Cluster service failure after AD lockdown...

posted by  mneon (8)  8 months ago (blogs.technet.com)

Users were unable to connect to their shares.  John discovered that the Cluster service wasn't started, and that any attempts to start it resulted in an error 1068.  He attempted to ping the virtual server's IP address and it returned a "request timed out" message.  He got the same error when trying to ping the cluster node's public adapter. 

When he got to the node he found the Cluster service in a Starting state.  He soon discovered that he had no network connectivity to or from either Cluster node, and that their network cards were missing fr