Morning,
There was so much done to setup the development cluster, I thought it would be easy to have the two nodes in the cluster cloned. To my surprise, the development cluster was up and happily running on the new vm servers. Stopping resources verifies it is stopping and starting resources on the original cluster. I am not sure how to safely have the two new servers not manage the development cluster and create a new production cluster on them.
I am hesitant to destroy the cluster as I suspect it will destroy the real development cluster. How do I do this? How do I delete the windows cluster software and re-install without affecting the development cluster?
Note that I tried to create a new cluster in the failover cluster manager and specify the new vm cluster servers, but it says they are part of a cluster already. I do not see them listed as nodes. I am not sure how to see what cluster it thinks the new servers are part of or how to not make them part of the development cluster. That might be the path to my solution.