CLUSTER & Sysprep /Generalize–A MUST! (Isvet Laclaustra)

The beauty of creating a Windows a Cluster can be blurred if your VM Template with Data Center OS was not /Generalized during the Sysprep procedure.

We are now in the process of creating a set of then (10) Clusters using Data Center version of Windows Server. After installing the Feature “Clustering” on all of our servers a best practice is to run the “Validate Cluster Configuration” between the members / pairs of the planned new cluster. To our surprise when this process “Validate Cluster Configuration”  was executed in the servers all our servers returned the error 80070005 report generated. After a few debugging hours we were made aware by Microsoft that our error is dully documented and has a”simple root fix…

Get your source template and re-run the sysprep including the /Generalize to avoid having this issue!

Note: You can have the current machine having the error 80070005 execute the Sysprep /Generalize and soon you will be right on track.

Having FUN while on a demanding schedule!

Isvet Laclaustra