Microsoft Clusters can be managed using Powershell cmdlets. To get a specific information on the cluster like the quorum type, this cmdlet can help: Get-Cluster -Name ClusterName | Get-ClusterQuorum Reference Get-ClusterQuorum Syntax Get-ClusterQuorum [-InputObject ] [-Cluster ] [] InputObject
Get all cluster groups in an AD domain and their current owners
Monitor a resource failover on a cluster
Enumerate all cluster resources and their possible owners
This script will help you to enumerate all cluster resources and their possible owners on the cluster name “ClusterVirtualNode00”. Get-Cluster -Name ClusterVirtualNode00 | Get-ClusterResource | Get-ClusterOwnerNode References Get-ClusterOwnerNode Syntax Get-ClusterOwnerNode [-InputObject ] [-Cluster ] [-Group ] [-Resource ] [-ResourceType ]
Get all cluster resources and their dependencies
This script uses the cmdlet Get-Cluster to get all cluster resources and their dependencies Command : Get-Cluster -Name ClusterName | Get-ClusterResource | Get-ClusterResourceDependency References Get-Cluster Syntax Get-Cluster [-Domain ] [] Domain Get-Cluster [[-Name] ] [] Name Detailed Description This cmdlet
Set possible owners on core cluster resources
This script will set possible owners on core cluster resources (IP Address and Name) Script : Get-Cluster -Name ClusterName | Get-ClusterResource -Name “IP Address”,”Name” | Set-ClusterOwnerNode -Owners ClusterNode01,ClusterNode02 References Get-Cluster Get information about one or more failover clusters in a
Set a cluster resource dependency
This script set a cluster resource dependency on a file server clustered resource Script : Get-Cluster -Name ClusterName |` Get-ClusterResource -Name “FileServer-(FileserverResourceHostname)(Cluster Disk 10)” |` Set-ClusterResourceDependency -Dependency [“FileserverResourceHostname”][and [“Cluster Disk 10”]] Reference (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee461029.aspx) Set-ClusterResourceDependency Specify the resources that a particular