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Ryan H
Asked: 2010-11-23 13:53:36 +0800 CST

Use DHCP to set Failover Cluster IP Address

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I have a Hyper-V Failover Cluster running using manually-configured IP addresses. On this cluster, among other machines, I have two Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Machines running failover cluster, intended for use in clustering file services. The 2 Cluster Host machines for the file server receive their IP addresses properly through DHCP. However, the cluster is NOT able to receive an IP through DHCP.

I find the following error in the cluster log:

Event ID 1240: Cluster IP address resource 'Cluster IP Address' failed to obtain a leased address.

What might be causing this problem? How can I resolve it?

dhcp hyper-v windows-server-2008-r2 failovercluster

1 Answers

  1. Firstly what do you mean by "properly through DHCP"? it's generally a bad idea to use DHCP for servers

    Secondly it's a really bad idea to use DHCP for cluster VIPs.

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