Hello Everyone,
I have 2-2012 servers that I'm trying to setup clustering with. Individually they can create their own 1 node cluster no problem, adding to an existing cluster doesn't seem to work either. If I destroy one cluster and try to add it to the other existing cluster it fails with timeout. I use the Validate a Confirguration Wizard it says everything checks out successfully (warning on Storage and Network for minor stuff), then fails once it tries to create the cluster with the following:
An error occurred creating cluster 'SERVICES'.
This operation returned because the timeout period expired
Tried going into ACU, then giving full access under Security to the computer accounts by prestaging a cluster name as well. That didn't seem to help even after it enabled the disabled computer account when forming the cluster. I can see if I try to join one to an existing node that it joins, never comes "UP" then gets evicted after a timeout.
Suggestions on where to go next would be much appriciated. It's intersting to me since I've setup multiple clusters on 2008/R2 and am currently running clustered Hyper V 2012 servers as the hosts for these without any issues, so right now 2 clusters are in the environment without any problems. Started a debug log during the creating of the Failover Cluster, didn't see anything that caught my attention as useful information. Not quite sure where to go next.