How To Start Hyper-V cluster Without Quorum
Some time the quorum is on storage disk and in certain case this disk is not mounted there for the culster do not start, to force start the cluster :
Using Powershell
To force a cluster to start without a quorum
- Start an elevated Windows PowerShell via Run as Administrator.
- Import the
FailoverClusters
module to enable cluster commandlets. - Use
Stop-ClusterNode
to make sure that the cluster service is stopped. - Use
Start-ClusterNode
with-FixQuorum
to force the cluster service to start. - Use
Get-ClusterNode
with-Property NodeWeight = 1
to set the value the guarantees that the node is a voting member of the
Import-Module FailoverClusters $node = "Always OnSrv02" Stop-ClusterNode -Name $node Start-ClusterNode -Name $node -FixQuorum (Get-ClusterNode $node).NodeWeight = 1 Get-ClusterNode-Cluster| Format-Table -property NodeName, State, NodeWeight
Using Net.exe
To force a cluster to start without a quorum
- Use Remote Desktop to connect to the desired cluster node to force online.
- Start an elevated Command Prompt via Run as Administrator.
- Use net.exe to make sure that the local cluster service is stopped.
- Use net.exe with
/forcequorum
to force the local cluster service to start.
net.exe stop clussvc net.exe start clussvc /forcequorum
After the cluster start make sure you have a valid quorum settings !
Good Luck