handling Persistent Reservation failures in Windows 2012 R2 and Windows 2012

Run Cluster Validation Wizard:

https://technet.microsoft.com/library/jj134244#BKMK_RUN_TESTS

 

If you notice the following errors in the Cluster Validation Wizard output as following, please use the following remediation plan.

 

Physical Disk <DBReports>: PR reserve failed

Physical Disk <DBReports>: ResHardDiskArbitrateInternal: PR Arbitration for disk Error

Physical Disk <DBReports>: OnlineThread: Unable to arbitrate for the disk

Physical Disk <DBReports>: OnlineThread: Error bringing resource online.

 

Remediation Plan A:

1. Look up the disk number in disk management. Clear the persistent reservation on a disk in a failover cluster. RunClear-ClusterDiskReservation -Disk <UInt32[]> [-Node] <StringCollection> -Force powershell command to clear the reservation on disk.

  

Remediation Plan B:

1. Shutdown all nodes but keep only one node active

2. Restart that active node while other nodes are shutdown

3. Start clustering with /fq.

   1. net.exe stop clussvc

   2. net.exe start clussvc /forcequorum

4. Verify that disks are accessible in disk management in the active node, and start other cluster nodes

Comments

• Anonymous
  August 29, 2016
  Does this solution apply when we are trying to validate the nodes for clustering. You know in this case the cluster has not even been created. Plan A did not work for me.
  • Anonymous
    September 04, 2016
    Solution applies when we are trying to validate the nodes for clustering that already exists. Not during the initial creation.