This section describes how to run the Failover Cluster Validation Wizard from the Failover Cluster Management console.
You can launch the tool from the Server Manager dashboard, under Tools and select Failover Cluster Manager.
Note: These steps can be performed on any of the servers that function as nodes in your failover cluster. The steps below are performed on SQLNODE-01.
- In the Failover Cluster Management console, under the Management section, click the Validate Configuration link. This runs the Validate a Configuration Wizard. The following figure shows the Failover Cluster Manager:
Figure 13. Failover Cluster Manager window
- In the Select Servers or a Cluster dialog box, enter the hostnames of the nodes that you want to add as members of your cluster. Click Next as shown in the following figure:
Figure 14. Selecting servers or a cluster
- In the Testing Options dialog box, click Next to run all the necessary tests to validate whether the nodes are ready for clustering as shown in the following figure:
Figure 15. Verifying the testing options
- In the Confirmation dialog box, click Next. This runs all the necessary validation tests as shown in the following figure:
Figure 16. Validation confirmation
- In the Summary dialog box, verify that all the reports are successful. Click Finish to create the Windows Server Failover Cluster as shown in the following figure:
Figure 17. Windows Server Failover Cluster summary