You should be able to force it to start - there are some command line switches for the service to force quorum and such.
The print config is stored in the registry and my gut says that it's in the Cluster replicated part which would make me think the queues might go away. The DHCP database is stored in a JET database so presumably you could restore that elsewhere. This would be easy to test in a VM - create a one node cluster, add DHCP and Print with a scope and a single print queue and then nuke the cluster and see what happens. Thanks, Brian Desmond [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> w - 312.625.1438 | c - 312.731.3132 From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Melvin Backus Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2015 6:25 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [NTSysADM] What if - Destroying a 2008R2 cluster We had an OMG event in a remote office yesterday when one of the local "IT guys" rebooted a clustered server while the other node was disabled for maintenance. The maintenance event was to correct a problem on a SAN unit which is mirrored via Veritas Enterprise Administrator. Things were running normally until the reboot, but when they rebooted the server it lost connectivity to the witness disk for the cluster as well as some other data volumes. Since the witness disk is unavailable the cluster server is offline so DHCP and Print services won't run. Since we're going to have to destroy the cluster anyway as part of the migration, we're thinking about doing it now to simply some of what needs to be done, but we don't have the DHCP/Print configurations readily available. (Yes, it's all backed up, but restoring is taking longer than anticipated) If we destroy the cluster, does anyone know if the DHCP and Print configuration data gets retained by the host server? If so it should be trivial to recreate on another server as long as we can see it. -------------------- Melvin Backus | Sr. Systems Engineer | Byers Engineering Company | 404.497.1565 Service Desk | 404-497-1599 | http://servicedesk.byers.com -- There are 10 kinds of people in the world... those who understand binary and those who don't.
