We had a 2 node active passive sql 2005 64Bit Std windows cluster running on Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise 64bit. One of the nodes is being retired. It has been successfully evicted from the cluster and is no longer operational.
Now we are trying to add in the replacement node and it is failing. We are following these steps to add the node:
SQL is installed on the new node
Shared Storage is allocated on the new and current nodes
The new node is added to the cluster.
From there we follow: http://www.databasejournal.com/features/mssql/adding-node-sql-server-failover-cluster-1.html
Everything is fine up to step #20
at that point we receive the following error:
Setup failed to start on the remote machine. Check the Task Scheduler event log on the remote machine.
In researching the error, everything points back to the solution being this:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/910851/en-us
The problem with that is, no one is logged into the other node either through console or RDP. What else can be the cause of this?
Thanks.