related Topics
Recovering a Non-Domain Controller
Recovering a Domain Controller
Recovering RIS Server with SIS Common Store
Last modified: 1/9/2018 8:20:26 PM