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node server down failover cluster fail to move VM to other node
Make sure you have a cluster witness correctly configured and run the failover cluster validation to make sure everything is in the green.
If the validation shows no errors and all warnings are accounted for, and your cluster witness is configured correctly and visible from all nodes all the time, try your scenario again.
Additionally make sure the storage where you placed vm's configuration and vhd's is visible and usable from all nodes.
I forgot: make sure that all your vms can run on any node. Test this with live migration. Try to live migrate all vms from node to every other node. Do this for every node and every vm. If, for example, you use static RAM in your vm's and there is simply not enough memory available on any other node to start the failed vm, it will not fail over. You should be able to pause and drain any one node at any time to have a consistent failover possible.