I am trying to get a new Windows 2008 R2 cluster to work on two VMware servers (VMware ESXi 5.0.3) and am experiencing some form of timeout issue during the creation of the cluster according to the logs.
All validation checks pass successfully, whether trying to create a single node or dual node cluster, but the same error message is seen when creating the cluster. I have tried various suggestions found but none of them have made a difference. In an effort to further diagnose the issue I enabled the following diagnostic logs:
- FailoverClustering
- FailoverClustering-Manager
- FailoverClustering-Client
The only useful error I can find is in the FailoverClustering-Client log which reports an error 'Couldn't resolve tcp binding to cluster' for each physical node to be part of the cluster.
In order to further diagnose the cause of the issue, I am looking for any options for increasing logging when attempting to create the cluster. Is there a way to increase the logging to see what the actual timeout is occurring with?
Alex.