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How to Properly Shutdown a Failover Cluster or a Node

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Elden_Christensen
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Mar 15, 2019
This blog will discuss the proper process for shutting down an individual node in a Windows Server 2012 R2 Failover Cluster or the entire cluster with all the nodes.  Note:  While the steps outlined ...
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Mar 25, 2024

When following this procedure my Server 2019 cluster would crash until I found that I needed to put the server that I am going to reboot into Maintenance mode after draining the roles.   

 

If the server is running Windows Server 2019 or Azure Stack HCI, version 20H2, run the following cmdlet as administrator:

Get-StorageScaleUnit -FriendlyName "Server1" | Enable-StorageMaintenanceMode
 

If the server is running Windows Server 2016, use the following syntax instead:

Get-StorageFaultDomain -Type StorageScaleUnit | Where-Object {$_.FriendlyName -eq "Server1"} | Enable-StorageMaintenanceMode

After the server reboots immediately take it out of maintenance mode

 

If the server is running Windows Server 2019 or Azure Stack HCI, version 20H2, run the following cmdlet as administrator to disable storage maintenance mode:

Get-StorageScaleUnit -FriendlyName "Server1" | Disable-StorageMaintenanceMode
 

If the server is running Windows Server 2016, use the following syntax instead:

Get-StorageFaultDomain -Type StorageScaleUnit | Where-Object {$_.FriendlyName -eq "Server1"} | Disable-StorageMaintenanceMode

 

Then Resume your server into the Cluster.